xgetmouse

Arguments

sel

boolean vector [getmotion, getrelease]. default value is [%t, %f]

rep

vector of size 3, [x,y,ibutton].

win

number of the figure where the event occurred.

Description

Despite xclick, xgetmouse does not prevent callback menu to be executed.

If the mouse pointer is located in the current graphics window, xgetmouse returns in rep the current pointer position (x,y) and the value ibutton. The ibutton value indicates the event type:

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==-5

Left mouse button has been released

ibutton==-4

Middle mouse button has been released

ibutton==-3

Right mouse button has been released

ibutton==-1

pointer has moved

ibutton > =32

key with ascii code ascii(ibutton) has been pressed

ibutton < =-32

key with ascii code ascii(-ibutton) has been released

ibutton > =1000+32

key with ascii code ascii(ibutton-1000) has been pressed while CTRL key pressed

ibutton==-1000

graphic window has been closed

WARNING: In previous versions of Scilab (<5.0), the user could give a flag to precise if the mouse click event queue had to be cleared when entering xgetmouse. This option has been removed in Scilab 5.1.

Examples

//  rectangle selection
clf();  // erase/create window
a=gca();a.data_bounds=[0 0;100 100];//set user coordinates
xtitle(" drawing a rectangle ") //add a title
show_window(); //put the window on the top

[b,xc,yc]=xclick(); //get a point
r = xrect(xc,yc,0,0) //draw a rectangle , r is its handle

rep=[xc,yc,-1];first=%f;

while rep(3)==-1 do // mouse just moving ...
  rep=xgetmouse();
  xc1=rep(1);yc1=rep(2);
  ox=min(xc,xc1);
  oy=max(yc,yc1);
  w=abs(xc-xc1);h=abs(yc-yc1);
  r.data=[ox,oy,w,h]; //change the rectangle origin, width a height
  first=%f;
end

See also

• locate — mouse selection of a set of points in a 2D axes
• xclick — Wait for a mouse click or an event in a graphic window.
• seteventhandler — set an event handler for the current graphic window