Get object coordinates

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June 10, 2020
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I am trying to get the x,y, width, and height of an element/object/shape in order to determine if the mousup event x, y coordinates is contained with in the bounds of the element. This will be for a drag and drop type event.

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RodWard

Community Expert

You would need to use JavaScript code to achieve this.

Alternatively, you could use the Infosemantics CpExtra HTML5 plugin for Captivate:

Here is the object height: https://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/cpextra/help/command-variables/positioning-slide-objects#xcmndHeight

And the object width: https://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/cpextra/help/command-variables/positioning-slide-objects#xcmndWidth

While you are looking at these command variable help files you should probably look at the xcmndPosX and xcmndPosY variables as well.

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jpd005Author

Inspiring

Thank you so much for this information and I will definitely keep it as a reference. I am aware that JavaScript is required, but I guess I was not specific in my post. (it was late and I was frustrated)

But I have figured out away to do what I was needing to do.

Make the drop target a button with no actions
In JavaScript (for the slide, not the button), subscribe to the button’s mouse up event.
Test for which object I am dragging.

When the event triggers for that button, I know the mouse button was release over it. Which is all I really wanted anyway. I got so caught with trying to do collision detection this solution was evading me for about a month. (If someone needs code snippets for what I did, please reply.)

RodWard

Community Expert

By all means post your code snippet here. There are probably many users that would be interested to learn how to do this.

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