ShapeButton clickable area to follow the shape

General JUCE discussion
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Hi all I'm trying to get a clickable zone of a ShapeButton class to be exactly what the path describes.

For example if I have a round shaped path in the ShapeButton, it should receive clicks if the mouse if above the ellipse, not in the rectangle bounds area (which is always a rectangle I believe?)

Thanks a lot for your help.

Silvere

 

 

2

If you have access to the Path, perhaps you could use the Path::contains() function to check if a mouse down or mouse over is inside the Path and handle that accordingly. I'm not sure of the specifics for your case, but I'm pretty sure it's possible.

3

You’d override hitTest and return true or false depending on if the x, y co-ordinate is contained in the Path.

Rail

4

Ahh really? That's much easier than I thought it would be. :)

5

Thanks guys I'll try this today!

6

It works perfectly cheers

7

Correct me if i’m wrong, but if i want to create a class which derives from juce::shapebutton it is not possible to get the right behaviour overriding hittTest() since the shape object is private, hence it is not possible to use shape.contains(x,y,tolerance):
this is gives an error:

bool hitTest(int x, int y) override
{
     return shape.contains(x,y,0.1f);
}

how exactly should i implement a custom hitbox the right way for a shapebutton?