you can check for overlapping circles (naively) with hitTest for each
circle to all the otherones.
whenever there's overlap, call var rect:Rectangle = getRect() for both
objects. if one of them has a lower X and lower Y AND its rect.right and
rect.bottom are greater than the other one, hide the other one...
On 12/24/2008 2:07 PM, huhgawz wrote:
Thanks for you fast response. Your suggestion works but it is not what
I'm looking for. I'm sorry I guess I didn't explain well.
So here I come again:
Taking into account my previous example (the one with a Canvas and
multiple Circles positioned randomly)...I need to hide all those
Circles that are totally overlapped by other Circles.
Could someone help me with this?
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<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Lushen Wu <l...@...> wrote:
>
> huhgawz,
>
> I think most UIComponents subclass DisplayObjectContainer, which has a
> method
>
> getChildIndex <#getChildIndex%28%29>(child:DisplayObject
> <../../flash/display/DisplayObject.html>):int <../../int.html>
>
> so call this to find the child index (basically z-order) of the
> lowest-ordered circle you want to have visible,
>
> then iterate all the Children underneath that index using the property
> numChildren and method getChildAt <#getChildAt%28%29>(index:int
> <../../int.html>):DisplayObject <../../flash/display/DisplayObject.html>
> and set them visible=false
>
> ref:
>
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/DisplayObjectContainer.html
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/DisplayObjectContainer.html>
>
>
> Hope that helps..
>
> Lushen
>
>
> On 12/24/2008 12:50 PM, huhgawz wrote:
> >
> > Let's say you have a /Canvas/ in which you create multiple instances
> > of a /Circle/ randomly positioned. Then you want to know which
> > /Circles/ are underneath the top most /Circle/ (talking in /z-order/
> > terms) in order to hide them all.
> >
> > Could you share an example of this?
> >
> > I would really appreciate any guidance....
> >
> >
>
