Hello,
What you can do is that make a polygon of every shape of say n points.
When the pendownevent is there use the clipping algo for the point
As for the database it will just take a very small space

Manish


>From: "Stan Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Non-Rectangular Imagemaps
>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:00:09 -0400
>
>I'm looking for general advice on how to tackle the imagemap task.
>
>The functional requirement for a Palm app I'm working on involves
>imagemapping over photographic images.  For instance, the Palm could show a
>full-color bitmap of a room, and I'd want to make an imagemap that would
>know when you tapped on any piece of furnature in the picture.  Random
>objects in a photograph are very non-rectangular shapes, too, and that adds
>complexity.
>
>I'll have all of the images at compile time and I'm brainstorming ways to 
>do
>this.  I'm thinking of storing polygons in a Palm database, and if a user
>taps inside a polygon, the program would know what object in the picture 
>the
>tap belonged to.  I'd like to make sure this is not
>wasteful of the Palm device's resources.  I'm sure some methods for
>imagemapping lend themselves to more efficient algorithms.  Another
>consideration is
>how easy it would be for me to populate the database of polygons or
>whatever.  There could end up being a lot of rather complicated shapes to
>imagemap.
>
>Any ideas for implementing imagemaps of this sort would be very helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>Stan
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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