[Davidov541]

i have seen it in places on the web, but i need someone to help me because i can't find it anymore... i need to figure out a way to find out if a mouse click is within a hexagon which i have already drawn. i have included the code i use to create the hexagon, if anyone could help me, i would be more than appreciative. memory is at a premium, so any memory savers would help as well! thanks!

protected void drawHexagon(int x, int y, Graphics2D page, Color c) {
int xarray[] = {30 + x, 60 + x, 60 + x, 30 + x, x, x};
int yarray[] = {y, 16 + y, 44 + y, 60 + y, 44 + y, 16 + y};
Polygon hexa = new Polygon(xarray, yarray, 6);
page.setColor(c);
page.fill(hexa);
page.setColor(Color.black);
if (c != Color.blue) {
page.drawString(randInt(), 25 + x, 30 + y); //
counter++;
}
page.draw(hexa);
hexXCoordinates[z] = xarray;
hexYCoordinates[z] = yarray;
z++;
}

[bpmurray]

First, you need to make sure your class implements mouselistener, then you need to add a call to addMouseListener(this). Of course, this now means that you have to have the 5 mouse methods in your class:
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){}
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){}
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e){}
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e){}

You'll want to react to at least one of these, so the trick is to pick up the event and see if this is within your polygon. You can get the position of the click from getPoint (or getX and getY), and you may want to apply translatepoint() to these values.

To then check if the point is within the polygon, you need to check that it contains the point, i.e. use: if (hexa.contains(e.getPoint())) { blah, blah}.

[Davidov541]

ok thanks alot, i did not know that contains was a method of hexa... as im creating this game, another problem im noticing is that whenever say the msdos window gets put on top of the game play screen, the screen doesn't repaint itself. I know with applets there is a repaint method, is the same true for a swing application, and if it is, how would i use it? thanks alot for putting up with me and my newness to swing.

[bpmurray]

Hmm - it should really paint itself. FYI, there's a lot of information on Sun's site - see http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...swing/TOC.html.