What a drag?

[Jerry]

What is viz.drag() supposed to do? When I run

duck = viz.add('duck.wrl')
duck.translate(0,1.5,4)
viz.grab(viz.Mouse,duck)

the duck moves with the mouse but doesn't stay under the cursor
as one might expect if it were being dragged.

PS - Is Vizard compatible with Vista?

[Jerry]

I meant viz.grab()

[farshizzo]

The viz.grab() command is not meant to be used for dragging objects with the mouse. Look at the tutorial_grab.py script in the [Vizard30]\tutorial\link directory for an example. It's mostly used when you are doing some sort of hand tracking and you want to simulate grabbing an object.

[Gladsomebeast]

viz.grab() with the mouse makes sense if the object you are grabbing is on the screen.

import viz
viz.go()


screenText = viz.addText('GrabME', viz.SCREEN)
s = 1
screenText.scale(s,s,s)
screenText.setPosition(.5, .5)

grabLink = None

def onMouseDown(button):
	global grabLink
	if grabLink:
		#in case we missed mouse up event
		grabLink.remove()
	grabLink = viz.grab( viz.Mouse, screenText )

viz.callback(viz.MOUSEDOWN_EVENT,onMouseDown)


def onMouseUp(button):
	global grabLink
	grabLink.remove()
	grabLink = None

viz.callback(viz.MOUSEUP_EVENT,onMouseUp)