opencvdragrect

To drag a rectangle on an image window. Select the entire rectangle and move it around. Hold on to corner or a side and resize the rectangle.

Usage

Import script and Initialize the drag object

import selectinwindow
windowName = 'named window'
rectI = selectinwindow.DragRectangle(image, windowName, imageWidth, imageHeight))

Set mouse click callback function

cv2.setMouseCallback(windowName, selectinwindow.dragrect, rectI)

Double click inside the dragged rectangle to finalize the location of the rect The rectangle location can be accessed anytime through outRect

rectI.outRect

Example of the usage can be found in script.py

Update - Jan 2021

• Modified code for Python 3.8.3 and OpenCV 4.5.1
• Renamed dragRect class to DragRectangle
• Moved init function into the DragRectangle class
• New preview gif
• Resolved a bug with the cv2.rectangle function call.
  The function only takes whole numbers and not decimal numbers. Decimal numbers produce a error “Function takes 4 arguments, only 2 given”

Note

You might get the following error

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

To avoid this error, you can add the following code.

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(10 ** 9)

It would help, while holding the rectangle corner or edge for resizing the rectangle the dragging is done in increments by releasing the held corner or sides intermittently.

References

1. Implementation on how to set callbacks and the infinite loop.

   Capturing mouse click events with Python and OpenCV

2. Mouse callback events documentation

   OpenCV 4.5.0 High-level GUI