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Changing setScale origin/center

Postby Gijs » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:39 pm

For the 744's EICAS, I'm trying to make a line (or rectangle) grow in one direction.It's the red area in the image below. I thought simply scaling the area in the Y direction, with the objects origin at the bottom line would work, but apparently not.

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eng1n1refLine.setScale(4*getprop("controls/engines/engine/throttle"),1);

setScale() scales from the origin of the canvas instead of the object's center (or origin). This results in a red area moving up/down over the entire canvas. I've tried running .setCenter() on the object, but that has no effect. What did I miss?

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Re: Changing setScale origin/center

Postby TheTom » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:02 am

I will think about how to best handle a center and different transformations. For now do it just how transformations are normally combined (move to center, apply transformation, move back):
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# initialize
var c = eng1n1refLine.getCenter();
eng1n1refLine.createTransform().setTranslation(-c[0], -c[1]);
var tf_scale = eng1n1refLine.createTransform();
eng1n1refLine.createTransform().setTranslation(c[0], c[1]);

# update
tf_scale.setScale(4*getprop("controls/engines/engine/throttle"), 1);
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Re: Changing setScale origin/center

Postby Gijs » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:16 pm

Your code gives the exact same behaviour :shock:
The blue area is scaled in the image below. From left to right, the throttle property (and thus the scale factor) is increasing from 0 on the most left image. You can see that it scales as if the top of the canvas is the origin of the blue area.

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My complete code (the blue area is "path3104"): http://pastebin.com/npz9aE5K

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Re: Changing setScale origin/center  

Postby TheTom » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:48 pm

Gijs wrote in Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:16 pm:Your code gives the exact same behaviour :shock:

The your object probably has no center offset specified in which case it defaults to [0, 0]. Either call updateCenter() before retrieving the center, calculate it somehow on your own or set it using inkscape (drag around the rotation center using MMB). In the SVG file you can specifiy the offset from the objects origin with center-offset-x/y respectively.
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Re: Changing setScale origin/center

Postby Gijs » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:07 pm

Cool, updateCenter() did the trick! Thanks!
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Re: Changing setScale origin/center

Postby zakalawe » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:28 pm

Gijs, I'm looking forward to stealing all of these for the 737NG :)
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Re: Changing setScale origin/center

Postby Gijs » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:46 pm

That's ok, if I can steal your CDU for my 744 :-)
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