rectangle contains point

[bob smith]

So, I have a rectangle class as follows:

public class My_Rectangle {
double x, y, width, height;
AffineTransform aft;

Anyone know a good strategy for checking if a point is in the rectangle?

The main difficulty is the transform.

[markspace]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=computational+geometery

Seriously, it's a big subject. I don't have any easy answers.

[Eric Sosman]

I'll assume that x/y/width/height represent an untransformed
rectangle, and that you want to test whether the point is inside
the quadrilateral formed by transforming the rectangle with aft.
If that's the question, I see two approaches:

- Transform the rectangle and represent the result as a
Polygon, then use Polygon's contains() method.

- Inverse-transform the point and test whether the transformed
point is inside the original rectangle.

If that's not the question, please explain more fully.

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Eric Sosman
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[Jeff Higgins]

John B. Matthews provided a strategy for this
in a reply to another of your recent posts.

[bob smith]

Excellent ideas. I went with inverse transform, and it works.

Thanks.