I am working with the google plus API for photospheres.
For showing a time lapse panorama I have set up two divs on top of each other which get iframes with the embedded panorama viewer.
Then I have set up a timer which blends over from the front to the back div and it all works fine.
I have set it up here on jsfiddle
My problem is, that those panoramas are interactive so you can click in it, drag it around and click again to resume autorotate or use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out. The moment I do that my two panoramas are no longer in sync so the "illusion" of time lapse does not work any more.
Is there a way to duplicate all mouse events and send them to both divs at the same time?
I was able to register clicks using jquery and
$('#firstDiv').click(function(){$('#seconddiv').click()})
but I am struggling to replicate the mouse dragging and wheel zooming to keep the two panoramas in sync.
You could maybe give this variation a shot:
$('#firstDiv).on('click', function(){
$('#secondDiv').trigger('click');
});
But it seems that the interactive controls for the sphere are handled on the google side. So, unless there's a callback option (by passing a query string parameter to the iframe) to enable explicit control, I'd say it's not possible.
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I am building a RN app. I have a page that displays some times in the week. The user clicks all the times they are free in. (Look at photo for visual representation)
Instead of having the user individually click on all the squares, how can you create a functionality where they can click on many squares at once by dragging their finger from the start square to the end one. Almost like how a mouse on a computer would work
Basically the question really is, if I drag my finger on the screen, how can i trigger all buttons I drag my finger across
This is not my project but the time slots kind of look like this
I don’t know if it’s possible… Some apps like Airbnb, Booking… don’t implement a drag action but the date range. The user selects a start and end dates to have multiple selections.
But maybe you could look at this library React Native Gesture Handler. It allow to simplify the gesture handler.
You should use Pan gesture to handle the drag behavior.
I'm building a HTML5 game and I am trying to put the mouse cursor over a certain control on a specific event so that moving in a specific direction always has the same result. Is this possible?
You cannot move the mousepointer with javascript.
Just think about the implications for a second, if you could ;)
User thinks: "hey I'd like to click this link"
Javascript moves mousecursor to another link
User clicks wrong link and inadvertently downloads malware that formats his c-drive and eats his candy
Run a small web server on the client machine. Can be a small 100kb thing. A Python / Perl script, etc.
Include a small, pre-compiled C executable that can move the mouse.
Run it as a CGI-script via a simple http call, AJAX, whatever - with the coordinates you want to move the mouse to, eg:
http://localhost:9876/cgi/mousemover?x=200&y=450
PS: For any problem, there are hundreds of excuses as to why, and how - it can't, and shouldn't - be done.. But in this infinite universe, it's really just a matter of determination - as to whether YOU will make it happen.
I would imagine you could accomplish placing the mouse cursor to a given area of the screen if you didn't use the real (system) mouse cursor.
For instance, you could create an image to act in place of your cursor, handle an event which upon detecting mouseenter into your scene, set the style on the system cursor to 'none' (sceneElement.style.cursor = 'none'), then would bring up a hidden image element acting as a cursor to be anywhere you like with in the scene based on a predefined axis/bounding box translation.
This way no matter how you moved the real cursor your translation method would keep your image cursor wherever you needed it.
edit: an example in jsFiddle using an image representation and forced mouse movement
Great question. This is really something missing from the Javascript browser API. I'm also working on a WebGL game with my team, and we need this feature. I opened an issue on Firefox's bugzilla so that we can start talking about the possibility of having an API to allow for mouse locking. This is going to be useful for all HTML5/WebGL game developers out there.
If you like, come over and leave a comment with your feedback, and upvote the issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630979
Thanks!
You could detect position of the mouse pointer and then move the web page (with body position relative) so they hover over what you want them to click.
For an example you can paste this code on the current page in your browser console (and refresh afterwards)
var upvote_position = $('#answer-12878316').position();
$('body').mousemove(function (event) {
$(this).css({
position: 'relative',
left: (event.pageX - upvote_position.left - 22) + 'px',
top: (event.pageY - upvote_position.top - 35) + 'px'
});
});
So, I know this is an old topic, but I'll first say it isn't possible. The closest thing currently is locking the mouse to a single position, and tracking change in its x and y. This concept has been adopted by - it looks like - Chrome and Firefox. It's managed by what's called Mouse Lock, and hitting escape will break it. From my brief read-up, I think the idea is that it locks the mouse to one location, and reports motion events similar to click-and-drag events.
Here's the release documentation:FireFox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Lock_APIChrome: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/mouse-lock
And here's a pretty neat demonstration: http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
You can't move a mouse but can lock it.
Note: that you must call requestPointerLock in click event.
