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Interaction With Mouse and Keyboard-Lecture-4a

The document discusses how to handle mouse and keyboard interactions in an application. It describes how to define callback functions that take parameters for mouse button, state, and position to handle mouse events, with the y position measured from the top of the window. It also explains how to define a callback that takes the ASCII key value and mouse position to handle keyboard events. An example is provided that draws a dot when the left mouse button is pressed and exits when the right button is pressed.

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Interaction With Mouse and Keyboard-Lecture-4a

The document discusses how to handle mouse and keyboard interactions in an application. It describes how to define callback functions that take parameters for mouse button, state, and position to handle mouse events, with the y position measured from the top of the window. It also explains how to define a callback that takes the ASCII key value and mouse position to handle keyboard events. An example is provided that draws a dot when the left mouse button is pressed and exits when the right button is pressed.

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Interaction with Mouse

and Keyboard
Introduction
• Data about the mouse is sent to the application by
designing the callback function myMouse() to take four
parameters, so that it has the prototype:
• void myMouse(int button, int state, int x, int y);
• When a mouse event occurs the system calls the
registered function, supplying it with values for these
parameters.
• The value of button will be one of:
• GLUT_LEFT_BUTTON, GLUT_MIDDLE_BUTTON, OR
GLUT_RIGHT_BUTTON,
• with the obvious interpretation, and the value of state
will be one of: GLUT_UP or GLUT_DOWN.
• The values x and y report the position of the mouse at
the time of the event.
• Note: The x value is the number of pixels from the left
of the window as expected, but the y value is the
number of pixels down from the top of the window.
Example: Placing dots with the
mouse
•  Each time a user presses down the left mouse button a
dot is drawn in the screen window at the mouse
position.
• If the user presses the right button the program
terminates.
• The function myMouse() in mouseInteraction.cpp does
this.
• Because the y-value of the mouse position is the
number of pixels from the top of the screen window, a
dot is drawn, not at (x, y), but at (x, screenHeight – y),
where screenHeight is assumed to be the height of the
window in pixels.
void myMouse(int button, int state, int x, int y)
{
if(button == GLUT_LEFT_BUTTON && state ==
GLUT_DOWN)
drawDot(x, screenHeight -y);
else if(button == GLUT_RIGHT_BUTTON && state ==
GLUT_DOWN)
exit(-1);
}
Interaction with the Keyboard
• Pressing a key on the keyboard queues a keyboard event.
• The callback function myKeyboard() is registered with this
type of event through glutKeyboardFunc(myKeyboard).
• It must have prototype: 
void myKeyboard(unsigned int key, int x, int y); 
• The value of key is the ASCII value of the key pressed.
• The values x and y report the position of the mouse at the
time that the event occurred.
• (As before y measures the number of pixels down from the
top of the window).
• You capitalize on the many keys on the keyboard to
offer the user a large number of choices to invoke at
any point in a program.
• Most implementations of myKeyboard() consist of a
large switch statement, with a case for each key of
interest.
• An example is given in the WV-rectangle.cpp code.

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