Thanks Tedd & Robert,
Testing the two rects, rather than creating a region, works a treat.

Cheers
Bernie


*** Original message ***
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> During animation, I check for collision by creating a region for one of my
>> moving objects and rects for others with FN RECTINRGN.
>> 
>> Is it safe to repeatedly call the following to create a new region each time
>> the object moves or should I be disposing of the region handle before
>> creating a new one?
>> 
>> humRgn = FN NEWRGN
>> OPENRGN
>> SETRECT(rgnRect,gHumRect.left,gHumRect.top,gHumRect.right,gHumRect.bottom)
>> FRAMERECT(rgnRect)
>> CLOSERGN(humRgn)
>> 
>> Any advice appreciated.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Bernie
> 
> Like Tedd suggested, I would just dispose of it first.
> 
> if humRGN  <> 0 then DISPOSERGN(humRGN)
> 
> and go about your business.
> 
> There may be easier ways to handle what you are doing though.
> 
> If you are tracking sprites, you can just check the sprite's rects for
> intersection at any given time using
> 
> hit = FN SectRect(testRect1,testRect2,iRect)
> 
> If your items are intersecting, then hit will be _True,  and the
> intersecting area will be in iRect.
> 
> Otherwise, you will get a value if hit= _False.
> 
> This avoids the need to create a region.
> 
> Robert