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move div towards mouse at same speed per second

I have created the following code to make the player move towards the mouse, JSFiddle
Code
var mouseX = 0, mouseY = 0;
$(document).mousemove(function(event) {
mouseX = event.pageX;
mouseY = event.pageY;
});
$(function(){
var $map = $(".map");
var $player = $('.player');
var centerPlayerX = $player.offset().left + $player.width() / 2;
var centerPlayerY = $player.offset().top + $player.height() / 2;
var movingInterval;
$('.map').on('mousedown', function(event){
movingInterval = setInterval(function(){
var clickedPosX = mouseX,
clickedPosY = mouseY;
var currentMapPositionX = parseFloat($map.css("background-position-x"));
var currentMapPositionY = parseFloat($map.css("background-position-y"));
var moveMapX = currentMapPositionX - clickedPosX/100 + centerPlayerX/100;
var moveMapY = currentMapPositionY - clickedPosY/100 + centerPlayerY/100;
$map.css({ "background-position-x": `${moveMapX}px`, "background-position-y": `${moveMapY}px` });
var angle = getDirection(centerPlayerX, clickedPosY, clickedPosX, centerPlayerY);
$player.find('.ship').css('transform', 'rotate('+angle+'deg)');
}, 10);
}).on('mouseup', function() {
clearInterval(movingInterval);
});;
});
function getDirection(x1, y1, x2, y2){
var dx = x2 - x1;
var dy = y2 - y1;
return Math.atan2(dx, dy) / Math.PI * 180;
}
Problem
var moveMapX = currentMapPositionX - clickedPosX/100 + centerPlayerX/100;
var moveMapY = currentMapPositionY - clickedPosY/100 + centerPlayerY/100;
Problem is that I want to move the player at a set speed (px*ps). Currently the player will increase in speed when the player moves his mouse further away from the image. I currently have no idea on how I would move the player at a set speed. Therefore I would need to remove clickedPosY/X somehow and change it to a static speed but the image should still move towards were the mouse is, which is the problem.

So, let's assume you have a speed constant; what you want to do is to project the speed constant along the movement vector. The easiest way to do that is to scale the components of the offset to the click position by the ratio of the speed to the distance between the click point and the movement base:
var distanceX = clickedPosX - centerPlayerX;
var distanceY = clickedPosY - centerPlayerY;
var magnitude = Math.sqrt(distanceX * distanceX + distanceY * distanceY);
var deltaX = distanceX * speed / magnitude;
var deltaY = distanceY * speed / magnitude;
var moveMapX = currentMapPositionX - deltaX;
var moveMapY = currentMapPositionY - deltaY;
Updated fiddle

