Thanks for the pointers and help:
Here is my finished code and it works. You place the mouse anywhere on the canvas hold mouse down and drag to create the rectangle. It could use some more improvement to drag and create the rectangle in any direction.
XAML:
<Canvas Name="ImageCanvas"
MouseMove="ImageCanvas_MouseMove"
MouseDown="ImageCanvas_MouseDown"
Height="240" Width="320"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Margin="87,514,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" MouseLeftButtonUp="ImageCanvas_MouseLeftButtonUp">
<Canvas.Background>
<ImageBrush x:Name="Image" Stretch="Uniform" ImageSource="C:\image.bmp">
</ImageBrush>
</Canvas.Background>
<Rectangle x:Name="ROI" Stroke="#FFF1133E" Width="20" Height="20" Canvas.Left="155" Canvas.Top="115" />
</Canvas>
Code:
double topLeftX = 0;
double topLeftY = 0;
double bottomRightX = 0;
double bottomrigthY = 0;
bool setRect = false;
private void ImageCanvas_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
topLeftY = topLeftX = bottomrigthY = bottomRightX = 0;
setRect = true;
System.Windows.Point pt = e.MouseDevice.GetPosition(sender as Canvas);
topLeftX = pt.X; topLeftY = pt.Y;
}
private void ImageCanvas_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseEventArgs e)
{
if (setRect == true)
{
System.Windows.Point pt = e.MouseDevice.GetPosition(sender as Canvas);
Canvas.SetLeft(ROI, topLeftX);
Canvas.SetTop(ROI, topLeftY);
ROI.Width = System.Math.Abs((int)(pt.X - topLeftX));
ROI.Height = System.Math.Abs((int)(pt.Y - topLeftY));
commandReturnTB.Text = (Convert.ToString(pt.X) + "," + Convert.ToString(pt.Y))+"\n";
}
}
private void ImageCanvas_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
System.Windows.Point pt = e.MouseDevice.GetPosition(sender as Canvas);
bottomRightX = pt.X;
bottomrigthY = pt.Y;
ROI.Width = System.Math.Abs((int)(bottomRightX - topLeftX));
ROI.Height = System.Math.Abs((int)(bottomrigthY - topLeftY));
Canvas.SetLeft(ROI, topLeftX);
Canvas.SetTop(ROI, topLeftY);
setRect = false;
commandReturnTB.Text = topLeftX + "," + topLeftY + "--" + bottomRightX + "," + bottomrigthY;
}