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    [SOLVED]Start Drag from GeUserArea

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    • H
      Helper
      last edited by

      On 08/06/2017 at 03:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:

      To check for a drag event the solution is to simply use MouseDragStart()/MouseDrag()/MouseDragEnd().
      Instead of Message(), move the mouse dragging into InputEvent().
      Then to check if the started drag processing was just a click add this condition at the beginning of the while dragging loop:

      if bc_click[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
          break
      

      This condition exits the loop whenever the mouse left button is released. Then check if the mouse was really moved or if it was just a mouse click.

      Finally, I don't think KillEvents() is useful here if it's called inside the while dragging loop.

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      • H
        Helper
        last edited by

        On 08/06/2017 at 04:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:

        Thanks you sadly I didnt succes to get the click evaluated properly.

        import c4d
          
        class Area(c4d.gui.GeUserArea) :
          
            def DrawMsg(self, x1, y1, x2, y2, msg) : 
                self.DrawSetPen(c4d.Vector(.2))
                self.DrawRectangle(x1, y1, x2, y2)
                
                
            def InputEvent(self, msg) :
                mousex = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_X]
                mousey = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y]
                
                self.MouseDragStart(c4d.KEY_MLEFT, mousex, mousey, c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE)
                
                mx = mousex
                my = mousey
                while True:
                    if msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
                        break
                    
                    result, dx, dy, channels = self.MouseDrag()
                    if result!=c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE: break
                    
                    #If we don't move that mean we clicked'
                    if not dx or not dy:
                        print 'clicked'
                    else:
                        mx += dx
                        my += dy
                        
                        print "Mouse Dragging at position [%f,%f]" % (mx, my)
                    
          
                
                end_state = self.MouseDragEnd()
                if end_state == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_ESCAPE:
                    print "Escaped"
                elif end_state == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_FINISHED:
                    print 'Mouse Drag End'             
                
                    
                return True        
          
        class MyDialog(c4d.gui.GeDialog) :
            def CreateLayout(self) :
                self.area = Area()
                
                self.AddUserArea(1000, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT|c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT)
                self.AttachUserArea(self.area, 1000)
                return True
          
        def main() :
            dialog = MyDialog()
            dialog.Open(dlgtype=c4d.DLG_TYPE_MODAL_RESIZEABLE, defaultw=500, defaulth=500)
          
        if __name__=='__main__':
            main()
        

        As you could see, the first tick is always drag (dx and dy are not equal to 0) even if you don't move the mouse.

        Moreover I would like to ask is there a way for changing mouse icon? For exemple I would like to change it when she is outside of my GeUserArea.

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        • H
          Helper
          last edited by

          On 08/06/2017 at 08:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

          Sorry my first post was missing information.
          MouseDrag() has to be called first in the loop for each drag event. Then the current input state for the mouse left button has to be retrieved before checking c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE.
          So the dragging loop would be:

          mx = mousex
          my = mousey
          state = c4d.BaseContainer()
          while True:
            
              result, dx, dy, channels = self.MouseDrag()
              if result == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_ESCAPE:
                break
            
              if not self.GetInputState(c4d.BFM_INPUT_MOUSE, c4d.BFM_INPUT_MOUSELEFT, state) :
                  break
            
              if state[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
                  print "Released Left Mouse"
                  break
            
              if dx == 0 and dy == 0:
                  continue
            
              mx += dx
              my += dy
              print "Mouse Dragging at position [%f,%f]" % (mx, my)
          

          state[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] gives the mouse left button clicked state. So this allows to check when the mouse button has been released.
          If the mouse position hasn't changed then no dragging should be processed.

          You can change the mouse icon with gui.SetMousePointer().

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          • H
            Helper
            last edited by

            On 08/06/2017 at 09:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

            Thanks you. Tested and solved ! 🙂

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            • H
              Helper
              last edited by

              On 09/06/2017 at 00:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:

              Sorry to bump this thread but is there a way for start drag from a GeUserArea and recieve drop message from TreeViewCustomGui? Or at least is it possible to send message to this TreeViewCustomGui? Or a timer? 
              Just tell me yes or no 😉

              Cause I think I must do the following thing but I prefer ask if there is no other way before ^^
              Make my timer function into my GeDialog who call a custom timer function inside my TreeView 🙂

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              • H
                Helper
                last edited by

                On 09/06/2017 at 02:29, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                GeUserArea.HandleMouseDrag() is missing in the Python API so it would be really difficult and hacky to send drag and drop data to other gadgets.

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                • H
                  Helper
                  last edited by

                  On 09/06/2017 at 02:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                  Ok thanks for confirming ! 🙂

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                  • H
                    Helper
                    last edited by

                    On 09/06/2017 at 13:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                    Sorry again to bump this thread, but I don't udnerstand the output code while the mouse is not moving, delta y is always -22 while it should be 0

                        def InputEvent(self, msg) :
                            mousex = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_X]
                            mousey = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y]
                      
                            self.MouseDragStart(c4d.KEY_MLEFT, mousex, mousey, c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE)
                      
                            start_x = mousex
                            start_y = mousey
                      
                            mx = mousex
                            my = mousey
                            state = c4d.BaseContainer()
                            while True:
                      
                                result, dx, dy, channels = self.MouseDrag()
                                if result == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_ESCAPE:
                                    break
                      
                                if not self.GetInputState(c4d.BFM_INPUT_MOUSE, c4d.BFM_INPUT_MOUSELEFT, state) :
                                    break
                      
                                if state[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
                                    print "Released Left Mouse"
                                    break
                      