Use Canvas as pad for multiple range inputs

I'm trying to build an html canvas pad that will allow a user to drag and drop a dot on the pad, which will then return two values (one for Y axis, and one for Y axis), which I can use to trigger effects using the web audio API.
I've already sorted out the web Audio API portion of the problem.
The User:
Clicks and drags the dot to anywhere on the X/Y grid
On Drop we will have an X & Y value (perhaps in hidden range inputs), that trigger eventListeners.
The X value eventListener affects the wet/dry of the delay effect
The Y value eventListener affects the delay_time of the delay effect
so far I've been able to create and render the canvas and circle, and add event listeners on the svg element and the window. With the idea being that I can detect when an event occurs inside the canvas and when that click event leaves the canvas.
// Draw SVG pad
function drawDelayPad() {
var canvas = document.getElementById('delayPad');
if (canvas.getContext) {
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var rectangle = new Path2D();
rectangle.rect(1, 1, 200, 200);
var circle = new Path2D();
circle.moveTo(150, 150);
circle.arc(100, 35, 10, 0 , 2 * Math.PI);
ctx.stroke(rectangle);
ctx.fill(circle);
}
}
// Listener on canvas
var canvas = document.getElementById('delayPad');
canvas.addEventListener("mousedown", function(){
console.log("click inside our canvas")
})
// Listener on document to check if we're outside the canvas
window.addEventListener("mouseup", function(){
console.log("outside our canvas")
});
So I think what I need to determine now is that when a click event does occur inside of the canvas, how far it is from the cirle, and if it does fall within the bounds of the circle, I should redraw it as long as the mousedown event is active.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've found a nice little solution that kind of confirms my suspicions surrounding a hit counter! All credit really goes to rectangleWorld since I was for the most part just able to modify the example they had available.
Here's a codepen
// Draw SVG pad
function canvasApp(canvasID) {
var theCanvas = document.getElementById(canvasID);
var context = theCanvas.getContext("2d");
init();
var numShapes;
var shapes;
var dragIndex;
var dragging;
var mouseX;
var mouseY;
var dragHoldX;
var dragHoldY;
function init() {
numShapes = 1;
shapes = [];
makeShapes();
drawScreen();
theCanvas.addEventListener("mousedown", mouseDownListener, false);
}
function makeShapes() {
var i;
var tempX;
var tempY;
var tempRad;
var tempR;
var tempG;
var tempB;
var tempColor;
var tempShape;
for (i = 0; i < numShapes; i++) {
// My canvas element is 240x240
tempRad = 10;
tempX = 0 + tempRad;
tempY = 240 - tempRad;
tempR = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
tempG = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
tempB = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
tempColor = "rgb(" + tempR + "," + tempG + "," + tempB + ")";
tempShape = {
x: tempX,
y: tempY,
rad: tempRad,
color: tempColor
};
shapes.push(tempShape);
}
}
function mouseDownListener(evt) {
var i;
//We are going to pay attention to the layering order of the objects so that if a mouse down occurs over more than object,
//only the topmost one will be dragged.
var highestIndex = -1;
//getting mouse position correctly, being mindful of resizing that may have occured in the browser:
var bRect = theCanvas.getBoundingClientRect();
mouseX = (evt.clientX - bRect.left) * (theCanvas.width / bRect.width);
mouseY = (evt.clientY - bRect.top) * (theCanvas.height / bRect.height);
//find which shape was clicked
for (i = 0; i < numShapes; i++) {
if (hitTest(shapes[i], mouseX, mouseY)) {
dragging = true;
if (i > highestIndex) {
//We will pay attention to the point on the object where the mouse is "holding" the object:
dragHoldX = mouseX - shapes[i].x;
dragHoldY = mouseY - shapes[i].y;
highestIndex = i;
dragIndex = i;
}
}
}
if (dragging) {
window.addEventListener("mousemove", mouseMoveListener, false);
}
theCanvas.removeEventListener("mousedown", mouseDownListener, false);
window.addEventListener("mouseup", mouseUpListener, false);
//code below prevents the mouse down from having an effect on the main browser window:
if (evt.preventDefault) {
evt.preventDefault();
} //standard
else if (evt.returnValue) {
evt.returnValue = false;
} //older IE
return false;
}
function mouseUpListener(evt) {
theCanvas.addEventListener("mousedown", mouseDownListener, false);
window.removeEventListener("mouseup", mouseUpListener, false);
if (dragging) {
dragging = false;
window.removeEventListener("mousemove", mouseMoveListener, false);
}
}
function mouseMoveListener(evt) {
var posX;
var posY;
var shapeRad = shapes[dragIndex].rad;
var minX = shapeRad;
var maxX = theCanvas.width - shapeRad;
var minY = shapeRad;
var maxY = theCanvas.height - shapeRad;
//getting mouse position correctly
var bRect = theCanvas.getBoundingClientRect();
mouseX = (evt.clientX - bRect.left) * (theCanvas.width / bRect.width);
mouseY = (evt.clientY - bRect.top) * (theCanvas.height / bRect.height);
// Divide by width of canvas and multiply to get percentage out of 100
var DelayTime = ((mouseX / 240) * 100);
// Invert returned value to get percentage out of 100
var DelayFeedback = (100 - (mouseY / 240) * 100);
// Set delay time as a portion of 2seconds
delayEffect.delayTime.value = DelayTime / 100 * 2.0;
// set delay feedback gain as value of random number
delayFeedback.gain.value = (DelayFeedback / 100 * 1.0);
//clamp x and y positions to prevent object from dragging outside of canvas
posX = mouseX - dragHoldX;
posX = (posX < minX) ? minX : ((posX > maxX) ? maxX : posX);
posY = mouseY - dragHoldY;
posY = (posY < minY) ? minY : ((posY > maxY) ? maxY : posY);
shapes[dragIndex].x = posX;
shapes[dragIndex].y = posY;
drawScreen();
}
function hitTest(shape, mx, my) {
var dx;
var dy;
dx = mx - shape.x;
dy = my - shape.y;
//a "hit" will be registered if the distance away from the center is less than the radius of the circular object
return (dx * dx + dy * dy < shape.rad * shape.rad);
}
function drawShapes() {
var i;
for (i = 0; i < numShapes; i++) {
context.fillStyle = shapes[i].color;
context.beginPath();
context.arc(shapes[i].x, shapes[i].y, shapes[i].rad, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
context.closePath();
context.fill();
}
}
function drawScreen() {
context.fillStyle = "#000000";
context.fillRect(0, 0, theCanvas.width, theCanvas.height);
drawShapes();
}
}
window.addEventListener("load", windowLoadHandler, false);
function windowLoadHandler() {
canvasApp('delayPad');
}
There are still a few shortcomings, for instance the mouseMoveListener, although constricting the movement of the circle, will continue to increase your x & y values. Meaning you'll either have to use your existing listeners to check when the drag event has exited the circle, or much more simply, you could set an upper limit to your X and Y values.

