Java Zoom-Pan effect with functional mouselisteners

u should be able to transform the event coords.

Hi objects,
      Unless I am interpreting it wrongly, I am not sure if that can help me. Reason being I have a onMouseEnter for each sub-jPanel within the main jPanel that I am performing the zoom on. So after I perform a zoom of scale 2.0 on each axis with Graphics2D within paintComponent, a panel with dimensions (0,0,100,100) for example will still trigger onMouseEnter within those dimensions instead of within (0,0,200,200)
     I can go through each of those sub jpanels and resize & relocate them so the mouse events trigger correctly and use this as the "zoom" instead of graphics2d's scale, and it **should** work i believe, but I am trying to avoid that if possible.

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the mouse event will fire when the mouse is in the panel, and tx used is really irrelevant.

Hi again,
        I've tested this earlier and the mouse event doesn't fire till i get into the boundaries of the old jpanel dimension (0,0,100,100) in the previous example, instead of firing in the new dimensions of (0,0,200,200). Any reasons why? I am basically just scaling the entire jpanel using graphics2d.

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scaling doesn't change the dimensions of the panel. panel dimensions are always in screen coords.

so does that mean I would have to manually resize the dimensions of the panel in order for the mouseEvents to fire correctly in the scaled/zoomed image?

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well the mouse events are really firing correctly, they are just in screen coords.
If you need them in a different coord space then you need to transform them

Sorry for going back and forth, i'll increase the point value accordingly. The thing is i really dont mind which coord space the mouse events are; I just need the onMouseEnter/Over/etc for each of the jPanel to fire even in the resized/zoomed components. What is the best way to go about achieving this in your opinion?

If I transform the mouse events manually, dont i have to manually check for each of the mouseEvents for enter/over, instead of using the callbacks from Java?

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what exactly are you referring to as a 'zoomed' component.
Regardless of what transformations you do for your painting the component itself does not change in dimensions.

> If I transform the mouse events manually, dont i have to manually check for each of the mouseEvents > for enter/over, instead of using the callbacks from Java?

No, the mouse listener will get called when an event occurs. If you want the coords of the event in a different coord space then you just need to transform them appropriately.

when i refer to zoomed component, i mean a jFrame which is of fixed height and width, but the contents of the jFrame has everything resized to be larger. So zoom of 2.0 in the e.g. above means object of (0,0,100,100) dimensions is now (0,0,200,200).
Each time i do a "zoom"/scale, even though everything is drawn bigger, but the components are still the same size, so for the user, everything is twice the size but since the mouseOver/Enter/etc events are still based on the original smaller components, so everything is inaccurate. Does that make sense now?

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yes, I understand. And what I've said above still holds.
You need to transform the (screen) coordinates into the coordinate system of the coords you are comparing against (or visa versa)

i c... so basically there is no way for me to use the auto check provided by java except to get the screen coord of the mouse event and then perform a manual check myself for the objects it intersect in the viewport?

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what viewport are you referring to?

screen viewport or rather the root jFrame... so basically i would do something like

given mouseEvent me and scale s and translate t
take (0,0) (top left) and transform into the xformed coord sys ((0,0) * s + t) to get its point in xformed coord sys.
then ((diff of the current (0,0) and xformed (0,0)) + (me.x, me.y)) to get mouseEvent's position in xformed sys.
then reverse xform this point ((p-t)/s) to get point it corresponds to in image of original size
then go through the obj hierarchy to find components it intersect with and then manually call the mouseEvents for those components with me argument

correct?

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Thanks i got it!