                                if dx == 0 and dy == 0: #dy != 0 while not moving
                                    continue
                      
                                mx += dx
                                my += dy
                      
                               #Should not be display if not moving
                               print 'drag'
                      
                            print start_x - mx
                            print start_y - my #-22 if not moving
                      
                            return True
                    
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                    • H
                      Helper
                      last edited by

                      On 12/06/2017 at 07:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                      Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

                      Sorry again to bump this thread, but I don't understand the output code while the mouse is not moving, delta y is always -22 while it should be 0

                      If the mouse doesn't move dx and dy are 0. The final mouse delta X and Y values depends on how you calculate the current mouse position.
                      It's better to subtract the mouse drag delta values:

                      mx -= dx
                      my -= dy
                      

                      Then the final delta value can be calculated:
                      print mx - mousex
                      print my - mousey

                      If you don't want MouseDrag() to return when the mouse doesn't move, don't pass MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE to MouseDragStart().

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                      • H
                        Helper
                        last edited by

                        On 13/06/2017 at 04:52, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                        Ok I get why it's wrong... The corect loop initialization is:

                                mousex = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_X]
                                mousey = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y]
                                
                                self.MouseDragStart(c4d.KEY_MLEFT, mousex, mousey, c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE)
                                
                                while self.MouseDrag()[0] == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE:
                                    if msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
                                        break
                                    
                                    result, dx, dy, channels = self.MouseDrag()
                                    print "dx {} - dy {}".format(dx, dy)
                        

                        While in the documention of https://developers.maxon.net/docs/py/2023_2/modules/c4d.gui/EditorWindow/index.html#EditorWindow.MouseDragStart the main drag loop is done with While true, which give you a wrong value for dx/dy for the first packet of the drag input.

                        So doing it like in the C++ exemple

                            win->MouseDragStart(button, mouseX, mouseY, MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE);
                            while (win->MouseDrag(&dx, &dy, &device) == MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE)
                        

                        give us in python

                                self.MouseDragStart(c4d.KEY_MLEFT, mousex, mousey, c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE)
                                
                                while self.MouseDrag()[0] == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE:
                        

                        Anyway thanks for your support ! 🙂

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                        • H
                          Helper
                          last edited by

                          On 13/06/2017 at 08:18, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                          I can't confirm that because the delta values returned from the call to MouseDrag()[0] aren't processed for each while loop:

                          while self.MouseDrag()[0] == c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE: # dx, dy and channels not retrieved and processed
                          

                          There should be only one MouseDrag() call for each while loop.

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                          • H
                            Helper
                            last edited by

                            On 13/06/2017 at 08:28, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                            Juste copy paste thoses two codes and do a normal click without dragging. Just a simple click (no move, nothing just a click), So result should be 0 and 0 for dx/dy in all case (in all packet of the drag pool)
                            The first one give correct result for dx , dy

                            import c4d
                              
                            class Area(c4d.gui.GeUserArea) :
                              
                                def InputEvent(self, msg) :
                                    mousex = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_X]
                                    mousey = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y]
                                    
                                    self.MouseDragStart(c4d.KEY_MLEFT, mousex, mousey, c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE)
                                    
                                    while self.MouseDrag()[0]:
                                        if msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
                                            break
                                        
                                        result, dx, dy, channels = self.MouseDrag()
                                        if result!=c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE: break
                                        
                                        print "dx {} - dy {}".format(dx, dy)
                                                    
                                    return True
                              
                            class MyDialog(c4d.gui.GeDialog) :
                                def CreateLayout(self) :
                                    self.area = Area()
                                    
                                    self.AddUserArea(1000, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT|c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT)
                                    self.AttachUserArea(self.area, 1000)
                                    return True
                              
                            def main() :
                                dialog = MyDialog()
                                dialog.Open(dlgtype=c4d.DLG_TYPE_MODAL_RESIZEABLE, defaultw=500, defaulth=500)
                              
                            if __name__=='__main__':
                                main()
                            

                            While the sdk code(using While True) give wrong result for dx, dy in the first packet (dx 4 and dy 4)

                            import c4d
                              
                            class Area(c4d.gui.GeUserArea) :
                              
                                def InputEvent(self, msg) :
                                    mousex = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_X]
                                    mousey = msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y]
                                    
                                    self.MouseDragStart(c4d.KEY_MLEFT, mousex, mousey, c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_DONTHIDEMOUSE | c4d.MOUSEDRAGFLAGS_NOMOVE)
                                    
                                    while True:
                                        if msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 0:
                                            break
                                        
                                        result, dx, dy, channels = self.MouseDrag()
                                        if result!=c4d.MOUSEDRAGRESULT_CONTINUE: break
                                        
                                        print "dx {} - dy {}".format(dx, dy)
                                                    
                                    return True
                              
                            class MyDialog(c4d.gui.GeDialog) :
                                def CreateLayout(self) :
                                    self.area = Area()
                                    
                                    self.AddUserArea(1000, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT|c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT)
                                    self.AttachUserArea(self.area, 1000)
                                    return True
                              
                            def main() :
                                dialog = MyDialog()
                                dialog.Open(dlgtype=c4d.DLG_TYPE_MODAL_RESIZEABLE, defaultw=500, defaulth=500)
                              
                            if __name__=='__main__':
                                main()
                            
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                            • H
                              Helper
                              last edited by

                              On 14/06/2017 at 03:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

                              You're not retrieving and printing the delta values dx and dy from the self.MouseDrag()[0] calls in the first script. The delta values are 4.0 for the first mouse drag there too.

                              The limitation with MouseDrag() in Python is the language doesn't support assignments in expressions.

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