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 __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
