Identifying objects by their tooltips

[Mathewson]

So I am working on some EFL programs for very young
children and ended up with a lots of drag and drop images -
now I could spend lines and lines of code of the sort:

if the name of it is "COW.gif" then do TIDDLEY POM

identifying each image individually - tedious, memory
hungry and inefficient.

Now I may have reinvented the wheel - notwithstanding this
might be a happy trick to share with the 'basic educational
stack' crowd to which I proudly belong:

if you have a class of objects to be dragged and dropped
(or somesuch) set the tooltip of all of them to some
'invisible' text such as 3 spaces and then use the
following:

if the tooltip of it is "   " then do WHAT YOU FANCY

Now, my next problem is to turn off tooltips so that they
don't produce blocks of colour under my cursor!

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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