hi guys, i just need a little help, ive created a function using the mouseclick that when a user clicks the mouse it draws a coil on the screen from that specified point. now the problem im having is that i can draw over it by clicking next to it , this is something i would like to stop, when i move the mouse over the coil i would like it to recognise that there is an object there and not be able to draw over it, and also from there i could implement a right mouse button command which would let me rotate the coil.

the question is how would i go about this im totally stuck with this part.

the code for my coil drawing is as follows.




im not sure if this makes much sense to you all out there,

here are the main things that im stuck on,

making the program recognise that there is an object already drawn there so that i can edit the rotation of it in the future and also not allow the program to drawn a new image over it

thanks again

dan.

This post has been edited by jjhaag: 7 Nov, 2007 - 07:46 PM

been doin a bit more thinking on this, would i need to make a object that stores the four corner points of the space that the coil takes up and save them in an array

i.e. array 1(topleft,topright,bottomleft,bottomright) all these saved as x,y and then from here the points could be used to let the program know that there is an object in that specific place???

or is there another way that this would need to be done. is it possible to have four different values stored in a single array ie for coil 1(4 interger values)?

the more i think about this the more im getting confused.. anyhelp would be very much appreciated. maybe not even help with code but how to go about it as im stuck on that bit itself..

thanks again

dan.