Telling if a Button overlaps

[RobAMacAF]

I am making it that when they click the form it adds a button. Sometimes however if they click to close to another button then it makes them overlap. Is there any easy way to tell if the buttons over lap or not? I was thinking of making a function that will run and return true or false if they overlap or not. The buttons are all Size 30,30.

My initial thinking was take the location of the current button, then subtract the location of the new button. If it is between -30 and +30 then that means they overlap. But I can't get it to work for the life of me.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

This is the code I TRIED to use

private bool OverLapped(Button clickedButton)
{
foreach (Button ifButton in this.Controls)
{
if (ifButton.Name != clickedButton.Name)
{
if (clickedButton.Location.X - ifButton.Location.X < 30&& clickedButton.Location.X - ifButton.Location.X > -30 &&clickedButton.Location.Y - ifButton.Location.Y < 30&& clickedButton.Location.Y - ifButton.Location.Y > -30 )
return false;
}
}
return true;
}





Thanks alot.

Rob

[SammyB]

Just use the ControlsOverlap function in https://bytes.com/showthread.php?t=351400

[RobAMacAF]

Wow SammyB, thanks SO much. I did a basic search and didn't come with any thing. Not sure how I missed it. That worked WONDERFULLY!

SammyB For El Presidente!