Is it possible to identify when the cursor is within a group?

[Howard Bornstein]

On Jul 15, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

> How about this, off the top of my head, not tested:
>
> on mouseEnter -- in the card script
>   get the name of target
>   if it contains "group" and the number of target = number of groups 
> then
>     -- do stuff here
>   end if
> end mouseEnter

Thanks, Devin.

I've tried all kinds of variations of this, particularly with the 
powerful "on mousemove". The problem is that the engine apparently 
won't respond with any message (mouseEnter, MouseWithin, MouseMove) 
unless the mouse is over an *object* within the group. If it's just 
within the group's rectangle, but not over an object, no message gets 
sent.

I can use the test <if the mouseloc is within the rect of group 
"whatever"> and get the correct response, but I have to already know 
that the group is called "whatever".

Since I'm creating and destroying a variety of groups randomly, I need 
to know which group the mouse is over via some kind of test (the very 
thing I'm stumped on). Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to do 
this if the mouse is simply within the group rect but not over an 
object. There are some fairly extreme approaches to solving this 
problem, but I'm hoping for a simple solution.


Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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