Scroll an image with mouse (Solved)

[JohnLM 14]

I am having trouble figuring this one out. 

 

I have a form with a tscrollbox and an timage.

 

In the image1MouseMove event of the timage I have the following code; 

procedure TForm2.im1MouseMove(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState; X,
  Y: Integer);
begin
  scrollbox1.vertScrollBar.Position := x;
  scrollbox1.horzScrollBar.Position := y;
end;

But it is not what I'd expect. 

 

What I am trying to do: 

 

1. Lets say I have screenshot of my desktop and inserted into the timage.

2. And I resize the app's form smaller

3. Using the mouse, I want to click on the image and drag (or pan) around inside the form's scrollbox area so that I can see other parts of the image.

 

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this?  TIA

 

Edited September 21 by JohnLM

[Lajos Juhász 292]

You would like to move the scrollbar by the ammount the user have move the mouse to do so you will need two variables (private fields) that stores the previous mouse coordinates:

 

procedure TForm1.Image1MouseDown(Sender: TObject; Button: TMouseButton; Shift:
    TShiftState; X, Y: Integer);
begin
  fPRevX:=X;
  fPrevY:=Y;
end;

 

Now when the user moves the mouse while the left button is pressed we can calculate the new position for the scrollbars:

 

procedure TForm1.Image1MouseMove(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState; X, Y:
    Integer);
begin
  if ssLeft in Shift then
  begin
      scrollbox1.vertScrollBar.Position := scrollbox1.vertScrollBar.Position+fPrevY-Y;
      scrollbox1.horzScrollBar.Position := scrollbox1.horzScrollBar.Position+fPRevX-X;

      fPrevX:=X;
      fPrevY:=y;
  end;
end;

 

[Anders Melander 1773]

10 hours ago, Lajos Juhász said:

You would like to move the scrollbar by the ammount the user have move the mouse

No, don't do that; It would accumulate the various errors there is in coordinate system conversion, mouse imprecision, etc. Also, the example just doesn't work.

 

Instead remember the starting mouse position and adjust the scrollbar position with the difference between the starting mouse position and the current position:

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    [...]
  private
    FStartPos: TPoint;
  end;

procedure TForm1.Image1MouseDown(Sender: TObject; Button: TMouseButton; 
  Shift: TShiftState; X, Y: Integer);
begin
  FStartPos.X := X;
  FStartPos.Y := Y;
end;

procedure TForm1.Image1MouseMove(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState;
  X, Y: Integer);
var
  DeltaMouse: TPoint;
begin
  if (ssLeft in Shift) then
  begin
    // How much has the mouse moved since we started the drag?
    DeltaMouse := Point(FStartPos.X - X, FStartPos.Y - Y);

    // Reposition scrollbars (i.e. pan the image)
    ScrollBox1.HorzScrollBar.Position := ScrollBox1.HorzScrollBar.Position + DeltaMouse.X;
    ScrollBox1.VertScrollBar.Position := ScrollBox1.VertScrollBar.Position + DeltaMouse.Y;
  end;
end;

 

[JohnLM 14]

Thank you @Lajos Juhász for your suggestion.  I had tried a few mods late last night but I could not get it to work any better. 

 

And thank you @Anders Melander for your suggestion.  It is working the way I was hoping. 

 

And, I learned a little bit about Delta. 

 

Thank you both for your help, it is appreciated!