"Snap to" an overlapped object

Hiya

I have a circle and a line.

When the circle is near the line I want it to snap to the line.

I've tried to do this by making the circle a bigger circle, which means the overlap occurs sooner.

That bit works.

I can't figure out how to centre the circle over the line, or rather the point on the line where the overlap occurred, thus making a "snap" effect.

Heylp!

If you want it to snap to certain points along the line why dont you make image points on the line. Then you can easily get the nearest one...

The lines are drawn dynamically at any width, anywhere :)

Sry thought you are talking about sprites

Have you tried looping the circle towards the line until they intersect, and then backing up one step?

Perhaps you could upload a simple capx to illustrate the issue?

I'm not sure I quite understand what you want to do, but try the pin behavior.

What I was trying to do, especially for touch, is work out what's near my pointer rather than having to be pixel-perfect aligned with my pointer. And if I am near, have all dependant events behave exactly as if I were dead on top of the object.

It's ok though, done things a totally different way instead. :)

docs.google.com/file/d/0B-6JjcHcczubZGc1RGtDbF9Dbnc/edit

silkc2 Perhaps something like that? Though I am using the mouse object, It should work just fine if you swap out that with touch.