A modest proposal for a new property

[Richard Gaskin]

Colin Holgate wrote:

 > The way that this problem is handled in sort other tools is to have a
 > definable hit area for each control (usually those would be buttons).
 > You can set the idle, over, and pressed versions of the button’s
 > image, and also you can set the hit area image.
 >
 > LiveCode already has a way to do most of that, couldn’t the hit area
 > be another entry I the inspector’s icons section?

This seems like a viable option, easy to use for a wide range of 
use-cases and presumably within reasonable cost for the engine team to 
implement, since it would be a variant of the existing code used to 
calculate hit regions from the alpha channel.

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  Richard Gaskin
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