# The best approach to interact with images by clicking on them and retreiving position of the pixel I clicked on
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** images
**Created:** [April 6, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078 "2022-04-06T01:53:26Z")
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### Author:  [@MK-1138](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MK-1138)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078/1 "2022-04-06T01:53:26Z")
I’m loading an image via imshow() which allows me to track coordinates of the mouse as I hover it over the image. I’m using the coordinates as inputs for some other stuff.
I wonder if it’s possible instead to display an image, click somewhere on it, and have some code pick up and store the coordinates of the pixel I clicked on.
Some similar questions I found here mention use of Gtk but I’m wondering if there is a more “natural” way to accomplish this.
I’m only asking pointers and references for what’s suitable for this purpose, not for anyone to do this for me. Thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@Ashwani\_Rathee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ashwani_Rathee)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078/2 "2022-04-06T04:03:13Z")
I think GtkReactive is what you might be looking for:
[https://juliagizmos.github.io/GtkReactive.jl/stable/index.html](https://juliagizmos.github.io/GtkReactive.jl/stable/index.html)
Issue similiar to your problem mentioned here:
[https://github.com/JuliaImages/ImageView.jl/issues/240](https://github.com/JuliaImages/ImageView.jl/issues/240)
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### Author:  [@MK-1138](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MK-1138)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078/3 "2022-04-06T12:42:20Z")
Thank you @Ashwani_Rathee. I searched here but not at GitHub.
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### Author:  [@MLackner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MLackner)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078/4 "2022-04-06T14:37:51Z")
`GLMakie` can also do this.
This piece of code plots a red cross on the position you click in the image:
```julia
using GLMakie
img = rand(50,50)
fig, ax = image(img)
display(fig)
on(events(fig).mousebutton, priority=0) do event
if event.button == Mouse.left
x, y = mouseposition(ax.scene)
scatter!(ax, [x], [y], marker='+', color=:red, markersize=30)
end
end
```
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### Author:  [@MK-1138](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MK-1138)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-best-approach-to-interact-with-images-by-clicking-on-them-and-retreiving-position-of-the-pixel-i-clicked-on/79078/5 "2022-04-06T16:00:29Z")
Many thanks @MLackner, I’m more comfortable working with GLMakie than Gtk. I appreciate it.