Get the coordinates of a click/touch event

[Olivier]

Hi,

How can I get the location of a click/touch event?  I would like to know where the user clicks on an image from a coordinate standpoint (x, y), not via a hot spot that could be handled by having a control on the hot spots.

Is there a way to get to the mouse-click/press/selcted coordinates?

Thank you,

Olivier

[GregLi · Accepted solution]

This is still not supported.  If an image map is the effect you are looking for, it can be somewhat simulated with a 2D grid built out of galleries and overlaying an image.  

Please vote for this idea at: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/A-Control-element-that-returns-X-and-Y-coordina...

[prudhvimunagala]

I had voted and do post us once, if this feature is released.

[PN-95]

I created a gallery with buttons in the layout template, and only managed to get up to 32x32. Spent hours trying to find a way to undo the automatic template offset which affects positioning... all just to find out that galleries have a limit of displaying only up to about ~1000 items, so yeah, if that is enough precision - go for it - but in my case that's not precise enough... I really could use that "Get-MousePosition" function...

[LozzieD]

@PN-95 I'm working on PCF components at the moment, but only on the model-driven side. Bit of a newbie to the JSX, TypeScript, React, Fluent UI "stack" that encompasses it, but ploughing through it. I'm wondering if a PCF component in a canvas app might somehow be able to stretch across the whole screen, be invisible, pass a click through to the underlying control on the page, and return the x, y co-ordinates of the click?

I might give it a try when I get a moment.

[Pzork]

I found a work around for capturing a click event in the Map input. Using the Map tool I overlay a map at 100% transparency over the power apps screen. using clicked location relative to the bounds of the map I can turn the GPS location into a screen X and Y ratio. I set an Icon at the XRatio x Screen Width and YRatio x Screen Height.

X Ratio (LABEL_X_RATIO)

(Map1_1.ClickedLocation.Longitude - Map1_1.Bounds.West)/(Map1_1.Bounds.East - Map1_1.Bounds.West)

X Value

LABEL_X_RATIO*Map1_1.Width 

Y Ratio (LABEL_Y_RATIO)

(Map1_1.ClickedLocation.Latitude - Map1_1.Bounds.South)/(Map1_1.Bounds.North - Map1_1.Bounds.South)

Y Value

Map1_1.Height - LABEL_Y_RATIO*Map1_1.Height

[LozzieD]

What an ingenious idea! Nice one!

[Nebugadnezzar]

Hi @Pzork !

One flaw I did find with this solution is that actually you can "move" the map with the mouse, thus all the coordinates will change.

But it was a good workaround!