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    Class PanningTool

    The PanningTool supports manual panning, where the user can shift the Diagram.position by dragging the mouse.

    This tool is a standard mouse-move tool, the ToolManager.panningTool. Although the ToolManager.dragSelectingTool takes precedence over this tool, the DragSelectingTool only starts if there is a delay after a mouse-down event. If it does not start, then this PanningTool gets a chance to start.

    This tool does not utilize any Adornments or tool handles. This tool does not modify the model or conduct any transaction.

    If you want to programmatically "pan" the diagram, you can just set Diagram.position or call methods such as Diagram.scroll, Diagram.scrollToRect, or Diagram.centerRect.

    Hierarchy (View Summary)

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    Constructors

    Accessors

    • get bubbles(): boolean

      Gets or sets whether panning actions will allow events to bubble instead of panning in the diagram.

      Set this to true to allow mobile devices to scroll the page with panning gestures on the diagram. Otherwise, the panning events will be captured and used to pan inside of the diagram.

      The default value is false.

      Returns boolean

    • get diagram(): Diagram

      This read-only property returns the Diagram that owns this tool and for which this tool is handling input events.

      Returns Diagram

    • get isActive(): boolean

      Gets or sets whether this tool is started and is actively doing something.

      You can set this to true after your tool is started (i.e. when it is the Diagram.currentTool and doStart had been called), but when it is not yet in a state that it is actually "doing" something, because it is waiting for the right circumstances. This is typically only important when the tool is used in a modal fashion.

      The default value is false. This is normally set by doActivate and doDeactivate.

      Returns boolean

    • get isEnabled(): boolean

      Gets or sets whether this tool can be started by a mouse event.

      Set this to false to prevent canStart from returning true. Setting this property to false should prevent this tool from being used in a mode-less fashion by the ToolManager with a mouse down/move/up event. However, even when this property is false, this tool can still be used in a modal fashion: it can still be started by explicitly setting the Diagram.currentTool property to this tool.

      The default value is true.

      Returns boolean

    • get name(): string

      Gets or sets the name of this tool. The default name is an empty string, but the constructor for each instance of a subclass of Tool will initialize it appropriately. For example, the name of the DragSelectingTool is "DragSelecting".

      This name is sometimes used by tools that use Adornments as the Part.category for their Adornments. It is also sometimes used by tools that conduct transactions as the transaction name.

      Returns string

    • get originalPosition(): Point

      This property returns the Point that was the original value of Diagram.position when the panning operation started. However, custom derivations of the PanningTool might want to allow the movement of objects.

      Returns Point

    • get originalScale(): number

      This property returns the scale that was the original value of Diagram.scale when the panning operation started. However, custom derivations of the PanningTool might want to allow the scaling of objects.

      Returns number

      since

      4.0

    • get transactionResult(): string | null

      Gets or sets the name of the transaction to be committed by stopTransaction

      If null, the transaction will be rolled back.

      If this is non-null at the time of a call to stopTransaction, it calls Diagram.commitTransaction with this transaction name; if this is null at that time, it calls Diagram.rollbackTransaction.

      The default value is null; startTransaction will also set this to null. Because a value of null when stopTransaction is called will rollback the transaction, it is important that your code sets this property to a non-null value when it thinks it has succeeded.

      This property exists so that no matter what execution path occurs to end the usage of a tool, any ongoing transaction can be properly committed or rolled-back. Many tools call startTransaction and stopTransaction; thus they set this property for their transaction to be committed. doCancel also sets this property to null.

      Returns string | null

    Methods

    • This is called to cancel any running "WaitAfter" timer.

      This is called when a tool is stopped.

      This method is rarely overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • This tool can run when the diagram allows scrolling and the mouse has been dragged with the left button far enough away from the mouse-down point to avoid being a click.

      This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns boolean

    • This method controls for some Tools whether canStart may return true depending on the button being used. Normally this returns true if InputEvent.left is true. This method may be overridden to consider other buttons, or to ignore which button by just returning true.

      Returns boolean

      true, if the left mouse button is being held down

      since

      4.0

    • As of version 4, this predicate method is no longer called by the ToolManager. Most of the responsibility for pinch zooming has been moved to the PanningTool.

      Returns boolean

      deprecated
    • Release the mouse and restore the default diagram cursor.

      Returns void

    • The diagram will call this method upon a key down event. By default this just calls doCancel if the key is the ESCAPE key. Implementations of this method can look at Diagram.lastInput to get the key.

