I am drawing rectangles on a canvas using mouse. However, I want to activate the mouse action to draw the rectangles only when key d is pressed on the key board.
If I use
if (event.ctrlKey) {
//draw rectangles
}
I am able to draw by holding the ctrlKey on the keyboard. However, if I use
if (e.which == 88) {
//draw rectangles
}
it doesn't work. I am not able to bind the keyboard keypress events to mouse events on a canvas. I understand canvas element does not have onKeyPress event and as suggested in some of the blogs, I tried the following code, which doesn't work. Can someone help to get me started?
I have many events for which I have to bind the keyboard press event on the canvas.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>parallelogram</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas" width="800" height="600" style="border:solid 1px;margin:0;padding:0;;z-index:1"></canvas>
</body>
</html>
<script type="text/javascript">
var canvas, context;
var dragging = false;
var startLocation;
var dragStartLocation;
var dragStopLocation;
var dragThirdLocation;
var snapshot;
var coords = [];
var pointsNum = 0;
var d = {
x: 0,
y: 0
};
//Get mouse click coordinates
function getCanvasCoordinates(event)
{
var x = event.clientX - canvas.getBoundingClientRect().left;
var y = event.clientY - canvas.getBoundingClientRect().top;
return {
x: x,
y: y
};
}
//save the canvas original state
function takeSnapShot()
{
snapshot = context.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
}
//restore the canvas original state
function restoreSnapShot()
{
context.putImageData(snapshot, 0, 0);
}
//draw a point on mouse click
function drawPoint(position)
{
context.beginPath();
context.arc(position.x, position.y, 5.5, 0, Math.PI * 2, false);
context.stroke();
}
//draw a line on mouse move
function drawLine(start, end)
{
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(start.x, start.y);
context.lineTo(end.x, end.y);
context.stroke();
}
//start the event with first mouse click
function dragStart(event)
{
dragging = true;
dragStartLocation = getCanvasCoordinates(event);
coords['imageClicked'] = localStorage.getItem('clickedImage');
console.log(coords);
var brandNode = localStorage.getItem('brandNode');
var locationNode = localStorage.getItem('locationNode');
drawPoint(dragStartLocation);
pointsNum++;
takeSnapShot();
if (pointsNum == 1) startLocation = dragStartLocation;
}
//draw a line along with the mouse move from the first click
function drag(event)
{
var position;
if (snapshot && pointsNum && pointsNum < 3)
{
restoreSnapShot();
position = getCanvasCoordinates(event);
drawLine(dragStartLocation, position);
drawPoint(position);
if (pointsNum == 2) drawFourthCoord(position)
}
}
//stop the mouse movement and drawing line.
function dragStop(event)
{
dragging = false;
restoreSnapShot();
var position = getCanvasCoordinates(event);
dragStopLocation = position;
drawPoint(dragStopLocation);
pointsNum++;
drawLine(dragStartLocation, dragStopLocation);
takeSnapShot();
d = {
x: dragStartLocation.x - dragStopLocation.x,
y: dragStartLocation.y - dragStopLocation.y
};
dragStartLocation = position;
console.log(dragStartLocation);
if (pointsNum > 3) pointsNum = 0;
}
//draw the fourth coordinate
function drawFourthCoord(position)
{
var p = {
x: position.x + d.x,
y: position.y + d.y
};
drawLine(position, p);
drawPoint(p);
drawLine(startLocation, p);
}
/*
This code works...but does not have binding to keyCode x
function init() {
canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.lineCap = "round";
context.lineWidth = 3;
context.strokeStyle = '#f4d03f';
canvas.addEventListener('mousedown', dragStart, false);
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', drag, false);
canvas.addEventListener('mouseup', dragStop, false);
}
window.addEventListener('load', init, false);
*/
var canvaskey = document.getElementById('canvas');
canvaskey.addEventListener('keydown', doKeyDown, true);
function doKeyDown(e)
{
if (e.which == 88)
{
canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.lineCap = "round";
context.lineWidth = 3;
context.strokeStyle = '#f4d03f';
canvas.addEventListener('mousedown', dragStart, false);
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', drag, false);
canvas.addEventListener('mouseup', dragStop, false);
}
}
</script>