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Scilab manual >> Graphics Library > interaction > xclick

xclick

Wait for a mouse click.

Calling Sequence

[ibutton,xcoord,yxcoord,iwin,cbmenu]=xclick([flag])

Arguments

ibutton

Real scalar (integer value): mouse button number, key code... (See description below).

xcoord

Real scalar: x-ccordinate of the mouse pointer when the clic occured, in current graphic scale.

ycoord

Real scalar: x-ccordinate of the mouse pointer when the clic occured, in current graphic scale.

iwin

Real scalar (integer value): number of the window where the action occured.

cbmenu

String: callback associated to a menu if xclick returns due to a click on a menu. In this case, ibutton, xcoord, ycoord, and iwin take arbitrary values.

flag

Real scalar (integer value): If present, the click event queue is not cleared when entering xclick.

Description

xclick waits for a mouse click in the graphics window.

If it is called with 3 left hand side arguments, it waits for a mouse click in the current graphics window.

If it is called with 4 or 5 left hand side arguments, it waits for a mouse click in any graphics window.

The values of ibutton are described below.

ibutton==0

Left mouse button has been pressed.

ibutton==1

Middle mouse button has been pressed.

ibutton==2

Right mouse button has been pressed.

ibutton==3

Left mouse button has been clicked.

ibutton==4

Middle mouse button has been clicked.

ibutton==5

Right mouse button has been clicked.

ibutton==10

Left mouse button has been double-clicked.

ibutton==11

Middle mouse button has been double-clicked.

ibutton==12

Right mouse button has been double-clicked.

ibutton >=32

key with ASCII code ibutton has been pressed.

ibutton <=32

key with ASCII code -ibutton has been released.

ibutton >=1000+32

key with ASCII code ibutton-1000 has been pressed while CTRL key pressed.

ibutton==-1000

graphic window has been closed.

WARNING: ibutton was equal to -100 for graphic window closure up to Scilab 4.1.2, but this code has been changed (in Scilab 5.0) because it was also the code returned for d key release.

ibutton==-2

A dynamic menu has been selected and its callback is returned in cbmenu.

Authors

J.Ph.C.

V.C.

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