screen possition

Altair Forum User

Hi All

does any one know how to get the screen or window possiton of a fe node or element?

Altair Forum User

Hi

To clarify the question, I want to return the screen (pixel) coordinates of a node/element in the current screen view?

Altair Forum User

Hi there

I think this is similar to my question:

Retrieving Screen Coords of a Node

Maybe one should call the support to get an answer ...

Greetings

Thomas

Altair Forum User

Called the support - got no answer - but a colleague at work found out ...

Here is the solution:

# getScreenPosOfNode --##       Delivers the screen position of a node $nodeID. A node at the lower left#       corner of the viewport gives (0/0) - at the upper right corner (1/1).## Arguments:#       nodeID   node number to retrieve screen position for## Results:#       Returns a list of 2 values: relative x- and relative y-screen-positionproc getScreenPosOfNode {nodeID} {    set P [join [hm_nodevalue $nodeID]] ;# real world coords in global coord sys    set view [join [hm_getcurrentview]]    # extract transformation matrix T    set T [list [lrange $view 0 2] [lrange $view 4 6] [lrange $view 8 10]]    set v [lrange $view 12 14] ;# translation vector v    foreach {minx miny maxx maxy} [join [hm_getviewport]] {}    # rotational transformation: real world coords to screen coords (P-->P_)    set P_ {}    for {set row 0} {$row < 3} {incr row} {        set coord_ 0        for {set col 0} {$col < 3} {incr col} {            set coord_ [expr {$coord_+[lindex $T $col $row]*[lindex $P $col]}]        }        lappend P_ $coord_    }    # add translation (P_-->P_canvas)    set Px_canvas [expr {[lindex $P_ 0]+[lindex $v 0]}]    set Py_canvas [expr {[lindex $P_ 1]+[lindex $v 1]}]    # compute relative screen position    set Canvas_DeltaX [expr {$maxx-$minx}]    set Canvas_DeltaY [expr {$maxy-$miny}]    set P_relX [expr {($Px_canvas-$minx)/double($Canvas_DeltaX)}]    set P_relY [expr {($Py_canvas-$miny)/double($Canvas_DeltaY)}]    return [list $P_relX $P_relY]}