Taking a break from the Holidays I managed to fix local and global transformations among other things, which enable a simple shape to be dragged with little effort, let's see a "live" example this time



If the animation runs slow is because I'm still getting familiar with Wink's options. Here is the code for the example
def dragMe = { e -> def point = e.event.point def shape = e.sourceShape shape.x = point.x - (shape.width/2) shape.y = point.y - (shape.height/2) } rect( width: 50, height: 50, mouseDragged: dragMe ){ gradientPaint( y2: 50, color2: 'red' ) } rect( x: 50, y: 50, width: 50, height: 50 ){ gradientPaint( y2: 50, color2: 'blue' ) }You'll notice two interesting properties on the event received in dragMe, which works as a GraphicaInputListener:

• event: the mouse or key event
• sourceShape: the shape operation where the event took place

You'll also notice that as the mouse moves over the blue rectangle, the red rectangle is not dragged anymore, because the blue one is drawn after the red one, getting first pick on events if they happen to share a space. I'm still looking for and option to enable usual calls as sendToFront or sendToBack into GraphicsPanel.

Groovy Holidays!

Update: apologies if you can't see the flash animation on IE, JRoller doesn't allow .swf as extension on file uploads I had to change it to .png, besides IE sucks big time the animation works perfectly on Firefox though. I'd look for an alternative.