Small Example:
var canvas = document.getElementById('mycanvas');
canvas.requestPointerLock = canvas.requestPointerLock || canvas.mozRequestPointerLock || canvas.webkitRequestPointerLock;
canvas.requestPointerLock();
Documentation and full code example:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Lock_API
Interesting. This isn't directly possible for the reasons called out earlier (spam clicks and malware injection), but consider this hack, which creates an impression of the same:
Step 1: Hide the cursor
Let's say you've a div, you can use this css property to hide the real cursor:
.your_div {
cursor: none
}
Step 2: Introduce a pseudo cursor
Simply create an image, a cursor look-alike,and place it within your webpage, with position:absolute.
Step 3: Track actual mouse movement
This is easy. Check internet on how to get real mouse location (X & Y coordinates).
Step 4: Move the pseudo cursor
As the actual cursor move, move your pseudo cursor by same X & Y difference. Similarly, you can always generate a click event at any location on your webpage with javascript magic (just search the internet on how-to).
Now at this point, you can control the pesudo cursor the way you want, and your user will get the impression that the real cursor is moving.
Fair Warning: Do not do it. No one wants their cursor or computer controlled this way, unless if you've some specific use-case, or if you are determined to flee your users away.
You can't move the mouse pointer using javascript, and thus for obvious security reasons. The best way to achieve this effect would be to actually place the control under the mouse pointer.
Couldn't this simply be done by getting actual position of the mouse pointer then calculating and compensating sprite/scene mouse actions based off this compensation?
For instance you need the mouse pointer to be bottom center, but it sits top left; hide the cursor, use a shifted cursor image. Shift the cursor movement and map mouse input to match re-positioned cursor sprite (or 'control') clicks When/if bounds are hit, recalculate. If/when the cursor actually hits the point you want it to be, remove compensation.
Disclaimer, not a game developer.
Recently I got an edited version of the JavaScript "Reel" by Pisi, which allows the user to use the mouse wheel to zoom in on a picture. The "reel" itself is working as a 360 view of an object, using many images which will jump to the next image in order when using mouse drag.
However, since I will use this application on a touch screen without a mouse I was thinking about rebinding the mouse wheel or adding events to a button which works like the mouse wheel. For example, below the DIV with the 360-slider I want two buttons, one that zooms in and one that zooms out. Any idea on how to make this work?
Any help is much appreciated!
I'm building a HTML5 game and I am trying to put the mouse cursor over a certain control on a specific event so that moving in a specific direction always has the same result. Is this possible?
You cannot move the mousepointer with javascript.
Just think about the implications for a second, if you could ;)
User thinks: "hey I'd like to click this link"
Javascript moves mousecursor to another link
User clicks wrong link and inadvertently downloads malware that formats his c-drive and eats his candy
Run a small web server on the client machine. Can be a small 100kb thing. A Python / Perl script, etc.
Include a small, pre-compiled C executable that can move the mouse.
Run it as a CGI-script via a simple http call, AJAX, whatever - with the coordinates you want to move the mouse to, eg:
http://localhost:9876/cgi/mousemover?x=200&y=450
PS: For any problem, there are hundreds of excuses as to why, and how - it can't, and shouldn't - be done.. But in this infinite universe, it's really just a matter of determination - as to whether YOU will make it happen.
I would imagine you could accomplish placing the mouse cursor to a given area of the screen if you didn't use the real (system) mouse cursor.
For instance, you could create an image to act in place of your cursor, handle an event which upon detecting mouseenter into your scene, set the style on the system cursor to 'none' (sceneElement.style.cursor = 'none'), then would bring up a hidden image element acting as a cursor to be anywhere you like with in the scene based on a predefined axis/bounding box translation.
This way no matter how you moved the real cursor your translation method would keep your image cursor wherever you needed it.
edit: an example in jsFiddle using an image representation and forced mouse movement
Great question. This is really something missing from the Javascript browser API. I'm also working on a WebGL game with my team, and we need this feature. I opened an issue on Firefox's bugzilla so that we can start talking about the possibility of having an API to allow for mouse locking. This is going to be useful for all HTML5/WebGL game developers out there.
If you like, come over and leave a comment with your feedback, and upvote the issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630979
Thanks!
You could detect position of the mouse pointer and then move the web page (with body position relative) so they hover over what you want them to click.
For an example you can paste this code on the current page in your browser console (and refresh afterwards)
var upvote_position = $('#answer-12878316').position();
$('body').mousemove(function (event) {
$(this).css({
position: 'relative',
left: (event.pageX - upvote_position.left - 22) + 'px',
top: (event.pageY - upvote_position.top - 35) + 'px'
});
});
So, I know this is an old topic, but I'll first say it isn't possible. The closest thing currently is locking the mouse to a single position, and tracking change in its x and y. This concept has been adopted by - it looks like - Chrome and Firefox. It's managed by what's called Mouse Lock, and hitting escape will break it. From my brief read-up, I think the idea is that it locks the mouse to one location, and reports motion events similar to click-and-drag events.
