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The Image Map control lets you display a background image with regions identified by its coordinates {x, y} and a size. Each defined region can have an image to display on the coordinates defined for it, with an indicated size. Each region corresponds to one item of the list (grid). When a region is selected, the default action associated with it will be run.

This control applies to the Grid control.

Suppose you are interested in representing the parts of a car:

SD Image Map - car example

Start by defining the following Transaction with the Work With pattern applied.

TRNImageMap
{
       TRNImageMapId*          Id
       TRNImageMapX            Numeric(4.0)
       TRNImageMapY            Numeric(4.0)
       TRNImageMapSize         Numeric(4.0)
       TRNImageMapImage        Image
       TRNImageMapInfo         VarChar(200)
}

Before continuing with this example, you may need to understand how this control works.

As already mentioned, this control lets you display a background image with regions identified by its coordinates. The coordinates start ({o,o} coordinate) in the upper left corner of the background image; the X-axis is horizontal to the background image and extends to the right; the Y-axis is vertical to the background image and extends downwards.

So, when you create a new Transaction object you need to define at least the following four attributes, as shown in the image:

  • X coordinate: This will represent the x coordinate of the region where it will have its left upper corner. In the Transaction of the example, this attribute is TRNImageMapX and its type must be Numeric.
  • Y coordinate: This will represent the y coordinate of the region where it will have its left upper corner. In the Transaction of the example, this attribute is TRNImageMapY and its type must be Numeric.
  • Size: This will represent the size of the region. For example, if you define coordinates {0,0} and a size of 100, the region will be represented by the square defined by the points {0,0} and {100,100}. In the Transaction of the example, this attribute is TRNImageMapSize and its type must be Numeric.
  • Image: This will be used to display an Image as a layout background on the region defined by the x and y coordinates and of the size defined. In the Transaction of the example, this attribute is TRNImageMapImage and its type must be Image.
Note: The attribute TRNImageMapInfo is not necessary; it will be used in this example to show information about the region when it's selected.

Once the Work With pattern has been applied, you need to enable the Image Map control on the grid. To do so, open the List section, select the grid and set the Control Type property to Image Map.

ImageMapControlType-GeneXus17

This will enable some other properties, as seen in the previous image:

Image Map properties Description

Image

Used for selecting the background image (*).

Horizontal Coordinate Attribute

This is the attribute that represents the x coordinate for the upper left corner of each region.

Vertical Coordinate Attribute

This is the attribute that represents the y coordinate for the upper left corner of each region.

Size Attribute

This is the attribute that represents the size of each region.

Image Map methods (*)

Syntax

Grid1.SetBackGroundImage(Image)

Where:

Grid1
      Is the control name of the Image Map grid

Image
      Is a variable or attribute of Image data type

Continuing with the example, set the properties as follows:

Image

carOutline (This image must be in the KB)

Horizontal Coordinate Attribute

TRNImageMapX

Vertical Coordinate Attribute

TRNImageMapY

Size Attribute

TRNImageMapSize

Then, insert in the Grid's table, the image attribute that will be displayed as the background for each region.

The result must be as shown below:

ImageMapPropertiesSet-GeneXus17

Now you are done, so press F5.

ImageMapList

Select one of the regions by tapping on the image that represents it, and see what happens.

ImageMapGeneral

As you may have noticed, when you select a region, the default action will be run. In this case, the General section is shown.

In the example, three new car parts were created (records in a Transaction) and in the General section, all the attributes were deleted from the layout except for TRNImageMapInfo, because that's the only attribute wanted to be displayed.

Notes

  • The coordinates are relative to the size of the background image. For example, if you have an image of 800x600 and coordinates {500, 200} for a region, and a resolution of 1024x768, the image of that region will be shown at {500*1024/800, 200*768/600} = {640, 256}.
  • Images bigger than the device's resolution won't be displayed. For example, if you have a device with a resolution of 1024x768 and an image of 2048x1536, it won't be displayed.
  • Since GeneXus X Evolution 3, to make it easier to position the items within the image when executing in the iPhone Simulator, if you tap anywhere on the image, the coordinates of the tapped point are logged in the Xcode console.

Other Methods

LongTap

Triggered when the user performs a long-tap gesture on the image map.

Parameters:

  • &hCoord, &vCoord: the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the long-tapped point. Coordinates are relative to the image's dimensions.

Example:

Event Grid1.LongTap(&hCoord, &vCoord)
    composite
        SavePoint(&hCoord, &vCoord)
    endcomposite
EndEvent

Restrictions

In Android, the zoom feature only works on devices with Android version 2.2 and later.

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