[javascript FR] mouse click event

[Mathew]

For a javascript, we can currently get x and y coordinates from doc.mouseX and doc.mouseY. This FR is for a way for javascript to know that the mouse has been pressed (mouseDown/mouseUp). I imagine this could be either as part of doc properties (doc.mouseDown?) or as a property of the event object (event.click?) but there may be a better way (callback function?).

At its most rudimentary, just knowing that the mouse button has been pressed would allow a tool to place markups at a user specified location.

There are a huge number of tools that would benefit from this, including placing custom generated annotations, rotation/scaling/etc of annotations, etc. I've posted some workarounds I came up with (ie drawing placeholder annotations that get replaced), but they are usually very clunky and difficult to control. Knowing both mouseUp and mouseDown would allow a script to know dragging, etc. but just the basic "click" event would open up many opportunities.

This is obliquely related to another (moon shot) FR, but hopefully less expansive, so maybe more possible?

Thank you for your consideration!
Mathew.

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Hello Mathew,

Thank you for sharing your feature request with us.

I have forwarded it to our developers for consideration.

We will keep you posted on any progress regarding this feature.

Regards.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Mathew,

Our devs told me that there are no plans for us to expose mouse click events through JS in the foreseeable future, sorry!

Kind regards,
Stefan

[Mathew]

oh well. Maybe overwhelmed with things to do.

I’ve got some workarounds up my sleeve so we’ll see where they get me. Thank you for considering it

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]