powers.WBST139@XEROX.COM (09/22/87)
If one has a screen with say, 50 or 60 items on it ranging from line objects to rectangle, circle, and bitmap objects how would one go about doing real estate tracking? What I want to do is track the mouse and highlight each element as it is passed over. I could put everything in an independent window (widgetized) and ask for enter and leave events but doesn't this get me into problems since windows are square. Will it mess up circles and other strange shapes allowing them to be selected even though I haven't really touched them? Or worse yet, if two circles are very close the bounding windows could overlap. I could always do the tracking manually by getting all mouse movement events and checking if the mouse in on an object explicitly but something tells me that this could be slow. Any brilliant ideas out there in toolkitland? Mike p.s. So thats why those widget buttons are square! (Come to think of it, so is the clock) powers.wbst139@Xerox.com