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My 10 year old son wants me to write a game with and since I am not very experienced in the area,I would like to have some algorithm advice if anybody can provide it ;) I have a 10 x 10 grid of cells on the screen and I would like each one of them to highlight when the mouse moves over it and of course dim again as the mouse leaves the area. Each cells is an object with member variables x,y,width and height, so I created a list of 100 cell objects, each with the appropriate values in the member variables as needed to display it 10 x 10. The question I have is: Is there an algorithm or some advice some of you gurus can provide me with to effiently determine over which cell the mouse pointer currently is? The only way I can think of doing it, is to traverse through the object list every time and work out if the mouse_x, and mouse_y falls within the boundaries of a cell, but that seems to be such an inefficient way of doing it, because it has to be done every time the mouse moves. Any ideas?
