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

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/15/04 6:14 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> 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.

I think you'll have to scan the groups on mousemove. Something like:

on mouseMove x,y
  repeat with n = 1 to the number of grps
   if x,y is within the rect of grp n then
     get n
     exit repeat
   end if
   -- now "it" contains the group number
end mouseMove

I had to do something similar in my Klondike game and I was afraid it 
wouldn't be fast enough, but there was no noticeable lag. I suppose it 
depends on how many groups you have but it is worth a try.

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