At 03:41 am 12/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 7:31 PM +0200 on 6/3/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>>Will a click event on an unusually shaped object be generated for the
>>>rectangular bounding box of the shape or specifically within the bounds of
>>>the shape?
>>>
>>>I see the latter to be hard to implement.
>>
>>Dylan,
>>
>> it's not that hard. Initial hit-testing is done with object's rects for
>>speed reasons, but when we have a button whose Rect has been hit, we can
>>use API calls to determine whether the point was in the shape. If there is
>>no support for this kind of hit-testing, we could as a last resort draw the
>>object's custom shape into a bitmap and fill it black, then we'd just have
>>to check whether that pixel is black or white. If it's white we get rid of
>>the pixMap and resume checking rects.
>
>Didn't my message about polygon hit testing get through?
Well I got it and your way sounds much better than doing a pixMap or API call.
Dylan Just
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