I have created an experiment to evaluate various cursors( Bubble Cursor, Area Cursor). Although I have generated the response time and accuracy for each interaction I was interested in knowing user touch patterns and visualize it in heat maps. I could find several API's for iphone, javascript, etc. Since Java Swing package isn't meant to be for touch screen, I couldn't find a way to generate them. Only way I could thing of is to find the touch point pixels and then use some visual tools to generate heatmaps in x-y plane. Any better solution is much appreciated.
Starting from this example, I added the following code to the mouse handler and dragged the mouse diagonally across the image to get the effect pictured below. For simplicity, I used darker() on each pass, but a transformation in HSB space may also be appealing, for example.
#Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
…
Color color = new Color(img.getRGB(x, y));
int c = color.darker().getRGB();
img.setRGB(x, y, c);
repaint();
…
}
Alternatively, look at using JFreeChart with an XYBubbleRenderer or an XYShapeRenderer, seen here. Add a ChartMouseListener to highlight the selected bubble, as shown here for a StackedXYBarRenderer.
Also consider the prefuse visualization library. As the mouse moves over each entry in prefuse.demos.Congress, illustrated below, the highlight, tooltip and detail text change.
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I'm working on a desktop only project using the libgdx game library, and I'm looking to implement a way for when the user scrolls horizontally to pan the camera. I'd like to avoid using libgdx's scene2d if possible. However, I can't see to find a way to capture horizontal scrolls. Is there anyway to detect a horizontal mouse scroll in Libgdx? I'd like to avoid using libgdx's scene2d if possible. And if there is not, is there a way to do it using plain java, without using awt, swing, or javafx?
Horizontal mouse scrolls? There is no such thing unless you are using a mouse with multiple scroll wheels. Usually the mouse has one scroll wheel.
However, if you mean moving the mouse horizontally, you should be able to capture that using getDeltaX(). Note that it's a raw input, so you will want to divide it by the screen's width in order to make movement the same on any monitor you use. You may also want to include a sensitivity multiplier so that the user may choose how fast panning is.
It's often helpful to allow rotation of the camera using the same input by checking whether a key is held down. Consider this pseudocode:
void updateCamera() {
if (LeftShiftPressed()) {
RotateCamera(getNormalizedX());
} else {
PanCamera(getNormalizedX());
}
}
float getNormalizedX() {
return float(getDeltaX()) / float(getScreenWidth())
}
void PanCamera(float x_movement) {
// pan by x_movement * pan_multiplier
}
void RotateCamera(float x_movement) {
// rotate by x_movement * rotation_multiplier
}
I heard SO people like diagrams so I took the time to draw one :D
I need to design an activity that roughly looks like the following:
The map is just an image file of city, terrain etc. Users are able to enter values inside the x-coord and y-coord textbox and when both of them have been entered, a triangular icon (also an image file) will appear on top of the map with respect to the coordinates on the map. The min,max of coordinates are fixed as 0,0 to 10000,10000 for all maps. Users can click the triangular icon (button) and it just takes them to another activity.
What is a sensible approach of designing something as above?
As far as I'm concerned, there are several things I need to take into consideration:
1)Mapping the coordinates with respect to the screen size. An obvious workaround for this is to use absolutelayout and use pixels for positioning the triangular icon, but this solution is terrible for obvious reasons.
2)Laying a button on top of the map (image file). After playing around with bunch of layouts, I couldn't figure out how to do this via Java.
I'm just looking for a really simple guidance, just to get myself going in the right direction.
I would use a SurfaceView. You can draw anything in the onDraw method. Youll get a Canvas object to draw on so it shouldn't be difficult to transform your coordinates and do what you want.
take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/Using-Surface-View-for-Android-1659.php
I'm doing a simulator project that tests several A* based algorithms and show how they work and their results.
The algorithms are all multi-agent and run on a grid map environment.
I used a JPanel for the grid which contains a two dimensional array of Cells where each Cell is a custom class that extends the Component class and use the paint method to draw the stuff i need inside each cell.
For the drawing inside the cell I use method such as Graphics.fillRect or Graphics.drawImage to fill each cell with a certain color or icon).
I'm using a special Icon for the start position and goal position of every agent on the grid.
My problem is that I want to be able to draw more than one item on the same cell.
For example I want to be able to show the path of one of the agents by painting the cells along the path in a special color and the path might go through a start position of a different agent, so I want to be able to fill the cell with the color and have an icon drawn on top.
In another example I want to be able to mix two colors using alpha blending.
If I use graphics.fillRect() with one color that has alpha and then use it again with a different color with alpha value it won't work since the last fillRect() will override the first call.
Is there a way I can achieve what I need using the same Cell Component I created or should I implement it differently?
Perhaps there is a better solution to this problem?
I would really appreciate any advice on this matter.
If you draw a rectangle with 50% alpha and then draw another one, the second one will override it instead of blending with it.
It depends on the mode. This convenient utility shows the result of blending different colors using the modes defined in AlphaComposite. The available source code may offer some insights for your project.
Addendum:
the stuff I was trying to composite was on the same Component.
The example cited does exactly this, as does this example. If AlphaComposite does not meet your requirements, you can always vary hue, saturation and/or value; this example composes a color table based on saturation.
I'm looking to use the java2d API to make a graph in which users can manipulate certain features using their mouse - such as the scale used for an axis or move around the different points plotted on the graph.
So far all I have found is the drawX methods on a Graphics2D object, however there does not seem to be an easy way to capture a user clicking on one of these and moving it so that I can redraw the graph.
Can anyone suggest the best/easiest way to implement this? Just looking for a point in the right direction.
Not reinventing the wheel is always the best way, there are plenty of excellent libraries you can use: http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/
If you are looking to implement this yourself, you would listen to mouse events on whatever component you're actually using to display your chart (say a JPanel), and then would have to convert between screen and chart coordinates to figure out what you need to change.
I have made an Ellipse with the help of java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D
Now, I want that whenever user clicks on that ellipse, an event is generated so that I can listen to that event and peform subsequent tasks based on the ellipse which generated that event.
Here is a simple example of an object drawing program that demonstrates click, drag and multiple selection. Also consider JGraph, which is a much more advanced library for graph visualization.
I'm going to assume this is a question asking a way to listen to mouse clicks which are made on an ellipse drawn on some Swing component using Graphics2D.draw.
The simple answer is, there is no way to generate mouse events from graphics drawn on a surface.
However, here's an alternative approach:
Store the Ellipse2D objects from which the ellipses were drawn from in a List.
Register a MouseListener on the Swing component where the user is to click on.
From the MouseEvents generated from the mouse clicks, determine the location at which the mouse was clicked (using MouseEvent.getPoint), and check if the mouse click occurred in any of the Ellipse2Ds contained in the aforementioned List, using the Ellipse2D.contains method.
I don't think this is possible without lots of handcoded stuff (letting the canvas or whatever, listen to mouse events, and calculating yourself if the ellipse was clicked on).
If you want to do more like that consider scenegraph. With that the ellipse would be an object in its own right and you can register event listeners.
Edit as response to comment:
Scenegraph: https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/
google for more resources: scenegraph java
And yes. Scenegraph ist part of the JavaFX stuff, but works nicely with pure Java (no FX)