How to make a square topped, round rect bottomed graphic?

[Roger Guay]

Thank you, Jacqueline. Somehow I missed the screenMouseLoc as being settable. Although it is an ugly hack, it will be fun to play with.

Cheers,
Roger Guay


On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:45 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:08:15 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
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> On 12/4/10 6:03 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
>> Heck, I could do it
>> myself if I could figure out how to get the color of a pixel by
>> location programmatically.
> 
> There's a really ugly hack for that. It's fast though.
> 
>  put the screenMouseLoc into oldX,oldY
>  set the screenMouseLoc to x,y
>  get the mouseColor
>  set the screenMouseLoc to oldX,oldY
> 
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