# More precise hitTest **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 2, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544 "2003-07-02T00:04:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4491bb/32.png) [@elion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elion)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/1 "2003-07-02T00:04:19Z")
(I think I might have posted something like this before, but I cant remember anything I:-)) I want to know how to make a hitTest thats more precise, as in having the hitTest not activate when the blue box around the movie clips touch, but rather the pixels in them. I know one way of doing this is to cover the outline of the movie clip in a ton of other small invisibal movie clips and have them activate the hit test, but I was wondering if there was a more simple way of doing this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/2 "2003-07-03T02:10:18Z")
_Cough_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/3 "2003-07-03T02:12:46Z")
is it a simple shape? like a circle? or a square? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/4 "2003-07-03T02:16:34Z")
Nope. :whistle: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/5 "2003-07-03T02:18:43Z")
then no, there isn’t a simple way. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/6 "2003-07-03T02:19:11Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/7 "2003-07-03T02:20:55Z")
Wait, how was the maze thingy in the Flash samples done then? :x ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/8 "2003-07-03T02:21:52Z")
what are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/9 "2003-07-03T02:23:39Z")
oh, yeah, thats hittest, but those are simple shapes. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/10 "2003-07-03T02:25:55Z")
How is -that- done then? :x… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/11 "2003-07-03T02:26:23Z")
hitTest. Testing if the square touches the sides. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/12 "2003-07-03T02:27:31Z")
I looked around in the fla and didn’t find any hit test stuff. :x ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/13 "2003-07-03T02:27:54Z")
its there. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/14 "2003-07-03T02:34:56Z")
if (walls.hitTest\*\*(getBounds(\_root).xMax, \_y, true)) \*\* \_x -= 1; } I have no idea what the bold part means :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-precise-hittest/24544/15 "2003-07-03T21:50:52Z")
Doo de doo…