Detect click in a diamond

Question

I want to detect if I click inside a diamond. The only thing I have are the coordinates of the click (x,y), the center of the diamond (x,y) and the width/height of the diamond.

I found this, but the problem is different. pixel coordinates on diamond

Answer 1

The answer that you linked actually contains everything you need: You can do the "Direct point position check" to detect whether a point is inside the diamond.

_{I assume that the diamonds can not be rotated or so, otherwise, the question would have been horribly imprecise.}

Here is an MCVE, implemented in Java/Swing as an example:

The relevant part is actually the Diamond#contains method at the bottom, which consists of the 4 lines of code taken from the other answer....

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.geom.Path2D;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;


public class DiamondClickTest
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }

    private static void createAndShowGUI()
    {
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        List<Diamond> diamonds = new ArrayList<Diamond>();
        diamonds.add(new Diamond("A", new Point(100,100), 180, 140));
        diamonds.add(new Diamond("B", new Point(300,100), 110, 160));
        diamonds.add(new Diamond("C", new Point(100,300), 110, 180));
        diamonds.add(new Diamond("D", new Point(300,300), 130, 150));

        DiamondClickTestPanel p = new DiamondClickTestPanel(diamonds);
        f.getContentPane().add(p);

        f.setSize(400,430);
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }

}

class DiamondClickTestPanel extends JPanel implements MouseMotionListener
{
    private List<Diamond> diamonds;
    private Diamond highlighedDiamond = null;

    DiamondClickTestPanel(List<Diamond> diamonds)
    {
        this.diamonds = diamonds;
        addMouseMotionListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics gr)
    {
        super.paintComponent(gr);
        Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)gr;
        g.setRenderingHint(
            RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, 
            RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

        for (Diamond diamond : diamonds)
        {
            draw(g, diamond);
        }
    }

    private void draw(Graphics2D g, Diamond diamond)
    {
        Point2D c = diamond.getCenter();
        double x0 = c.getX() + diamond.getWidth() * 0.5;
        double y0 = c.getY();
        double x1 = c.getX();
        double y1 = c.getY() - diamond.getHeight() * 0.5;
        double x2 = c.getX() - diamond.getWidth() * 0.5;
        double y2 = c.getY();
        double x3 = c.getX();
        double y3 = c.getY() + diamond.getHeight() * 0.5;

        Path2D p = new Path2D.Double();
        p.moveTo(x0, y0);
        p.lineTo(x1, y1);
        p.lineTo(x2, y2);
        p.lineTo(x3, y3);
        p.closePath();

        if (diamond == highlighedDiamond)
        {
            g.setColor(Color.RED);
            g.fill(p);
        }
        g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g.draw(p);
        g.drawString(diamond.getName(), (int)c.getX()-4, (int)c.getY()+8);
    }

    @Override
    public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
    {
    }

    @Override
    public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
    {
        double x = e.getX();
        double y = e.getY();
        highlighedDiamond = null;
        for (Diamond diamond : diamonds)
        {
            if (diamond.contains(x, y))
            {
                highlighedDiamond = diamond;
            }
        }
        repaint();
    }

}

class Diamond
{
    private String name;
    private Point2D center;
    private double width;
    private double height;

    Diamond(String name, Point2D center, double width, double height)
    {
        this.name = name;
        this.center = center;
        this.width = width;
        this.height = height;
    }

    String getName()
    {
        return name;
    }
    Point2D getCenter()
    {
        return center;
    }
    double getWidth()
    {
        return width;
    }
    double getHeight()
    {
        return height;
    }

    boolean contains(double x, double y)
    {
        double dx = Math.abs(x - center.getX());
        double dy = Math.abs(y - center.getY());
        double d = dx / width + dy / height;
        return d <= 0.5;
    }
}