🚀 go-pugleaf

minch@lotka.stanford.edu writes

> I've got some big irregular shapes that I fill with user paths.
> Now I want to find which big irregular shape the mouse is clicked
> in. I look at DPSUserPath and find that dps_ufill is an allowable
> action, but DPSUserPath itself is declared as void. So how does
> the boolean get returned? Presumably it's left on the stack and I
> can maybe pick it up using some dps stack snooper, but is there a
> better way?

Ah, yes, the "in" operators.  Specifically, you're looking for
"inufill".  There are two forms of inufill, depending on how you
want to use the hit detection.  The first form is:

x y userpath inufill bool

The second is:

userpath userpath inufill bool

The first userpath can then be an aperature to be checked for
intersection (say, an aperature around the mouse click - NOTE: you
might as well make this aperature *round*, as it costs almost
nothing in terms of performance, and gives a more natural feel to
selection.)

There will be several ways of using inufill in combination with
DPSDoUserPath, and if you really care about performance, testing
the several variations might be in order.  Since this is off the
top of my head, I'll try and keep it simple so I don't screw up.
This example also happens to require a minimal amount of explanation
:-)

/* Wraps. */

defineps checkfill( | boolean *hit; )
	myPath1 myPath2 inufill hit
endps

defineps putname( char *thename )
	/thename
endps

/* C code calling sequence. */

..
   boolean	answer;
   ...
   putname("myPath1");
   DPSDoUserPath(..., dps_def);
   putname("myPath2");
   DPSDoUserPath(..., dps_def);
   checkfill(&answer);
..

For a much better example, see Chapter 8 of the Purple book.

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