Different region geometry?

Yes, the answer is no ;-)

Everything is based on rectangles only.

Only because I am always curious:
The reason behind your question?

That's what I figured from reading all the documentation.

So the product I work on is a surveillance tracking program where you draw a watchbox around an area on a map and it shows tracks (movement) within the watchbox in the form of little red stars that move around. Part of what I need to verify is that the tracks are only displayed inside the watchbox and don't go outside. The watchbox can be drawn as any polygon ( believe it can't be drawn back into itself so it just needs to be an enclosed area of any shape). So I can draw my watchbox as a rectangle and make my region match it, but that won't verify that the software works with other shapes. For example, I can draw an odd shaped quadrilateral that includes a roads intersection and a parking lot area but I'd have to use a region that has much more area than the watchbox and if a track goes outside the watchbox, it will most likely still be within the region and I would still see it as an observation.

Anyway, that's the deal. Thanks for responding.

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RaiMan proposed the following answer:
Yes, the answer is no ;-)

Everything is based on rectangles only.

Only because I am always curious:
The reason behind your question?

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ok, you are the guy with the onChange observation on the map.

… but I'd have to use a region that has much more area than the watchbox and if a track goes outside the watchbox, it will most likely still be within the region and I would still see it as an observation.

that is true.
But you might ignore matches, that are reported outside such a non-rectangular shape (matchbox) by some algorithm.
I am sure, there are some available libraries, that allow to define such shapes and check, wether a point lies inside or outside.

That's a good point. I'm already figuring out the x,y coordinates of the track that occurred so I can write them to a file and I know what the coordinates of the outside of the watchbox is, so I should be able to figure that out with some math.

Thanks!

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To: Howell, Greg
Subject: Re: [Question #253637]: Different region geometry?

Your question #253637 on Sikuli changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/253637

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RaiMan proposed the following answer:
ok, you are the guy with the onChange observation on the map.

… but I'd have to use a region that has much more area than the watchbox and if a track goes outside the watchbox, it will most likely still be within the region and I would still see it as an observation.

that is true.
But you might ignore matches, that are reported outside such a non-rectangular shape (matchbox) by some algorithm.
I am sure, there are some available libraries, that allow to define such shapes and check, wether a point lies inside or outside.

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This problem is resolved as mentioned above in #4. Closing out the ticket.