Question about 'within'...

[bogs]

The goal I'm working on is to see if the mouse is within the bounds of the effective rect of the stack to set a blend level of the stack.

The problem I'm having is that as soon as the mouse moves over another object, apparently it is no longer considered 'within' the rect of the stack, even though the object is obviously within the rect of the stack.

For instance, if you have a field, and the mouse moves over it, the mloc is no longer within the rect of the stack (which I admit freely, I don't understand at all).

So I tried to solve that by generating the rect boundary into a variable, then getting the two points of the mLoc and then comparing them, however, apparently 'within' is not the correct function for this (even though the dictionary says it is).

I'm sure someone knows a way to do this, and I hope they will share it here

Edit -
Dictionary example I was referring too is

Examples:
"22,33" is within "22,17,150,200" -- evaluates to true

Code that apparently is failing to register this example -

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on mouseEnter
   put the effective rect of stack "winShape" into lclRect
   put item 1 of the mouseLoc into lclX; put item 2 of the mouseLoc into lclY
   if (lclX,lclY) is within lclRect then 
      set the blendLevel of stack "winShape" to "0"
   end if
end mouseEnter

The debugger *does* stop to evaluate this, but skips immediately to 'end mouseEnter'

The original code I was attempting was

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if the mouseLoc is not within lclRect then set the blendLevel of stack "winShape" to "50"

[Klaus]

Hi bogs,

not sure if at the time of "mouseenter" the loc is already within your rect!?
You could try to SEND the check with a little delay:

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on mouseEnter
   send "check_the_rect" to me in 2 milisecs
end mouseEnter

command check_the_rect
   put the effective rect of stack "winShape" into lclRect
   if the mouseloc is within lclRect then 
      set the blendLevel of stack "winShape" to "0"
   end if
end check_the_rect

And remember that the rect of a stack is in GLOBAL coordinates, but LC objects are in LOCAL coordinates! Maybe that is the problem?


Best

Klaus

[SparkOut]

Not tested, but maybe the original one liner would work using the "screenMouseLoc" perhaps?
(Which seems to be the way Klausimausi is thinking too.)

[bogs]

You are both AWESOME, I give you 2

Some day, if I ever get my head wrapped around this completely, i may faint dead away. SparkOut, that does indeed reduce it back to a one liner. Thank you so much for that

[Klaus]

You are both AWESOME...

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