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From: rieman@tigger.colorado.edu (John Rieman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: get object<s> at loc x,y
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Date: 20 Jun 89 20:12:06 GMT
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Reply-To: rieman@tigger.colorado.edu (John Rieman)
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Is there any way in hypertalk to get the types and id's of objects
covering a specific location?  For example, I'd like to write

   put objects at 200,300 into msg

and have

   card field id 30, card button id 42

appear.

I can loop through all the objects in the card, get their rect's,
and check to see if the point of interest is within each rect.  Is
their a more efficient way that I've missed?

-john

John Rieman
U. of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
rieman@boulder.colorado.edu