Collision between a circle and a rectangle - objective-c

Question

I have a problem with collision detection of a circle and a rectangle. I have tried to solve the problem with the Pythagorean Theorem. But none of the queries works. The rectangle collides with the rectangular bounding box of the circle.
if (CGRectIntersectsRect(player.frame, visibleEnemy.frame)) {
if (([visibleEnemy spriteTyp] == jumper || [visibleEnemy spriteTyp] == wobble )) {
if ((visibleEnemy.center.x - player.frame.origin.x) * (visibleEnemy.center.x - player.frame.origin.x) +
(visibleEnemy.center.y - player.frame.origin.y) * (visibleEnemy.center.y - player.frame.origin.y) <=
(visibleEnemy.bounds.size.width/2 * visibleEnemy.bounds.size.width/2)) {
NSLog(#"Check 1");
normalAction = NO;
}
if ((visibleEnemy.center.x - (player.frame.origin.x + player.bounds.size.width)) *
(visibleEnemy.center.x - (player.frame.origin.x + player.bounds.size.width)) +
(visibleEnemy.center.y - player.frame.origin.y) * (visibleEnemy.center.y - player.frame.origin.y) <=
(visibleEnemy.bounds.size.width/2 * visibleEnemy.bounds.size.width/2)) {
NSLog(#"Check 2");
normalAction = NO;
}
else {
NSLog(#"Check 3");
normalAction = NO;
}
}
}

Answer 1

Here is how I did it in one of my small gaming projects. It gave me best results and it's simple. My code detects if there is a collision between circle and the line. So you can easily adopt it to circle - rectangle collision detection by checking all 4 edges of the rectangle.
Let's say that a ball has a ballRadius, and location (xBall, yBall). The line is defined with two points (xStart, yStart) and (xEnd, yEnd).
Implementation of a simple collision detection:
float ballRadius = ...;
float x1 = xStart - xBall;
float y1 = yStart - yBall;
float x2 = xEnd - xBall;
float y2 = yEnd - yBall;
float dx = x2 - x1;
float dy = y2 - y1;
float dr = sqrtf(powf(dx, 2) + powf(dy, 2));
float D = x1*y2 - x2*y1;
float delta = powf(ballRadius*0.9,2)*powf(dr,2) - powf(D,2);
if (delta >= 0)
{
// Collision detected
}
If delta is greater than zero there are two intersections between ball (circle) and line. If delta is equal to zero there is one intersection – perfect collision.
I hope it will help you.