      This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • The diagram will call this method upon a key up event. Implementations of this method can look at Diagram.lastInput to get the key.

      By default this method does nothing. This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • Set various initial properties.

      Returns void

    • The diagram will call this method as the mouse wheel is rotated. Implementations of this method can look at Diagram.lastInput to get the mouse event and input state.

      By default this method does nothing. (But the ToolManager.doMouseWheel override will call Tool.standardMouseWheel.) This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • The Diagram calls this method when this tool becomes the current tool; you should not call this method. Tool implementations should perform their per-use initialization here, such as setting up internal data structures, or capturing the mouse. Implementations of this method can look at Diagram.lastInput to get the mouse event and input state.

      You should not call this method -- only the Diagram.currentTool property setter should call this method.

      By default this method does nothing. This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      If you override this method, it is commonplace to also override doStop to clean up whatever you set up in this method.

      Returns void

    • The Diagram calls this method when this tool stops being the current tool; you should not call this method. Tool implementations should perform their per-use cleanup here, such as releasing mouse capture.

      You should not call this method -- only the Diagram.currentTool property setter should call this method. If you want to stop a tool unexpectedly, you should call doCancel. If your implementation of a tool wants to stop itself, you should call stopTool.

      By default this method does nothing. This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      It is commonplace to override this method in order to clean up whatever you have set up in an override of doStart.

      Returns void

    • This is called a certain delay after a call to standardWaitAfter if there has not been any call to cancelWaitAfter. The ToolManager overrides this method in order to implement support for mouse-hover behavior and tooltips.

      By default this does nothing. This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Parameters

      Returns void

    • This convenience function finds the front-most GraphObject that is at a given point and that is an element of an Adornment that is of a given category. The tool handle must be an immediate element of the Adornment, not a GraphObject that is nested within Panels within the Adornment.

      This method is very infrequently overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Parameters

      Returns GraphObject | null

    • Return true when the last mouse point is far enough away from the first mouse down point to constitute a drag operation instead of just a potential click.

      This uses the value of ToolManager.dragSize. On touch devices the value is automatically increased to accommodate the unavoidable movement of fingers.

      This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Parameters

      Returns boolean

    • Called for pointer move and pointer up events, including when multi-touch. By default this assigns Diagram.position and, if the value of newscale is different it sets Diagram.scale using the scalecenter argument as the Diagram.zoomPoint, and it ignores the newangle and angle parameters.

      Override this method to customize behavior as the user pans or pinches, perhaps modifying a selected object instead of Diagram properties. See the Pinch Rescaling Tool sample for such an example.

      This method does not normally perform a transaction, so if you want to modify some GraphObjects, you will need to conduct a transaction by calling Tool.startTransaction in an override of doActivate and Tool.stopTransaction in an override of doDeactivate, and set Tool.transactionResult in your override of Tool.doMouseUp.

      Parameters

      • newposition: Point

        a proposed new position in document coordinates, computed as the position plus the offset of the pointer or multi-touch center from the previous point

      • newscale: number

        a proposed new scale, computed as the originalScale times the factor of the current distance and the initialDistance

      • newangle: number

        a proposed new angle, computed as the originalAngle plus the difference between the current angle and the initialAngle

      • dist: number

        the distance between the first and second multi-touch points, in viewport coordinates, or zero if not a multi-touch event

      • angle: number

        the angle between the first and second multi-touch points

      • scalecenter: Point

        the middle point between the first and second multi-touch points, in viewport coordinates

      Returns void

      since

      4.0

    • Implement the standard behavior for mouse clicks, searching for and calling click handler functions on GraphObjects or on Diagram, and raising the corresponding DiagramEvent.

      A click on a GraphObject of the diagram will raise one of the following DiagramEvents: "ObjectSingleClicked", "ObjectDoubleClicked", or "ObjectContextClicked". This will also look at the corresponding click property: GraphObject.click, GraphObject.doubleClick, or GraphObject.contextClick. If the value is a function, this will call it, passing the current InputEvent and the GraphObject. If the value is null, it tries looking at the parent GraphObject.panel, and so on, walking up the visual tree until it finds the appropriate function to call. After calling the click function, if the value of InputEvent.handled is false, this method will continue walking up the visual tree looking for more click functions to call. Once it has looked at the top-level object (a Part) for a click function, this method stops.

