How to draw a line between objects or letters?

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 05:11:18 EDT 2009


Thanks Graig, Mark & Kay,

You helped me a lot and again I learned a lot.
Wish I could do this all day :-)

Thanks!!

Greetings,

William

2009/6/6 Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>

> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:17 AM, William de Smet <williamdesmet at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Yes, they are in different fields.But to make it more difficult: it can
> be
> > images as well that I want to use (Look for the same image?).
> > Maybe this is too difficult to do?
> >
>
> William, the image I get from your description is something for very young
> children, to check they correctly identify a letter or image on the left
> side of the screen with multiple answers, letters or images, on the right
> hand side of the screen. The question letter/image on the left will always
> be in the same place, and the three or four answers letter/images will
> always be in the same place on the right.
>
> If this is sort of what your after then read on, if not, completely forget
> it :-)
>
> Why not use buttons? You can leave the name of all the buttons the same and
> simply set their Label to the required letter or set the Image. With the
> default setting you can test if a student can match A to a, or if you set
> caseSensitive to true you can test for exact matches.
>
> If the buttons don't move then it is simple to draw all the lines in place
> beforehand and simply hide them. When a student presses the right sequence
> of buttons, show the appropriate line (graphic). With a sensible naming
> convention is should be relatively easy to check that the correct graphic
> has been shown. ie if button "three" contains the correct answer then you
> could check that graphic "three" is visible.
>
> Even if the buttons moved, it's pretty easy to determine the location of
> each of the corners, which are the closest corners and draw a line
> dynamically between those corners.
>
> Even if there were far more than just a few buttons involved, ie you wanted
> to do something like a join-the-dots drawing with 50+ connections, and have
> all the connections made in the correct sequence, I think I'd still stick
> with buttons.
>
> HTH
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