Can I traverse an array of position data within a touch event to see if my touch hits a certain button?
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1 year ago
Hopefully the thread title isn't too confusing... What I've done is placed a rect, which I am treating like a button, and checking to see if the touch event happens within it's boundaries. I then want to traverse an array of Strings that I already have established and see if any of the country names in that array match the title of the button I pressed (The title gets it's String from currentCountries[0][0], so I used it in the comparison).
So I'm curious... can I search an entire array of Strings (countries[] is 232 Strings long) within an event method to see if any of them contain the String I'm looking for?
void touchDown(int ID, float xPos, float yPos, float xWidth, float yWidth){
if((xPos > titleRowPlotX1 && xPos < titleRowPlotX2) && (yPos < titleRowPlotY1 && yPos > titleRowPlotY2)){
for(int i = 0; i < countries.length; i++)
if(countries[i] == currentCountries[0][0])
{
println(currentCountries[0][0]);
showCountries[i] = !showCountries[i];
print(countries[i]);
}
}
}
If anyone is curious, I am ultimately trying to get an event method which will work for touching or clicking a row within two columns of country names. This will turn on or off an accompanying graph of data for that country; effectively this will work as a filter for the graph. Right now, I am just trying to get one, simple button to do this.
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