You'll have to create an object which will store your x and y values.
In below example I called it pad.
This object will serve both your canvas visualization, and your audio processing.
These are both outputs (respectively visual and audio), while the input will be user gesture (e.g mousemove).
The inputs update the pad object, while outputs read it.
[Note]: This example will only work in newest Chrome and Firefox since it uses MediaElement.captureStream() which is not yet widely implemented.
const viz_out = canvas.getContext('2d');
let aud_out, mainVolume;
// our pad object holding the coordinates
const pad = {
x: 0,
y: 0,
down: false,
rad: 10
};
let canvRect = canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
function mousemove(event) {
if (!aud_out || !pad.down) {
return;
}
pad.x = event.clientX - canvRect.left;
pad.y = canvRect.height - (event.clientY - canvRect.top); // inverts y axis
// all actions are splitted
updateViz();
updateAud();
updateLog();
}
viz_out.setTransform(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 300) // invert y axis on the canvas too
// simply draws a circle where at our pad's coords
function updateViz() {
viz_out.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
viz_out.beginPath();
viz_out.arc(pad.x, pad.y, pad.rad, 0, Math.PI * 2);
viz_out.fill();
}
// You'll do it as you wish, here it just modifies a biquadFilter
function updateAud() {
const default_freq = 350;
const max_freq = 6000;
const y_ratio = pad.y / 300;
aud_out.frequency.value = (default_freq + (max_freq * y_ratio)) - default_freq;
aud_out.Q.value = (pad.x / 300) * 10;
mainVolume.value = 1 + ((pad.y + pad.x) / 75);
}
function updateLog() {
log.textContent = `x:${~~pad.x} y:${~~pad.y}`;
}
canvas.addEventListener('mousedown', e => pad.down = true);
canvas.addEventListener('mouseup', e => pad.down = false);
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', mousemove);
btn.onclick = e => {
btn.textContent = 'stop';
startLoadingAudio();
btn.onclick = e => {
mainVolume.value = 0;
}
}
window.onscroll = window.onresize = e => canvRect = canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
function startLoadingAudio() {
const audio = new Audio();
audio.loop = true;
audio.muted = true;
audio.onloadedmetadata = e => {
audio.play();
const stream = audio.captureStream ? audio.captureStream() : audio.mozCaptureStream();
initAudioProcessor(stream);
updateLog();
window.onscroll();
updateViz();
}
// FF will "taint" the stream, even if the media is served with correct CORS...
fetch("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8c9m92u1euqnkaz/GershwinWhiteman-RhapsodyInBluePart1.mp3").then(resp => resp.blob()).then(b => audio.src = URL.createObjectURL(b));
function initAudioProcessor(stream) {
var a_ctx = new AudioContext();
var gainNode = a_ctx.createGain();
var biquadFilter = a_ctx.createBiquadFilter();
var source = a_ctx.createMediaStreamSource(stream);
source.connect(biquadFilter);
biquadFilter.connect(gainNode);
gainNode.connect(a_ctx.destination);
aud_out = biquadFilter;
mainVolume = gainNode.gain;
biquadFilter.type = "bandpass";
}
}
canvas {
border: 1px solid;
}
<button id="btn">
start
</button>
<pre id="log"></pre>
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="300"></canvas>

