Although there is one scenario where one has to use Mike's looping "within"-approach (adjusted to collecting, not exiting the repeat):
If the controls in question (may be all) have some overlapping areas: controlAtLoc((x,y)) reports only the control at (x,y) with the highest layer. > JLG wrote: > You could also try controlAtLoc() which would avoid the loop. > MB wrote: > on mousemove > -- just using control number for the quick example > put 1 & cr & 2 into objectList > if the mouse is down then > repeat for each line tLine in objectList > if within(control tLine,the mouseloc) then > put tLine into tResult > exit repeat > end if > end repeat > end if > if tResult is not empty then > put tResult > else > put "no result" > end if > end mousemove _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
