What is the best way to find which NSPoint another NSPoint is closest to?

Question

I have 4 NSPoints, which are 4 corners of a rectangle

Now I have another NSPoint, which is where the mouse goes down (mousedown_nsp).

What is the best way for me to find the closest NSPoint (out of the 4 rectangle corner NSPoints) in relation to mousedown_nsp?

I was thinking of just doing a comparison to find the distance between mousedown_nsp and the other 4 NSPoints, then choosing the smallest distance, but I feel like there has got to be a better way.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Perhaps something like this (this assumes a non-rotated rectangle):

NSPoint tl = ... // top-left corner
NSPoint tr = ... // top-right corner
NSPoint bl = ... // bottom-left corner
NSPoint br = ... // bottom-right corner
NSPoint pt = ... // the point

NSPoint center = NSMakePoint((tl.x + tr.x) / 2.0, (tl.y + bl.y) / 2.0);
NSPoint closest;
if (pt.x < center.x) {
    if (pt.y < center.y) {
        closest = tl; // point is in upper-left quadrant
    } else {
        closest = bl; // point is in lower-left quadrant
    }
} else {
    if (pt.y < center.y) {
        closest = tr; // point is in upper-right quadrant
    } else {
        closest = br; // point is in lower-right quadrant
    }
}