# Geting the image pixel using ImageView
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** images, gtk
**Created:** [August 8, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555 "2020-08-08T08:15:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kobied](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kobied)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555/1 "2020-08-08T08:15:08Z")
Hello,
I need to create a gui which has an image and some controllers.
I’m using Gtk and ImageView, my quastion is, how can i get the image pixle that the mouse courser is clicked on?
Thanks in ahead
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### Author:  [@NightMachinary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NightMachinary)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555/2 "2020-08-08T10:09:55Z")
I don’t know, but I’d look at GtkReactive’s docs.
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### Author:  [@kobied](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kobied)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555/3 "2020-08-08T10:54:14Z")
hi, after some sourcing I found the solution:
```julia
# loading the needed pkg
using ImageView, TestImages
# choosing image to show
img = float.(testimage("lighthouse"))
s = imshow(img)
# this is the main idea, in the s object under the dictionary key "gui" then "canvas" there is a
# mouse Signal object which has several actions, one of them is buttonpress, in this example
# i map the Signal when the mouse button pressed to the println function which print the
# mouse [x,y] position
mouse_pos = map(d->println("x = $(float(d.position.x)), y = $(float(d.position.y))"),s["gui"]["canvas"].mouse.buttonpress)
```
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### Author:  [@NightMachinary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NightMachinary)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555/4 "2020-08-08T18:43:13Z")
I was reading Mackie’s docs, and it also has this feature: [https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/interaction.html#Interaction-using-the-mouse](https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/interaction.html#Interaction-using-the-mouse)
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### Author:  [@kobied](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kobied)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/geting-the-image-pixel-using-imageview/44555/5 "2020-08-08T18:59:50Z")
I’m familiar with the Makie interaction with mouse, but unforchenetly it lackes the other gui features that Gtk has so i can’t use it.
As i note earlier, i’m using Gtk and there for i need to use ImagView with it.