Identifying objects by their tooltips

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Hi Richmond

you can turn off tooltips by setting the tooltipdelay global variable...

but im not sure what is the question for the rest...

You seem to have drag and drop mastered... or?

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 21/11/2005 14:13:25:

> 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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