Hover and Leave are great for testing the mouse for collision, what I'm wondering about is testing just some arbitrary point for collision.
I know our elements have top, left, width, height (curiously the Shoes::Image element lacks this?) but I'm thinking along the lines of hit detection against the non-transparent parts of an element. :) For a flow, that would means space not covered by children would not hit detect. Ideally for art or text or images with transparency, the parts you can see through would not hit detect. I'm building a simple race game and it's just everything would be so much easier if the track were just an image with transparency where it's OK to drive :) Culling together a huge data structure describing the boundaries of a track will be a bummer, but I suppose that's what will be needed. See, my point is the idea is fairly awexome, and for every fairly awexome idea there's about a 40% likelyhood that you implemented it already and forgot to document. ;) Thanks! - - Jesse On Jan 25, 2008 1:26 PM, why the lucky stiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:39:52PM -0800, Jesse Thompson wrote: > > I wonder if you can query if a point is covered by another object, for > > example, if it's inside or outside the mask? > > Most elements in Shoes have `top`, `left`, `width` and `height` > methods which reflect the actual position of that element. > > You can also attach event methods to most elements, though I just > tested with masks and it looks like it's missing some events. > Ideally, you should be able to attach `hover` and `leave` methods to > masks. > > Some kind of hit test method would be nice, though, sure yeah. > > _why >
