SCI 1.1 - Detecting click on non-transparent portion of view - polgons?

[gumby]

Is there any way to detect what the color of a pixel is (or the index # of the palette) when clicking on a view?  I have several views that are very large and irregularly shaped and I'd like it so that the view only responds to a click when that click isn't on a transparent portion of it.

If not, I was thinking about solving this need with creating polygons on-the-fly that match the placement of the view on the screen.  Anyone see any gotchas this this approach?  One potential one that comes to mind is that I don't think I want to use any of the existing polygon types, unless maybe PTotalAccess would be appropriate?

[lskovlun]

Is there any way to detect what the color of a pixel is (or the index # of the palette) when clicking on a view?  I have several views that are very large and irregularly shaped and I'd like it so that the view only responds to a click when that click isn't on a transparent portion of it.

IsItSkip kernel function detects whether a pixel in a cel is transparent. Usage something like:

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(if (IsItSkip (view loop cel (- (event x?) (candidate nsLeft?)) (- (event y?) (candidate nsTop?))) ...then...)(more code/checks are needed to avoid garbage results)
This code gets the x and y of the event being processed from an event variable, and the top/left corner of the view you're testing against. IsItSkip returns a simple TRUE if the pixel is transparent, FALSE otherwise.
This unfortunately will only work on the skip (transparent) color and not other colors.

Requires the LSL6 interpreter.

[gumby]

Thank you Lars, greatly appreciate the guidance.  From an implementation perspective, the template game already handled it in Actor.sc.  All I had to do in my code was set the signal for the views to $1000.

[gumby]

Follow up: The template game code doesn't work out-of-the-box with scaled views however.

In Actor.sc, I changed the onMe method of the View class to first check to see if the view is scaled and if it is compute the scale factor for x and y and use that in the IsItSkip check:

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(method (onMe param1 param2 &tmp temp0 temp1 xScaleFactor yScaleFactor a b)
(if (IsObject param1)
(= temp0 (param1 x?))
(= temp1 (param1 y?))
else
(= temp0 param1)
(= temp1 param2)
)
(cond
((& signal $0080) 0)
(
(and (not (IsObject onMeCheck)) (& signal skipCheck))

    (if (!= scaleX maxScale)
        (= a (CelWide view loop cel))
        (= b (- nsRight nsLeft))
        (= xScaleFactor  (+ (/ (- a (/ (+ b 1) 2)) b) 1))
     else
        (= xScaleFactor 1)
    )

    (if (!= scaleY maxScale)
(= a (CelHigh view loop cel))
(= b (- nsBottom nsTop))
        (= yScaleFactor  (+ (/ (- a (/ (+ b 1) 2)) b) 1))
     else 
        (= yScaleFactor 1)   
    )
   
    (if
(or
(not (if (or nsLeft nsRight nsTop) else nsBottom))
(and
(<= nsLeft temp0)
(<= temp0 nsRight)
(<= nsTop temp1)
(<= temp1 nsBottom)
)
)
(not
(IsItSkip
view
loop
cel
(* (- temp1 nsTop) xScaleFactor)
(* (- temp0 nsLeft) yScaleFactor)
)
)
)
)
(else (super onMe: temp0 temp1))
)
)

EDIT: Modified to include rounding

[Kawa]

Makes sense that it wouldn't, IsItSkip works on arbitrary view cels, not on View instances.

[gumby]

It does, yeah.  Just wanted to document it here just in case it helps someone else out in the future.