Re: Zoom relative to mouse position

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 20 May 2008 16:34:39 -0400
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In article <J4BYj.9256$nl7.3109@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com>,
 Amir Kouchekinia <amir_nospam@pyrus_nospam.us> wrote:

Hi John,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I have tried your code, and the behavior is not what I am looking for.

The red rectangle in my code was located at 100,100 point in the initial
view (Scale 1.0, No Translate). I am not sure why you have centered the
rectangle to the 0,0 point. Also, where ever I try to zoom, the red
rectangle ends up being centered around that point.


Correct. The rectangle starts out centered on the origin of a Cartesian
plane (user space). As the graphics environment's default transformation
matrix is unchanged, the rectangle is rendered upright on the screen
(device space) and centered on the origin (left, upper corner).
Translating it to the current mouse point leaves it centered on the
mouse point, scaled according to the mouse wheel. Try altering the
original rectangle from (-15, -30, 30, 60) to (-15, -5, 30, 60) to see
how the rectangle remains upright (due to the g2's default transform)
and how it is positioned (due to the tx transform).

This is the behavior I want to see: When I place the mouse pointer over
the lower-left corner of the rectangle and zoom, I want the lower-left
corner of the rectangle to remain at the original mouse pointer location
relative to the screen. Now if I move the mouse pointer to the
upper-left corner of the rectangle and zoom, I want the upper-left
corner of the rectangle to remain at the new mouse pointer location
relative to the screen. If there where other shapes on the canvas, I'd
expect similar behavior when the mouse pointer is located over one of
those other shapes.


Only the shape under the mouse changes, and the other shapes remain
unaffected? You'll have to implement MouseMotionListener, determine
which object includes the mouse point, and scale/translate the
individual rectangle relative to the current mouse position.

I have found an example of this behavior on my Mac OSX 10.5 desktop:
If I hold the 'control' key and use the mouse wheel to zoom in, the
point in the object displayed under the mouse pointer stays under the
mouse pointer relative to the screen.


In this case, the entire Desktop zooms (with the wheel) and pans (with
the mouse). Let's start with the zoom. Such an effect is most easily
achieved by concatenating transformations with the g2's default
transform. Of course, this zooms the entire view, not just a single
object as you suggest above. Compare the order of concatenation in
following example to the previous one. The rotate is superfluous, but
interesting to alter.

Panning is left as an exercise with MouseMotionListener. Hint: Instead
of translating to the center of the window (as shown below), you'd
translate in a direction determined by the difference between successive
mouse positions.

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Shape;
import java.awt.event.MouseWheelEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseWheelListener;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class ViewZoom extends JPanel {

    private static final int SIZE = 500;
    private double scale = 2d;
    Rectangle2D.Double rect1 = new Rectangle2D.Double(-25, -35, 20, 30);
    Rectangle2D.Double rect2 = new Rectangle2D.Double(5, 5, 30, 50);
    Rectangle2D.Double rect3 = new Rectangle2D.Double(-15, -15, 30, 30);
   
    public ViewZoom() {
        this.addMouseWheelListener(new ZoomHandler());
    }

    @Override
    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        super.paint(g);
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
        g2.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g2.drawLine(0, SIZE / 2, SIZE, SIZE / 2);
        g2.drawLine(SIZE / 2, 0, SIZE / 2, SIZE);
        AffineTransform saveAT = g2.getTransform();
        g2.translate(SIZE / 2, SIZE / 2);
        g2.rotate(Math.PI / 4);
        g2.scale(scale, scale);
        g2.setColor(Color.RED);
        g2.draw(rect1);
        g2.draw(rect2);
        g2.setColor(Color.BLUE);
        g2.draw(rect3);
        g2.setTransform(saveAT);
    }

    private class ZoomHandler implements MouseWheelListener {

        public void mouseWheelMoved(MouseWheelEvent e) {
            if (e.getScrollType() == MouseWheelEvent.WHEEL_UNIT_SCROLL) {

                scale += (.1 * e.getWheelRotation());
                scale = Math.max(0.1, scale);
                scale = Math.min(scale, 10);

                ViewZoom.this.revalidate();
                ViewZoom.this.repaint();
            }
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    
        JFrame f = new JFrame("ViewZoom");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        ViewZoom viewZoom = new ViewZoom();
        f.getContentPane().add(viewZoom);
        f.setSize(SIZE, SIZE);
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
}

John
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