Mapping screen for mouse

[justsomeguy]

@justsomeguy or @mdijkens


As I said this is interesting but for clarification: This is all done at run time that you run the graphic in a picture editor and create colored areas then find what color the mouse is on?

It must be to handle moving boxes I would think? 

I do see the advantage of being able to get the odd shapes left for rectangles being overlapped.

If I'm understanding your question correctly, I see no problem with moving boxes. The hidden screen in merely a stencil of the areas that you are wanting the mouse to be sensitive to. They could be updated at runtime. I do this with the GUI demo that uploaded earlier. 

The "color" would have to homogeneous across the stencil of a particular button or control, that way you always get the same value when pressing the button.

Effectively this in nothing but a large look up table. Its just convenient to use the same commands to create it as you do to draw your GUI.  

To me, this is way more complicated than running a couple If Then lines on boundaries. Move the x,y top right box corner, no problem!

If you only have a few GUI items, then by all means 'IF' 'THEN' on boundaries are the way to go.  But, if your GUI requires a ton of controls, it might get unwieldy pretty quickly. Because, I'm a bit of feature creep, I try to write my code to scale.