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tracking mouse position on Java WorldWind


I am trying to add a mouse listener to my globe using addMouseListener. It does not show any error, I am even able to add a mouseClicked(MouseEvent e), and still no errors. But finally when I am trying to get the current position using worldWindowGLCanvas1.getCurrentPosition() it shows NULL, even if I am clicking on the globe or outside... Can someone help me with doing this? Don't worry about extra spaces. I have modified since the website was not accepting my question :)


Solution

  • I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but this was working for me:

    final WorldWindowGLCanvas aCanvas = new WorldWindowGLCanvas();
    aCanvas.setModel(new BasicModel());
    aCanvas.getInputHandler().addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent pE) {
    
            Position aCurrentPosition = aCanvas.getCurrentPosition();
    
            //Or whatever work:      
            if(aCurrentPosition != null) {
    
                System.out.println("Current Pos= " + aCurrentPosition);
    
            } else {
    
                System.out.println("Current Pos is null!");
    
            }
        }
    });
    

    I added the null check to see if it would ever get null and it did not. The assumption this code is making is that a mouse click will re-center the globe to that position. Calling the aCanvas.getCurrentPosition() should return the center globe. If the canvas is not rendered or isn't visible, then this method would return null.