Re: Tooltip text to Clipboard ?
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- Subject: [mg110974] Re: Tooltip text to Clipboard ?
- From: John Jowett <john.m.jowett at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:10:04 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <i0i1jr$hoj$1@smc.vnet.net>
Someone sent me a private answer to this. I'm not sure why he didn't
post it here so I will not give his name. Here is the solution, not
exactly as I envisioned it but it does solve my problem:
a very useful feature of EventHandler is that it can appear inside
Graphics or Graphics3D. So you can do something like this and then
click on the disks:
Dynamic[tmp]
tmp = {};
Graphics[
{Hue[#/20], Tooltip[EventHandler[Disk[{#, 0}, 1],
"MouseClicked" :> (AppendTo[tmp, #])], #]} & /@
Range[0, 20, 2]]
Thanks to that helpful person (who can of course claim the above by
posting a reply).
John
On Jul 1, 2:27 pm, John Jowett <john.m.jow... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an application in which various objects are displayed in a
> graphic as rectangles. To see their names I use Tooltip. What I would
> like to do is implement a method to visually select one of them with
> the mouse. If there was a way to get the text label from a Tooltip
> into the clipboard, that would do it. I could then paste it into
> another expression where I want to use it.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this ?
> Thanks,
> John Jowett