Click.jl

Julia package for click maps and advanced interaction with graphics
Author Matt5sean3
Sub Category Computer Vision
Category Graphics
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December 2015

Click!

Julia package to allow simpler interaction with graphics

Warning

Large portions of this package still need testing so not everything is guaranteed to work.

Image Maps

The simplest application of this library is to create a click map for a static image that is loaded into a GUI. Create the image map and connect it to the underlying GUI using this package as seen below for Gtk.

This code (example/gtk_ex2.jl) creates a window with a square in the center of the window that opens an info dialog when clicked.

#!/usr/bin/env julia
using Click, Click.Primitives, Gtk, Graphics

# create a 200x200 canvas in a window
canvas = @GtkCanvas(200, 200)
win = @GtkWindow(canvas, "Gtk Example")

# Setup drawing the rectangle
@guarded draw(canvas) do c
  ctx = getgc(c)
  set_source_rgb(ctx, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
  rectangle(ctx, 50, 50, 100, 100)
  fill(ctx)
end

# create a 100x100 clickable rectangle
rect = Rectangle(50, 50, 100, 100)
clickRect = ClickableRectangle(rect)

# Attach a callback to a click event
attend(clickRect, :click) do widget
  global win
  info_dialog("Clicked the rectangle", win)
end

# create a ClickMap containing the clickable rectangle
m = SimpleClickMap(clickRect)

# link the click map to the canvas
link_click_map(canvas, m)

# Display the result
show(canvas)

# Pause main thread execution in non-interactive mode
if !isinteractive()
  signal_connect(win, :destroy) do widget
    Gtk.gtk_quit()
  end
  Gtk.gtk_main()
end

Using GTK and Compose

A very useful case is to make objects from a library, such as Compose*, which abstracts the drawing process, clickable. This example (example/gtk_compose_ex.jl) demonstrates this by allowing essentially the same square to be clicked at both locations at which it is drawn. It also hides certain implementation details such as Gtk's drawing loop.

#!/usr/bin/env julia

using Gtk, Compose, Click

# Create a 400x400 canvas
canvas = @GtkCanvas(400, 400)
win = @GtkWindow(canvas, "GTK-Compose Example")

rect = rectangle(0.25, 0.25, 0.5, 0.5)
vect = compose(context(0mm, 0mm, 300mm, 300mm),
         rectangle(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0),
         fill("green"),
         compose(context(0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.5),
           rect,
           fill("black")),
         compose(context(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5),
           rect,
           fill("blue")))

cl = create_clickable(rect, vect)

attend(cl, :click) do frm, x, y
  info_dialog("Clicked Square", win)
end

# Use the fuse function to stitch things together

# ComposeClickMap needs to wrap SimpleClickMap to account for pixel density
# which that object is updated with internal to fuse
fuse(SimpleClickMap(cl), canvas, vect)

show(canvas)

# block the main thread of execution if not interactive
if !isinteractive()
  signal_connect(win, :destroy) do widget
    Gtk.gtk_quit()
  end
  Gtk.gtk_main()
end

* Be careful with this at the moment as Compose support is a work in progress.