[solved] mouseover to highlight image buttons

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• sebastiaan

  September 2014 edited 8:38AM

  Hi Jan-Maarten,

  Welcome (finally!) to the forum. The short answer is that forms do not provide mouse-over functionality. However, if you really want this functionality, you could implement your own form programmatically. This may be more trouble than it's worth though, but here's a quick script to get you started.

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  from openexp.canvas import canvas
  from openexp.mouse import mouse
  
  # A list of button texts
  buttons = [
      'Click me!',
      'No click me!',
      'Leave me alone',
      'Avoid me'
      ]
  
  # Specify the geometry
  cols = 2
  button_width = 300
  button_height = 100
  margin = 50
  
  # Create a canvas and a mouse object. We set the timeout to 0 so that we can
  # poll the mouse continuously
  my_canvas = canvas(exp)
  my_mouse = mouse(exp, timeout=0, visible=True)
  
  # Loop until a mouse button was clicked.
  button_clicked = None
  while button_clicked == None:
      # Get a mouse click
      mouse_button = my_mouse.get_click()[0]
      # Get cursor position
      cx, cy = my_mouse.get_pos()[0]
      my_canvas.clear()
      # Loop through all the buttons. `enumerate()` is a built-in Python function
      # that also returns indices for the list that you walk through.
      for i, button in enumerate(buttons):
          # Determine the column and row of a button, based om the buttons index.
          col = i % cols
          row = i / cols
          # From there, determine the x and y coordinates of the button's top
          # left corner.
          x = margin + col * (margin+button_width)
          y = margin + row * (margin+button_height)
          # If the cursor was over this button, choose a color to highlight the
          # button.
          if cx > x and cx < x+button_width and cy > y and cy < y+button_height:
              color = 'blue'
              # ... and if this button was clicked, take note of this
              if mouse_button != None:
                  button_clicked = button 
          # Otherwise stick to white.
          else:
              color = 'white'
          # Draw the button!
          my_canvas.rect(x, y, button_width, button_height, color=color)
          my_canvas.text(button, x=x+button_width/2, y=y+button_height/2)
      my_canvas.show()
  # Set button_clicked as an experimental variable, so that you can log it etc.
  exp.set('button_clicked', button_clicked)
  

  
  
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• Jan-Maarten

  September 2014 edited 8:38AM

  Thank you! I'll have to see whether I can do this within the time frame for our current study, but it will be great for future reference!

  Cheers, Jan-Maarten