Re: PickManipulationRenderer, attaining x,y,z coordinates

• To: Brad Buchsbaum <bbuchsba@xxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: PickManipulationRenderer, attaining x,y,z coordinates
• From: "From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:56:25 -0600 (CST)

Hi Brad,

The transparent volume displays depend on texture mapping
which eliminates the locations of individial points that
PickManipulationRendererJ3D needs, so texture mapping is
turned off by PickManipulationRendererJ3D.  However, its
results with 3-D grids are unpredictable since it is a crap
shoot which 3-D grid point is closest to the ray defined by
the mouse click.

Note you can retrieve the numbers printed in the upper left
corner for the cursor location when the center mouse is
pressed using DisplayRenderer.getCursorStringVector().  See
an example in visad/examples/Test00.java.  You'd trigger by
creating a DisplayListener and waiting for
DisplayEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED_CENTER.

Cheers,
Bill
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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Brad Buchsbaum wrote:

> Hi Bill, all:
> 
> I'm trying to retrieve the x,y,z coordinates of a point in the 3D Panel
> every time the user right clicks on the mouse.  Clearly this information is
> being computed somewhere, because it's displayed in the upper left of the
> display when both mouse keys are pressed.  But how to retrieve that info
> programmatically?  I tried using a PickManipulationRenderer - and it does
> allow me to get the index of the coordinates -- but it has the effect of
> turning my volume rendered image into a grid of points, one per member of
> the domain set.  This point grid is colored according to the displayType of
> the associated ScalarMap, except that each and every point is visible,
> regardless of alpha value.
> 
> Here's the code (it's been adapted from Test61):
> 
>     ScalarMap map1color = new ScalarMap(wr, Display.RGBA);
>     dpys[0].addMap(map1color);
> 
>     DataReferenceImpl ref_grid3d = new DataReferenceImpl("ref_grid3d");
>     ref_grid3d.setData(linear_ff);
> 
>     final PickManipulationRendererJ3D pick = new
> PickManipulationRendererJ3D();
>     ((DisplayImplJ3D)dpys[0]).addReferences(pick, ref_grid3d);
> 
>     CellImpl cellt = new CellImpl() {
>       public void doAction() throws VisADException, RemoteException {
>         System.out.println("index = " + pick.getCloseIndex());
> 
>       }
> 
>     };
> 
>     cellt.addReference(ref_grid3d);
> 
> 
> appreciate any help!
> 
> Brad Buchsbaum
> 
>