Execute command for any button touching a button?

[ColdSnap]

Using the command line

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 if circleCollide(the loc of btn "myButton1",the loc of btn "myButton2",41) then

I can execute an if/then command for two static buttons. Is there a way for this to be more variable?

Something along the lines of

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 if circleCollide(the loc of btn "myButton1",the loc of any other button,41) then

[Dixie]

Hi...

Have a look at 'intersect' in the dictionary

be well

Dixie

[ColdSnap]

Hi...

Have a look at 'intersect' in the dictionary

be well

Dixie

This seems like an excellent solution, tyvm.

[ColdSnap]

Ok Dixie, I have given intersect a shot, and the problem here is that the buttons in question are not actually overlapping, but rather side by side.

Can I define how close together the objects have to be to be considered intersecting?

In stupid talk, I would like to do something like

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set the intersect to -10

so that buttons which are within ten pixels are considered intersecting.

If I cannot do that I suppose I can add invisible edges to that the buttons intersect without looking like they do.

[Dixie]

Coldsnap...

Would this work for you ?... Make your button say, 60 x 60 pixels, make a graphic 80 x 80 and place it over the button ... Set the line size of he graphic to 0, then it will not seem like there was anything around the button... group the button and the graphic. The edge of the group would then give you the 10 pixel margin that you are looking for from the edge of the button.

If you then have two button 'groups', you can then use the intersect function to find out if they are 'colliding'.

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 if intersect (group "buttonGroup 1", group "buttonGroup 2") then doSomething

be well

Dixie