| getGraphicsEvent {grDevices} | R Documentation |
This function waits for input from a graphics window in the form of a mouse or keyboard event.
getGraphicsEvent(prompt = "Waiting for input",
onMouseDown = NULL, onMouseMove = NULL,
onMouseUp = NULL, onKeybd = NULL,
consolePrompt = prompt)
setGraphicsEventHandlers(which = dev.cur(), ...)
getGraphicsEventEnv(which = dev.cur())
setGraphicsEventEnv(which = dev.cur(), env)
prompt |
prompt to be displayed to the user in the graphics window |
onMouseDown |
a function to respond to mouse clicks |
onMouseMove |
a function to respond to mouse movement |
onMouseUp |
a function to respond to mouse button releases |
onKeybd |
a function to respond to key presses |
consolePrompt |
prompt to be displayed to the user in the console |
which |
which graphics device does the call apply to? |
... |
items including handlers to be placed in the event environment |
env |
an environment to be used as the event environment |
These functions allow user input from some graphics devices (currently
only the windows() and X11(type="Xlib") screen displays
in base R). Event handlers may be installed to respond to events
involving the mouse or keyboard.
The functions are related as follows. If any of the first five
arguments to getGraphicsEvent are given, then it uses those
in a call to setGraphicsEventHandlers to replace any existing
handlers in the current device. This is for compatibility with pre-2.12.0 R
versions. The current normal way to set up event handlers is to
set them using setGraphicsEventHandlers or setGraphicsEventEnv on
one or more graphics devices, and then use getGraphicsEvent() with
no arguments to retrieve event data.
getGraphicsEventEnv() may be used to save the event environment
for use later.
The names of the arguments in getGraphicsEvent are special. When
handling events, the graphics system will look through the event
environment for functions named onMouseDown, onMouseMove, onMouseUp
and onKeybd and use them as event handlers. It will use
prompt for a label on the graphics device. Two other special names are
which, which will identify the graphics device, and
result, where the result of the last event
handler will be stored before being returned by getGraphicsEvent().
The mouse event handlers should be functions with header
function(buttons, x, y). The coordinates x
and y will be passed to mouse event handlers in device independent
coordinates (i.e. the lower left corner of the window is (0,0),
the upper right is (1,1)). The buttons argument
will be a vector listing the buttons
that are pressed at the time of the event, with 0 for left, 1 for middle, and 2
for right.
The keyboard event handler should be a function with header
function(key). A single element character vector will be passed
to this handler, corresponding to the key press. Shift and other modifier
keys will have been processed, so shift-a will be passed as
"A". The following special keys may also be passed to the handler:
Control keys, passed as "Ctrl-A", etc.
Navigation keys, passed as one of "Left", "Up", "Right", "Down",
"PgUp", "PgDn", "End", "Home"
Edit keys, passed as one of "Ins", "Del"
Function keys, passed as one of "F1", "F2", ...
The event handlers are standard R functions, and will be executed as though called from the event environment.
In an interactive session, events will be processed until
one of the event handlers returns
a non-NULL value which will be returned as the value of
getGraphicsEvent, or
the user interrupts the function from the console.
When run interactively,
getGraphicsEvent returns a non-NULL value returned from one of the event handlers.
In a non-interactive session, getGraphicsEvent will return NULL immediately.
getGraphicsEventEnv returns the current event environment for the graphics device,
or NULL if none has been set.
setGraphicsEventEnv and setGraphicsEventHandlers return the previous
event environment for the graphics device.
Duncan Murdoch
savepar <- par(ask=FALSE)
dragplot <- function(..., xlim=NULL, ylim=NULL, xaxs="r", yaxs="r") {
plot(..., xlim=xlim, ylim=ylim, xaxs=xaxs, yaxs=yaxs)
startx <- NULL
starty <- NULL
usr <- NULL
devset <- function()
if (dev.cur() != eventEnv$which) dev.set(eventEnv$which)
dragmousedown <- function(buttons, x, y) {
startx <<- x
starty <<- y
devset()
usr <<- par("usr")
eventEnv$onMouseMove <- dragmousemove
NULL
}
dragmousemove <- function(buttons, x, y) {
devset()
deltax <- diff(grconvertX(c(startx,x), "ndc", "user"))
deltay <- diff(grconvertY(c(starty,y), "ndc", "user"))
plot(..., xlim=usr[1:2]-deltax, xaxs="i",
ylim=usr[3:4]-deltay, yaxs="i")
NULL
}
mouseup <- function(buttons, x, y) {
eventEnv$onMouseMove <- NULL
}
keydown <- function(key) {
if (key == "q") return(invisible(1))
eventEnv$onMouseMove <- NULL
NULL
}
setGraphicsEventHandlers(prompt="Click and drag, hit q to quit",
onMouseDown = dragmousedown,
onMouseUp = mouseup,
onKeybd = keydown)
eventEnv <- getGraphicsEventEnv()
}
dragplot(rnorm(1000), rnorm(1000))
# This currently only works on the Windows
# and X11(type = "Xlib") screen devices...
getGraphicsEvent()
par(savepar)