Here's the release documentation:FireFox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Lock_APIChrome: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/mouse-lock
And here's a pretty neat demonstration: http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
You can't move a mouse but can lock it.
Note: that you must call requestPointerLock in click event.
Small Example:
var canvas = document.getElementById('mycanvas');
canvas.requestPointerLock = canvas.requestPointerLock || canvas.mozRequestPointerLock || canvas.webkitRequestPointerLock;
canvas.requestPointerLock();
Documentation and full code example:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Lock_API
Interesting. This isn't directly possible for the reasons called out earlier (spam clicks and malware injection), but consider this hack, which creates an impression of the same:
Step 1: Hide the cursor
Let's say you've a div, you can use this css property to hide the real cursor:
.your_div {
cursor: none
}
Step 2: Introduce a pseudo cursor
Simply create an image, a cursor look-alike,and place it within your webpage, with position:absolute.
Step 3: Track actual mouse movement
This is easy. Check internet on how to get real mouse location (X & Y coordinates).
Step 4: Move the pseudo cursor
As the actual cursor move, move your pseudo cursor by same X & Y difference. Similarly, you can always generate a click event at any location on your webpage with javascript magic (just search the internet on how-to).
Now at this point, you can control the pesudo cursor the way you want, and your user will get the impression that the real cursor is moving.
Fair Warning: Do not do it. No one wants their cursor or computer controlled this way, unless if you've some specific use-case, or if you are determined to flee your users away.
You can't move the mouse pointer using javascript, and thus for obvious security reasons. The best way to achieve this effect would be to actually place the control under the mouse pointer.
Couldn't this simply be done by getting actual position of the mouse pointer then calculating and compensating sprite/scene mouse actions based off this compensation?
For instance you need the mouse pointer to be bottom center, but it sits top left; hide the cursor, use a shifted cursor image. Shift the cursor movement and map mouse input to match re-positioned cursor sprite (or 'control') clicks When/if bounds are hit, recalculate. If/when the cursor actually hits the point you want it to be, remove compensation.
Disclaimer, not a game developer.
I have seen a feature on a site I would like to emulate. I have intermediate php skill but am a novice javascript user. The feature is the site content displayed in divs which can be moved around on the screen and their position saved using cookies. This site: [url]www.nowgamer.com[/url] is where I saw it (latest podcasts, videos, reviews etc with filter)
How would I go about achieving this through javscript? I want to know how to connect javascript with the cookie so that the positions of the square divs are saved, as are the preferences of the content filter on each div. How can I achieve this?
Would this be a big job? Thank you for any help, I am working independently on this in my spare time so your contribution with advice is my lifeline.
As Zoidberg commented, its easy with JQuery or Yui, or any other javascript library that provides drag & drop functionality. They are almost easy to configure, checking at demo they give. They also expose certain events like beforeDrag, afterDrag, onDrop, etc. where you can fire a simple js function check the elements' dropped position store it in cookies. For setting cookies, there are world of code on internet.
Also, you might want to check floating absolute/relative positioning css, if your DOM divs are going to be floating around the page.
GoodLuck.
simplyharsh has the proper answer, but I'd like to expand on it a bit:
The basics of a draggable div aren't too complicated. You attach an onclick handler to initiate the dragging. Internally, that's accomplished by changing the div's CSS so it's position: absolute. Then you start monitoring mouse movements (basically onmousemove) and changing the div's top and left according to the movements you've captured.
Dropping is a bit more complicated. You can always just release the mouse and leave the div wherever you ended up moving it, but that leaves it absolutely positioned and therefore outside of normal document flow. But dropping it "inside" some other element means a lot of prep work.
Because of how mouseover/mouseout/mouseenter events work, they WON'T work while you're dragging an element - you've got your draggable div under the mouse at all times, so there's no mouseenter/leave events being fired on the rest of the page. jquery/mootools and the like work around it letting you specify drop zones. The locations/sizes of these zones are precalculated and as you're dragging. Then, as you're dragging, the dragged object's position is compared to these precalculated drop zone locations for every move event. If you "enter" one of those zones, then internally the libraries fire their mouseenter/mouseleave/mouseover events to simulate an actual mouseenter/leave/over event having occured.
If you drop inside a zone, the div gets attached as a child of that zone. If you drop outside, then it will usually "snap back" to where it was when you initiated the drag.
Resizing is somewhat similar, except you're adjusting height and width instead of top and left.