P3D v3 Screen/Mouse Left Swipe, Right Swipe, Down Swipe

[lionheart]

Is it possible... Has anyone figured out a way... to do this..
to 'Mouse drag' a Left Swipe, Right Swipe, Down Swipe, Up Swipe, on a gauge face?

 

[Heretic]

Isn't mouse dragging and swiping about the same?

 

[lionheart]

Left Drag means left-mouse-button-drag... and right drag means 'right-mouse-button-drag' movements. Not exactly the same as dragging the mouse with the left click button, left, across the screen, or right, across the screen, meaning from left to right (for right drag) and right to left (for left drag). Same for up and down dragging. So, no... not the same.

This would be where you click on the area on the gauge, and make a left-mouse-button-down-click (drag) motion, either up, down, left, or right motion, of any amount, in that zone, and it would trigger an enum code string.

 

[spokes2112]

Dragging & swiping are kind of the same except,,, you need to know the direction.
Just an idea based on a lua made for FS9 to do FSX style looking around.
Not tested.

1) Need to know the original position of the initial click without the release

<Click Kind="LeftSingle+LeftDrag">
(M:X) (>L:Init_Click_X, number)
(M:Y) (>L:Init_Click_Y, number)
</Click>

2) Need to have a little "cushion" so that even a heartbeat upon the mouse will not have a directional effect.

<!-- In pixels relative to parent object/gauge background -->
<Macro Name="Cushion">20</Macro>

3) Add all the requisites together. This is for a 2D gauge but in a VC should be able to do too.
On the initial click, get the X/Ys, after that get the XY's during the drag and compare to the initials applying the cushion.

<Macro Name="Cushion">20</Macro>

<Mouse>

<Click Kind="LeftSingle+LeftDrag">
<!-- Get Initials -->
(M:Event) 'LeftSingle' scmp 0 ==
if{ (M:X) (>L:Init_Click_X, number) (M:Y) (>L:Init_Click_Y, number) }

<!-- Do the comparisons and apply -->

els{ (M:Event) 'LeftDrag' scmp 0 == if{
<!-- Swipe left -->
(M:X) @Cushion + (L:Init_Click_X, number) &lt; if{ DO MY LEFT SWIPE STUFF }
<!-- Swipe right -->
(M:X) @Cushion - (L:Init_Click_X, number) &gt; if{ DO MY RIGHT SWIPE STUFF }
<!-- Swipe down -->
(M:Y) @Cushion + (L:Init_Click_Y, number) &lt; if{ DO MY DOWN SWIPE STUFF }
<!-- Swipe up -->
(M:Y) @Cushion - (L:Init_Click_Y, number) &gt; if{ DO MY UP SWIPE STUFF }

<!-- End comparison els -->
} }

</Click> 

</Mouse>

 

[Heretic]

Left Drag means left-mouse-button-drag... and right drag means 'right-mouse-button-drag' movements. Not exactly the same as dragging the mouse with the left click button, left, across the screen, or right, across the screen, meaning from left to right (for right drag) and right to left (for left drag). Same for up and down dragging. So, no... not the same.

This would be where you click on the area on the gauge, and make a left-mouse-button-down-click (drag) motion, either up, down, left, or right motion, of any amount, in that zone, and it would trigger an enum code string.

As Roman pointed out, it's very much the same as long as you consider the drag direction in the code.

 

[ddawson]

If you want a single action, when the drag/swipe is completed, then your second comparison will be against 'LeftRelease' rather than 'LeftDrag'

 

[lionheart]

So how would this be written? Is there such a code that says what direction you are dragging and then releasing? I have never seen such a code.

On a 3D Model in FS, I was able to have a mouse control that could open/close a canopy (slide an object) by moving the mouse sideways. This was for the ModelDef parts though, not a 2D XML gauge.

 

[n4gix]

Bill, here is an example of using LeftDrag to control a mixture lever. It also allows for mouse wheel for fine adjustments if desired:

  <PartInfo>
    <Name>KA350i_lever_mixture0</Name>
    <Copy>KA350i_lever_mixture_both</Copy>
    <AnimLength>100</AnimLength>
    <Animation>
      <Parameter>
        <Code>
          (L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum)
        </Code>
      </Parameter>
    </Animation>
    <MouseRect>
      <Cursor>Hand</Cursor>
      <TooltipText>L Cond %((L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum))%!d!</TooltipText>
      <MouseFlags>LeftSingle+LeftDrag+MoveRepeat+Wheel</MouseFlags>
      <CallbackCode>
        (M:Event) 'LeftSingle' scmp 0 !=
        if{
        (L:ConditionLeftX, position) s0 0 !=
        if{
        (L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum) (M:X) l0 &lt;
        if{ 2 + 100 min } els{ l0 (M:X) &lt; if{ 2 - 0 max } }
        (&gt;L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum)
        }
        }
        (M:X) (&gt;L:ConditionLeftX, position)

        (M:Event) 'WheelDown' scmp 0 !=
        if{ (L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum) ++ (&gt;L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum) }
        (M:Event) 'WheelUp' scmp 0 !=
        if{ (L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum) -- (&gt;L:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1,enum) }
      </CallbackCode>
    </MouseRect>
  </PartInfo>

 

[Kyrelel]

and how does that apply to a 2D XML gauge?

 

[lionheart]

Bill,

My apologies. I might have worded that wrong. I am looking for a 2D gauge code.

What I want to do is mouse drag pages on a digital LCD screen.

 

[Heretic]

The "M:" type variable x and y parameters deal with the on screen coordinates and NOT the world coordinates. So FSX doesn't care one bit if a mouse drag code is run in a 2D or a 3D control element.
This is also the reason why mouse draggable handles in the VC are so awfully tricky to implement. What works from viewpoint A will not work that well from viewpoint B, simply because you're only dealing with X and Y coordinates.