Inaccuracies using the Within keyword

[Ray]

Paul, Dunbar, thanks for confirming.

I've reported this.  It's bug 11718 if anybody's interested in following it.

Thanks,

Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software

On 1/27/2014 11:52 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
> Ray,
>
> I can confirm that your findings are correct.
>
> I tried setting the margins to zero, but that made no difference, I also turned off antialiasing, still no difference.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 2014-01-27, at 8:26 AM, Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:
>
>> I've created a triangle (shape of an Egyptian pyramid) with the Freehand Polygon tool, made it opaque, filled it black and put the following script in the stack:
>>
>> on mouseMove
>>    if within(grc "Polygon",the mouseLoc ) then
>>       put ""&the mouseLoc&" - IN"
>>    else put ""&the mouseLoc&" - OUT"
>> end mouseMove
>>
>> As I move the mouse in and out of the black area of the polygon Livecode senses that it is IN the polygon about 5 pixels before it is; that is if I'm hovering the tip of the arrow cursor around either the left or right side of my pyramid.  Hover around the base and it's dead on.  I wonder why?
>>
>> Does anybody have a minute to confirm this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ray Horsley
>> LinkIt!
>>
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