How to draw a line between objects or letters?

[William de Smet]

Oops, that is Craig with a C! Sorry!!

2009/6/6 William de Smet <williamdesmet at gmail.com>

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> Thanks Graig, Mark & Kay,
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> You helped me a lot and again I learned a lot.
> Wish I could do this all day :-)
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> Thanks!!
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> Greetings,
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> William
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> 2009/6/6 Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
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> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:17 AM, William de Smet <williamdesmet at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
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>> > 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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