Identifying objects by their tooltips

[jbv]

why don't you use custom properties instead ?

JB


> 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!