Balloons work in the same way in GXY views and Lightspeed views.
For more information about creating, customizing and adding balloons, see How to add balloons to a view.
To work with balloons in a GXY view, use TLcdGXYBalloonManager, the GXY view equivalent of TLspBalloonManager in a Lightspeed view.
Figure 1. An example of a balloon