Re: identify data by mouseclick

• To: Sven Laude <sven.laude@xxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: identify data by mouseclick
• From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:28:27 -0600

Hi Sven,

> i'm just starting with visad. i have several data in a function (index) ->
> (xCoord,yCoord,color) and want to show the points in a 2D display. that's
> not the problem. now i have to find the index of a point by mouse-clicking
> on it. How can i do this? is it possible to highlight the current point?

You can use visad.bom.PickManipulationRendererJ3D to do
this. See its main() method for an example of how to use
PickManipulationRendererJ3D. Note that field1d has MathType
(x -> y) and is linked to display using the
PickManipulationRendererJ3D pmr1d. Right mouse clicks on
the depiction of field1d trigger the doAction() method of
cellfield1d, and in that method a call to pmr1d.getCloseIndex()
returns the index of the sample in field1d closest to the
mouse click.

To highlight the point in your own Field (index -> (xCoord,yCoord,color)),
you could do something like:

  int index = pmr1d.getCloseIndex();
  RealTuple rt = field.getSample(index);

Tnen link rt to display, possibly using a ConstantMap to
PointSize to make a large point.

Good luck,
Bill
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  • identify data by mouseclick
    • From: Sven Laude