Re: [pygame] Pygame Problem Solving 1

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lamonte Harris wrote:
> So I was thinking if I made an invisible rect that moved when the mouse 
> moved then I left clicked and it would get the current surface position 
> of the rect, then it would run a function to see if that current 
> position matches any of the map squares at the bottom of the screen then 
> the " self.cmap" variable would update.

That sounds more complicated than necessary. There's no
need for an "invisible rect" -- just get the mouse
coordinates and test them against the map rects using
the collidepoint() method.

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