Get the fixture that was clicked on - libgdx

There are several physical bodies of different shapes on the screen. I want to click on the screen to get a physical body(if of course the click fell on it). I have no problems with converting the coordinates from the screen to the world and checking whether I hit the round collider(I just go through the list of "circles" and check the distance from the "click" to its center, if it is more than the radius, then skip). But I'm having problems with other shapes. I can't use raycast, as it doesn't detect the fixture inside which its starting point is. It seems to me that I'm missing some built-in solution that I didn't notice in the documentation. Advance thanks

I found an answer. World.QueryAABB
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gizmo based on Three.js is not visible

I created Forge viewer app w/ Transformation Extension based on GitHub sample "forge-extensions", for unknown reason, gizmo is not visible after I click on element, only very small yellow dot after zoom in, I believe it's element center point and gizmo size is too small, so my question is how to control it? in fact, all the coding is copied from that GitHub sample "forge-extensions", I must miss something simple!
Have you tried your code with different types of models, and does it behave the same for all of them? I believe it may have something to do with the scale of the particular model, especially when looking at these lines of code from the viewer extension:
_transformControlTx.setSize(
bbox.getBoundingSphere().radius * 5);
Try and put a breakpoint there, and see what the radius is. Or try adjusting the hard-coded value.

Raycasting on moving objects

I would like to create some mouse interactions on several moving planes and for that, I need to know which planes I'm hovering on. I've implemented the Raycasting method like in your example here but it seems like I'm hovering all my planes in the center of the canvas, just like if the raycasting method wasn't considering my position.set() modifications.
You can see here an example of what I did here, I logged the result of the hits array at the end of the canvasSlider.js file and all planes are logging when hovering in the center.
Is there a way around that? Or I'm I doing something wrong? Thanks a lot.
The main issue is that you are setting the z scale to 0.
plane.scale.set(1, size.height/size.width, 0);
Replace the 0 with a 1 to enable the hit tests to function.
Another issue I noticed was that your mouse values are relative to the screen and not the canvas. As the canvas is on a scrolling page it may not be taking up the full screen at all times.

AS3 - Moving a clip (player) along a path

I'll try to explain my problem in a clear and short way.
I'm writing a grid-game. In this game when the player clicks somewhere, the player moves, along the grid with a path calculated by the computer (because there's obstacles that the player avoid : walls...) to the final point.
It's an isometric grid but it's like it was a basic 2D grid.
So I have my path, which is a Point Array (key points screen coordinates) :
path : [x=10,y=100],[x=40,y=172], .. etc.
To display the movement of the player, I tried to use tweens (TweenLite/TweenMax).
There's no option on TweenLite to wait for a tween to finish before starting the next. In any case the solutions seem complicated (shitty delays/onFinish:function).
The solution I found is acceptable : TweenLite provides a LinePath2D function which works exactly like I wished. The only problem is that it works with only one function (path is the complete array):
var pathanimate:LinePath2D = new LinePath2D(path);
pathanimate.addFollower(Player);
TweenMax.to(pathanimate, 1, { progress:1, ease:Linear.easeNone });
So I can't "touch" anything during the movement. INCLUDING the aspect of the sprite of the player that must changes with the direction during each step of the path (it would be more simple if it LinePath worked with a loop).
I don't know if this is clear (i'm french huh) but I see only but two options :
Keep the LinePath and have, on each frame, some kind of counter/timer that "measures" the direction of the player. Could be heavy in ressources, but keeps the LinePath2D that works very well alone
Find another solution
I'd be glad to hear your ideas and code !
Thanks in advance
Actually I can provide several solutions, but they will include many lines of code. Briefly speaking:
System of waypoints. You have algorithm to set collection of waypoints to your character, and render him (updating from the main gaming loop), and character reaches one waypoint after another by shifting them from the collection.
Working with tweens, append them (so there will be queue).
In both options, you can set new path for the character, all you need is simple logic to approximate current position of the character to the closest grid point, and calculate new path from there, It's very easy with basic grid systems, like:
closestGridCellX = Math.round(this.x / gridCellSize);
closestGridCellY = Math.round(this.y / gridCellSize);

Dygraph: mouse pointer goes out of sync

When I try to rotate the dygraph by 90 degree, the mouse pointer gets out of sync and doesn't follow the highlighted point in the graph. I understand this is because now x - axis becomes vertical and y axis as horizontal but I don't know how to fix this issue. I tried pointing my own logic inside mousemove_ function of dygraph.js but couldn't make it work. Can someone please suggest me the code change I need to make.
Note: My app has both dynamic and static graph, so the mouse pointer should in sync with highlighted point for both static and dynamic graph
This came up in the dygraphs-users mailing list. See this thread: Best way to draw the graph vertically, particularly Ransom Christofferson's message.

ActionScript: fruit ninja swipe

I'm trying to build the fruit ninja type swipe to some of my buttons in Flash CS6 and ActionScript3.
In trying to figure it out this is what I have come up with:
get the coordinates of where the user first put his finger mouse down,
then where we lifted it
see if your button touches any of those coordinates (if yes, execute that button code)
run some kind of animation between the first two coordinates (mouse down, mouse up points)
am I on the right track?
Also, has anyone already done this so that I can look at their code?
Thanks!
Check out this series on the subject by the great Emanuele Feronato, using the physics library Box2d:
Slicing, splitting and cutting objects with box2d
Part 2: Actually split the object
Part 4: Using real graphics
(I couldn't find part 3 but I don't think we're missing anything too important there). Hope this helps!