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Re: Cursor Position with Draw Widget [message #3097 is a reply to message #3090]

Wed, 02 November 1994 20:04

rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991

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In article <398t20$6im@agate.berkeley.edu>, ganga@physics14 (Ken Ganga) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to return the cursor position from an
> event in a draw widget. I want the coordinates to be in data
> coordinates. This seems to be possible for a regular graphics window
> through the cursor command, but I can't figure out how to do it within
> a draw widget as the documentation says not to use the cursor command.
>

You can get the cursor position in DEVICE coordinates and then convert to DATA
coordinates with:

result = CONVERT_COORD(x, y, /device, /to_data)

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		Cursor Position with Draw Widget By: ganga on Wed, 02 November 1994 12:33
		Re: Cursor Position with Draw Widget By: 8015 on Thu, 03 November 1994 09:47
		Re: Cursor Position with Draw Widget By: rivers on Wed, 02 November 1994 20:04
		Re: Cursor Position with Draw Widget By: scott on Wed, 02 November 1994 15:56

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