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invariant23 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Determining which PShape is under your mouse Mar 30th, 2010, 9:25am   Suppose I have loaded an SVG that is made up of several "path" objects. When the mouse is clicked, I know I can get the current position (x/y) of the mouse. I want to use that information to figure out which "path" PShape is beneath my mouse at that very instant. Any guidance for how this can be done with the Processing API?

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: Determining which PShape is under your mouse Reply #1 - Mar 30th, 2010, 1:08pm   Two possible solutions : 1) checking the distance between the mouse and each segment. 2) using picking (a quick search will give you many results)

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: Determining which PShape is under your mouse Reply #2 - Mar 30th, 2010, 1:09pm   This Topic was moved here from Syntax Questions by antiplastik.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Determining which PShape is under your mouse Reply #3 - Mar 30th, 2010, 2:10pm   Just a precision about picking: it consists in drawing each shape on an off-screen buffer with different colors (one per shape). Thus, if you check pixel color at mouse coordinates, you know which shape is hovered.