Test hit area for polygon?

programming flash
1

I’ve got a movie that lets the user create several polygons by clicking points.

Is there a way to find out if the user rolls over the actual polygon??

I tried using:

myVars = threat_mc0.hitTest(this._xmouse, this._ymouse);

but that returns “true” if the user rolls over the bounding rectangle area of the polygon, and I only want to test if they’re within the actual fill of the polygon…

Thanks!!

2

Take a look at this, this is to test collision of odd shaped objects:)

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/advanced_collision.htm

3

Cool tutorial, but I’m doing something a little different, so this doesn’t really help much.

First, the user is drawing the points of the poly (which makes drawing the little boundary rects problematic) and AS is doing a fill. Then, the user has to click on an area within the bounds of that poly, so testing to see if the rects hit won’t work.

Any ideas?? I attached my test .fla (just trying out different hit/rollover tests) in case it’s any help.

Thanks!!

4

I think I got it…I attached the new fla, but, basically, I just used the script

if(shape_mc.hitTest(this._xmouse, this._ymouse, true)){
 myVars = true;
}else{
 myVars = false;
}

and it works!

Thanks!!