draggable How to limit Draggable to a path

[Deepak Oberoi]

I want to limit a Draggable within a Path given for an AVG Layer. if that's possible?

 

I read about bounds but it says container or XY cordinates can be passed in bounds if we can pass an SVG path to bounds? something like http://jsfiddle.net/JwkYm/8/

[OSUblake]

Hi @Deepak Oberoi

 

Draggable uses simple axis-aligned bounding box (AABB) collision detection. It can only detect overlap between 2 boxes, like what is returned by Element.getBoundingClientRect().

 

For other shapes, you will need to handle the collision detection yourself, like inside a liveSnap points function.

https://greensock.com/docs/Utilities/Draggable#snapping

 

For collision detection between circles, lines, and convex polygons, you can use the Separating Axis Theorem (SAT). For concave polygons, you will have to split them up into smaller, convex shapes.

 

Here are 2 libraries that can help with that.

https://github.com/Sinova/Collisions

https://github.com/jriecken/sat-js

 

And here's a thread about using SAT with Draggable. I know that my demo doesn't work as intended in that thread, but I mentioned beforehand that it probably won't because you need to do collision detection while you're dragging.