      A click in the background of the diagram will raise one of the following DiagramEvents: "BackgroundSingleClicked", "BackgroundDoubleClicked", or "BackgroundContextClicked". This will also look at the corresponding click property: Diagram.click, Diagram.doubleClick, or Diagram.contextClick. If the value is a function, this will call it, passing the current InputEvent.

      This method is not responsible for selecting or deselecting any parts. Call standardMouseSelect for that functionality.

      Note that this calls GraphObject.isEnabledObject on the target object; if it returns false, no click action will occur.

      The ClickSelectingTool calls this method in its override of doMouseUp in order to raise "click" events. Note that by default GraphObjects in Layers that are Layer.isTemporary will not be "clicked". To change that behavior it is easiest to set GraphObject.isActionable to true on those objects for which you wish to handle "click" events. Then the ActionTool's doMouseUp override will raise the standard "click" events.

      This method may be overridden, but you should consider calling this base method in order to get all of its functionality. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Type Parameters

      Parameters

      • Optionalnavig: ((a: GraphObject) => T | null) | null

        An optional custom navigation function to find target objects. This argument is passed to Diagram.findObjectAt.

      • Optionalpred: ((a: T) => boolean) | null

        An optional custom predicate function to find target objects. A null value is effectively the same as a function that always returns true. This argument is passed to Diagram.findObjectAt, unless the value is undefined, which means to use a predicate to consider only objects in layers holding permanent objects.

      Returns boolean

      true if InputEvent.handled had been set to true on the Diagram.lastInput.

    • Implement the standard behavior for mouse enter, over, and leave events, where the mouse is moving but no button is pressed. This should be called by mouse move event handlers when wanting to detect and invoke mouse enter/over/leave event handlers.

      The GraphObject.mouseEnter property provides a function to call when the mouse first enters an object or any of its contained objects (if the object is actually a Panel).

      The GraphObject.mouseLeave property provides a function to call when the mouse leaves an object and all of its contained objects (if the object is actually a Panel).

      The GraphObject.mouseOver property and Diagram.mouseOver properties provide functions to call when the mouse moves but stays within the same GraphObject or when the mouse moves in the background of the Diagram.

      This method is also responsible for updating the Diagram.currentCursor according to the value of GraphObject.cursor and Diagram.defaultCursor.

      This method may be overridden, but you should consider calling this base method in order to get all of its functionality. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • Implement the standard behavior for selecting parts with the mouse, depending on the control and shift modifier keys.

      Control-clicking on a part will select it if it wasn't already, and will deselect if it had been selected. Shift-clicking on a part will add it to the selection (if it wasn't already). Otherwise, clicking on a part will select it (if it wasn't already).

      Note that there are restrictions on selection. For example, a part cannot be selected in this manner if Part.selectable is false, or if Diagram.maxSelectionCount would be exceeded.

      A left click in the background of the diagram with no modifier keys clears the selection.

      This method does not implement any click event behavior -- that is implemented by standardMouseClick.

      The ClickSelectingTool calls this method in its override of doMouseUp in order to change the selection.

      This method may be overridden, but you should consider calling this base method in order to get all of its functionality. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • As of version 4, this method is no longer called by the ToolManager. Most of the responsibility for pinch zooming has been moved to the PanningTool.

      Returns void

      deprecated
    • As of version 4, this method is no longer called by the ToolManager. Most of the responsibility for pinch zooming has been moved to the PanningTool.

      Returns void

      deprecated
    • This is called to start a new timer to call doWaitAfter after a given delay. It first cancels any previously running "WaitAfter" timer, by calling cancelWaitAfter.

      This is normally used to implement mouse hover and mouse hold events. If the mouse has moved, it must not have moved beyond the distance as determined by Tool.isBeyondDragSize for it be considered "stationary". So the regular ToolManager.doMouseMove implementation only calls this method when the mouse has moved beyond the drag size.

      This method is rarely overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Parameters

      Returns void

    • If the Diagram.currentTool is this tool, stop this tool and start the Diagram.defaultTool by making it be the new current tool. The implementation of various tool methods can call this method to stop the current tool. This will call doStop -- you should not call that method directly.

      If you want to stop the current tool and have it restore the original state, call doCancel. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Returns void

    • The diagram asks each tool to update any adornments the tool might use for a given part. If the tool uses its own tool handles, this should display them or hide them as appropriate. Typically this should only show them if the part is selected.

      By default this method does nothing. This method may be overridden. Please read the Learn page on Extensions for how to override methods and how to call this base method.

      Parameters

      Returns void