"within graphic" question

[Ken Ray]

If you're willing to do something "hackish", you could do this:

on mouseDown
  lock screen
  show grc "mygraphic"
  put within(grc "mygraphic",the clickloc)
  hide grc "mygraphic"
  unlock screen
end mouseDown

:D

Ken


> On Feb 22, 2021, at 1:49 PM, jbv via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a graphic made of a list of points. This graphic is opaque
> and invisible, its filled property is set to true (according to
> the doc).
> In my card script I have something like :
> on mousedown
>  put within(grc "mygraphic", the clickloc)
> end mousedown
> 
> but it always returns false, even when I click
> inside the clickable area of the graphic...
> What am I missing ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> jbv
> 
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