Just in case: I think you can also simulate a mouse event at (x, y) and see what element replies, but this has a number of disadvantages compared to Matthew's method. Laurent <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Matthew Flatt <<a href="mailto:mflatt@cs.utah.edu" target="_blank">mflatt@cs.utah.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There's currently no such method. You would have to search through the hierarchy using each window<%>'s `get-x', `get-y', and `get-size'. <div><div class="h5"> At Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:17:08 -0600, Kieron Hardy wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know what the equivalent of find-snip in pasteboard% would be > for containees within containers? > > I'll looking to be able to get the GUI component at a particular (x,y) > within a container. I thought I'd seen a function that would do what I > need, but in looking through the documents I can't find it. > > If there is no such function, would the best approach be to find the > inner-most (most-contained?) containee that has an extent covering that > particular (x,y)? > > Cheers, > > Kieron. </div></div>> ____________________ > Racket Users list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div>