Re: Pointer Events in SVG

Hi,

thank you very much! But still, even if its technically doable with some
lines of script, I still think its an unnecessary
burden for a developer, since its needed for very simple use-cases. Plus
some of the features used in this are not included in SVGT 1.2, I agree.

Regards,
Daniel


2007/10/25, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>:
>
> You can readily get the screen coordinates and transform them back
> into the SVG coordinate system, e.g.
>
> function locateEvent(event)
> {
>    var target = evt.target;
>    var m = target.getScreenCTM();
>    var pt = document.documentElement.createSVGPoint();
>    pt.x = evt.clientX;
>    pt.y = evt.clientY;
>    pt = pt.matrixTransform(m.inverse());
>    return pt;
> }
>
> But whilst getScreenCTM() and inverse() are available in SVGT 1.2,
> it seems that createSVGPoint() and matrixTransform() aren't, at
> least based upon searching through:
>
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/svgudom.html
>
> Am I missing something, or this is intentional?
>
> I agree that it would be nice to have an easier way to getting the
> event location in the SVG coordinate system.
>
>   Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Daniel Herzog wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > just to quickly introduce myself, I work at Vodafone and contributed to
> the
> > WICD Testsuite.
> >
> > I would like to know, is there a way to get the pointer-position in
> > reference to an SVGs coordinate-system? Please take a look at the
> following
> > testfile (with Opera 9.23, Firefox2, Safari3):
> > http://dev.danielherzog.de/wicd/pointerPositionTesting.xhtml
> >
> > The blue rect is part of an SVG that has a viewBox of only 20 x 6, but
> the
> > whole thing is in a container much bigger and is therefore scaled up.
> When
> > hovering the SVG you see some properties of mouse-events below it, but
> none
> > of them quite fit
> > the SVGs coordinate system. The maximum x-values for that would be 20
> then.
> > I think it would be important to have an easy way for getting to these
> values,
> just thinking of a simple mousefollow, or slider controls, for example.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Daniel
> > <http://dev.danielherzog.de/wicd/pointerPositionTesting.xhtml>
> >
>



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