Get cursor location of a rectangle inside a canvas

i have a canvas, inside of which i have a board/grid. When a user highlights their mouse over an intersection of the grid, i want it to show where their game peice will go. This worked perfectly fine when the board was the exact size of the canvas. I made it abit smaller by x all the way round.
So as you can see in the picture below, the green shows the canvas and the grid is the board. I put my cursor at the very bottom right corner of the green to show when it triggers. The only one that works fine is the middle one because regardless how big i make the board, the middle will always be the middle.
Any easy fix would just be to make the area with the mouseover event, the dimensions of the board instead of the canvas but the event listener is on the canvas. My code is below the image
Variables:
var canvas = document.getElementById("game-canvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
var boardSize = 13;
var border = canvas.width / 20;
var boardWidth = canvas.width - (border * 2);
var boardHeight = canvas.height - (border * 2);
var cellWidth = boardWidth / (boardSize - 1);
var cellHeight = boardHeight / (boardSize - 1);
var lastX;
var lastY;
Mouse over event:
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', function(evt)
{
var position = getGridPoint(evt);
if ((position.x != lastX) || (position.y != lastY))
{
placeStone((position.x * cellWidth) + border, (position.y * cellWidth) + border, 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)');
}
lastX = position.x;
lastY = position.y;
});
Gets the point on the grid and converts that into a number 0 - 13 (in this case)
function getGridPoint(evt)
{
var rect = canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
var x = Math.round((evt.clientX-rect.left)/(rect.right-rect.left)*boardWidth);
var y = Math.round((evt.clientY-rect.top)/(rect.bottom-rect.top)*boardHeight);
var roundX = Math.round(x / cellWidth);
var roundY = Math.round(y / cellHeight);
return {
x: roundX,
y: roundY
};
}
And finally draws the piece on the board:
function placeStone(x, y, color)
{
var radius = cellWidth / 2;
context.beginPath();
context.arc(x, y, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
context.fillStyle = color;
context.fill();
context.lineWidth = 5;
}
I left a couple bits out like how the grid refreshs so its not a string of circles following your mouse and stuff, to keep it as short as i can, im hoping its just a simple asnwer and nobody needs to recreate it but if you do i can include the function that refreshes the grid and draws everything. Thankyou for any advice

To get the position relative to a box
// just as an example w,h are width and height
const box = { x : 10, y : 10, w : 100, h : 100 };
// mouse is the mouse coords and relative to the topleft of canvas (0,0);
var mouse.box = {}
mouse.box.x = mouse.x - box.x;
mouse.box.y = mouse.y - box.y;
Negative values for mouse.box x,y and values greater than box width and height have mouse outside.
For more convenience you can get the mouse normalize pos in the box
mouse.box.nx = mouse.box.x / box.w;
mouse.box.ny = mouse.box.y / box.h;
The coords for nx,ny are in the range 0-1 when inside or on the edge of the box;
If you want to have grid positions then define the grid
box.gridW = 10; // grid divisions width
box.gridH = 10; // grid divisions height
Then getting the grid pos of mouse
mouse.box.gx = Math.floor(mouse.box.nx * box.gridW);
mouse.box.gy = Math.floor(mouse.box.ny * box.gridH);
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const box = { x : 50,y : 10, w : 200, h : 200, gridW : 10, gridH : 10}
function drawGrid(){
var sx = box.w / box.gridW;
var sy = box.h / box.gridH;
var bx = box.x;
var by = box.y;
for(var y = 0; y < box.gridH; y ++){
for(var x = 0; x < box.gridW; x ++){
ctx.strokeRect(x * sx + bx, y * sx + by,sx,sy);
}
}
if(mouse.box){
if(mouse.box.nx >= 0 && mouse.box.nx <= 1 &&
mouse.box.ny >= 0 && mouse.box.ny <= 1){
ctx.fillRect(mouse.box.gx * sx + bx, mouse.box.gy * sx + by,sx,sy);
}
}
}
const mouse = {};
canvas.addEventListener("mousemove",(e)=>{
mouse.x = e.pageX;
mouse.y = e.pageY;
});
function updateMouse(){
if(!mouse.box){
mouse.box = {};
}
mouse.box.x = mouse.x - box.x;
mouse.box.y = mouse.y - box.y;
mouse.box.nx = mouse.box.x / box.w;
mouse.box.ny = mouse.box.y / box.h;
mouse.box.gx = Math.floor(mouse.box.nx * box.gridW);
mouse.box.gy = Math.floor(mouse.box.ny * box.gridH);
var p = 20;
ctx.fillText("x : " + mouse.x,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("y : " + mouse.y,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 20;
ctx.fillText("Box relative",box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("x : " + mouse.box.x,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("y : " + mouse.box.y,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("nx : " + mouse.box.nx,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("ny : " + mouse.box.ny,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("gx : " + mouse.box.gx,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
ctx.fillText("gy : " + mouse.box.gy,box.x+box.w+10,p); p+= 14;
}
function mainLoop(time){
if(canvas.width !== innerWidth || canvas.height !== innerHeight){ // resize canvas if window size has changed
canvas.width = innerWidth;
canvas.height = innerHeight;
}
ctx.setTransform(1,0,0,1,0,0); // set default transform
ctx.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height); // clear the canvas
updateMouse();
drawGrid();
requestAnimationFrame(mainLoop);
}
requestAnimationFrame(mainLoop);
canvas {
position : absolute;
top : 0px;
left : 0px;
}
<canvas id=canvas><canvas>

