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Zaphod Beebledoc
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Old May 2nd, 2014, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by mirtos View Post
i would think if you predefined the selection after selecting the pin (theres another thread about doing that with a polygon tool, then the database would simply have to have a list of the pixels revealed and tie it to a pin.
I would think that's the easiest way of doing it.

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Originally Posted by mirtos View Post
the only problem with this, is this could end up being quite a large table. so maybe in this case, it would be limited to squares, or circles, something that can be easily programatically defined?
I hadn't thought about the amount of data needed to remember this, but if, as you say mirtos, it was restricted to simple shapes, you could vastly reduce the data. Squares could be Start x,y to End x,y, and circles could be x,y Radius.

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