Identifying objects by their tooltips

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 21/11/2005 14:55:45:

> Wow - Xavier - that tip about how to turn off tooltips is
> extremely useful - Thanks a lot.

No big deal, it's in the docs ;) Search tooltip... Look at the
related items ;) Learn 1 feature, discover 3 - 10 more - try not
to recurse ;)

> I have no problem with Drag and Drop nor with drop-targets
> - and when I pull myself together and sort out my website I
> shall pop an example up there.
> 
> I just thought I would share the idea about the tooltips.
> 
> My programs feature jolly little instructions such as "Put
> all the animals in the blue box"
> 
> where the 'blue box' is a drop target and the end-user is
> faced with 20 images of assorted animals and bird that,
> obviously, cannot all share the same name - so have to be
> classified by tooltip.

Sounds like a fun game :) Do the animals go Oink? 

Im on the same side as those who mentioned the custom props.
It's not as hard as you think and they are much more granular.

For example, you can store tooltips in different languages, the
sound link for the animal, animated gifs when you drag and drop
the image, etc...

put the long id of this image into thisimage
put the shortname of thisimage into thisanimal

put the animal["tooltip","english"] of thisimage into thistooltip

or

put the animalinfo[thisanimal, "sound"] of this card into thisanimalsound

set the tooltip of this image to thistooltip
etc...

cheers
Xavier


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