Re: Mouse events using PickManipulationRendererJ3D (and brushing)

• To: "Flaggs, Don" <don.flaggs@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Mouse events using PickManipulationRendererJ3D (and brushing)
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:19:01 -0600 (CST)

Hi Don,

> We're putting together an application where we're creating multiple 2D/3D 
> scatterplot views of the same data using all the usual widgets, which works 
> fine.  The next hurdle is adding picking so that the user can see a complete 
> listing of all data associated with the picked object.  We've following the 
> "cookbook" from one of your examples, and on the surface things appear to 
> work.  The problem is that after using the right mouse button for picking, 
> which works correctly, subsequent mouse events using other buttons are hosed, 
> e.g., the left mouse now brings up the 3D cursor, and when released causes a 
> doAction() to be fired.  All this of course means that the usual left mouse 
> button fuctionality is lost.

Are you calling MouseHelper.setFunctionMap()?
Or MouseHelper.setEnableCombos()? Or are you
using a custom extension of MouseBehavior?
These are the only way I know to modify mouse
button behaviors. If you've found a bug, we've
never seen this sort of thing before (which
doesn't mean its impossible).

> One other thing that we've noticed is that after brushing one of the data 
> fields to exclude specific data values, we still see some of the excluded 
> points appearing in the display, or at least the values for them returned 
> when they are picked by a getValues() call says that they're there...

How are you excluding points? By actually
constructing new Fields with those points
removed? Or merely by SelectRangeWidgets?

Thanks,
Bill

• References:
  • Mouse events using PickManipulationRendererJ3D (and brushing) problems ...
    • From: Flaggs, Don