Capture event.clientX original value

var startT = Date.now();
var startX = event.clientX;
var startY = event.clientY;
var endT = startT;
console.log(startX+","+endX);
while (endT < startT + 100) {
endT = Date.now();
}
var endX = event.clientX;
var endY = event.clientY;
var distance = Math.sqrt(Math.pow((endX - startX), 2) + Math.pow((endY - startY), 2));
var velocity = distance/100;
console.log(endT - startT);
console.log(startX+","+endX);
from event listener
<script>window.onmousemove = showPara;</script>
I was trying to calculate the distance and velocity that mouse moved over a time interval, but the event.clintX or Y will keep changing while the event happens, so do startX and startY. So the distance and the velocity are both 0.
Is there any method that can capture the start coordinate at a constant value?

You can store initial values on the mousedown event. And then compare them on moousemove and on mouseup.

How can canvas coordinates be converted into tile coordinates?

So I have a canvas with an isometric tile map drawn on it, which looks perfect.
In the event listener at the bottom of the script, I grab the cursor's coordinates inside the canvas. How could I find out which tile the cursor is hovering over?
var cs = document.getElementById('board');
var c = cs.getContext("2d")
var gridWidth=100
var gridHeight=50
var tilesX = 12, tilesY = 12;
var spriteWidth=gridWidth
var spriteHeight=img.height/img.width*gridWidth
cs.width = window.innerWidth //spriteWidth*10
cs.height = window.innerHeight //spriteHeight*10
var ox = cs.width/2-spriteWidth/2
var oy = (tilesY * gridHeight) / 2
window.onresize=function(){
cs.width = window.innerWidth //spriteWidth*10
cs.height = window.innerHeight //spriteHeight*10
ox = cs.width/2-spriteWidth/2
oy = (tilesY * gridHeight) / 2
draw()
}
draw();
function renderImage(x, y) {
c.drawImage(img, ox + (x - y) * spriteWidth/2, oy + (y + x) * gridHeight/2-(spriteHeight-gridHeight),spriteWidth,spriteHeight)
}
function draw(){
for(var x = 0; x < tilesX; x++) {
for(var y = 0; y < tilesY; y++) {
renderImage(x,y)
}
}
}
cs.addEventListener('mousemove', function(evt) {
var x = evt.clientX,
y = evt.clientY;
console.log('Mouse position: ' + x + ',' + y);
}, false);
Sorry for pasting such lengthy code, but all of it is there just to lay the isometric grid.
EDIT: Also, how could I get the top left coordinates of the tile image to relay it?

Assuming you've arranged your tiles where the leftmost column and topmost row are zero:
var column = parseInt(mouseX / tileWidth);
var row = parseInt(mouseY / tileHeight);
BTW, if you eventually move your canvas off the top-left of the page then you must adjust your mouse coordinates by the canvas offset.
Here's an example of how to calculate mouse position:
// references to the canvas element and its context
var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");
// get the offset position of the canvas on the web page
var BB=canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
var offsetX=BB.left;
var offsetY=BB.top;
// listen for mousedown events
canvas.onmousedown=handleMousedown;
function handleMousedown(e){
// tell the browser we will handle this event
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
// calculate the mouse position
var mouseX=e.clientX-offsetX;
var mouseY=e.clientY-offsetY;
}