# Need help making hitTest read object, not bounding box

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-hittest-read-object-not-bounding-box/217893
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [March 2, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-hittest-read-object-not-bounding-box/217893 "2007-03-02T19:03:57Z")
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### Author: ![Joyelisabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Joyelisabeth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Joyelisabeth)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-hittest-read-object-not-bounding-box/217893/1 "2007-03-02T19:03:57Z")

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Pretty much that’s it. I’m doing a grad school project and am rather new to Flash. I’ve found some good tutorials on hitTests, but I’m making a game and need to specify the boundary. I haven’t found out how to do that. If anyone can help, I’d appreciate it very much! Thanks!

JE