topic Movable hotspot in Libraries & objects

Movable hotspot

rengarch — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:03:41 GMT

Could anyone help. Here is the GDL for a movable hotspot for moving text in an object. Whenever I try to move the hotspot, the text jumps to unexpected locations. Why?

2 parameters are inserted in the parameters window
horz - length parameter, which is the horzontal location of the text
verti - length parameter, which is the vertical location of the text

it almost seems like the coordinates needs to be reset????
Thanks

___________________________GDL
unID=1

!_________________________moving it horizontally
hotspot2 horz,verti,unID,horz,1+128 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 -1,verti,unID,horz,3 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 horz,verti,unID,horz,2+256 : unID=unID+1

!_________________________moving it vertically
hotspot2 horz,verti,unID,verti,1+128 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 horz,-1,unID,verti,3 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 horz,verti,unID,verti,2+256 : unID=unID+1

define style 'identify' ft,fsize,1,0
set style 'identify'

text2 horz,verti,ID

Re: Movable hotspot

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:35:42 GMT

Try this:

unID=1

!_________________________moving it horizontally
hotspot2 0,verti,unID,horz,1+128 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 -1,verti,unID,horz,3 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 horz,verti,unID,horz,2+256 : unID=unID+1

!_________________________moving it vertically
hotspot2 horz,0,unID,verti,1+128 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 horz,-1,unID,verti,3 : unID=unID+1
hotspot2 horz,verti,unID,verti,2+256 : unID=unID+1

define style 'identify' ft,fsize,1,0
set style 'identify'

text2 horz,verti,ID

Peter Devlin

Re: Movable hotspot

rengarch — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:25:59 GMT

Thank you so much Peter, that did the trick.
I finally understand how to script this movable hotspot.
The manual is sooooooo cryptic.