[GRASS-dev] SOLVED: Re: function to get mouse position - too vague

[Zoltan]

Apologies for the bandwidth taken - I should have though of this earlier:

grep -i -R --include "*.py" "mouse"
and
grep -i -R --include "*.c" "mouse"

Regards,
Zoltan


On 2021/07/22 13:37, Zoltan wrote:
> Hi again,
> OK, I was far to vague.......
> What I am looking for is where in the digitising functions the 
> mouse-clicks are collected to add/edit/etc the geometry elements.
>
> I'm scratching through the 'C' progs and .py folders ..........but 
> some guidance would shorten my quest.
>
> Thanks and keep well,
> Zoltan
>
>
> On 2021/07/21 17:07, Zoltan wrote:
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>> Is there a function that will return the coordinates of the mouse 
>> pointer, if it is inside a graphics window?
>> This on mouse-click.
>>
>> Ideally the return value would be:   button,x,y(,z)
>>
>> Even more ideally, if mouse hovers inside a graphics window, and a 
>> keyboard key is press (say the letter 'k'), then the return value 
>> would be "k,x,y(,z)"
>>
>> If any of you are old enough to have used Genamap, then I am looking 
>> to emulate its 'gloc' command.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Zoltan
>>
>

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