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# Assistant

Assistant group elements help you creating interactive hints for your Web or Desktop application.

Hint window consists of the following:

1. Hint text. May contain text, HTML or web page url;
2. Hint window;
3. Hint window border;
4. Component highlight rectangle.

Window coordinates can be specified in absolute X and Y (highlight rect invisible) or based on Web or Desktop component link (highlight rect visible).

Window size can be specified in element properties. Desired window position (TOP, BOTTOM, LEFT\_TOP etc.) also specified in element properties..

Hint text. If you choose either HTML or page URL the hint window will show page content. If you choose plain text you may specify font family, font size, font color, bold and italic in element properties.

Background, border and rectangle colors also can be specified in properties.

You may also may make the screen fade when you show hint. In order to do so just check Fade property.


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