I am able to get the intersects from my click event when I use the window object to acquire height and width, but getting the intersects position on a canvas that's dynamically sized is proving much harder. I'm not certain of the formula I would need to use to calculate the vector.x and vector.y values with a div that isn't always the same size.
The canvas is the size of a div that always has a width: height ratio of 4:3 and resizes to fit in the window and is always positioned in the center of the window.
If I resize the window to be 4:3 then the following code works perfectly:
mouse.x = (ecx/div_width) *2 -1;
mouse.y= -(ecy/div_height) *2 + 1;
when I resize the window, whichever dimension is larger than the size of the canvas has the incorrect value. I've linked an image to roughly describe how the problem presents itself
Image of horizontal dimension issue
I initially thought that the matches would be as simple as dividing the difference between the the sizes of the window and the canvas by
My question is, how would I acquire the correct values to pass to the vector object for it's x and y attributes? (using Vector3 and Raycaster)
here is the function I'm using to try and get the object(s) being clicked:
function getClicked(event){
event.preventDefault();
var ecx = event.clientX;
var ecy = event.clientY;
//elem is the div containing the canvas
//the canvas is not the same size as the window
var elem_w = elem.innerWidth();
var elem_h = elem.innerHeight();
//most examples suggest using the window height and width
//to get the position of the mouse in the scene.
//since the scene isn't the same size as the window, that doesn't work
var ww = window.innerWidth;
var wh = window.innerHeight;
mouse.x = (ecx/ww) *2 -1;
mouse.y= -(ecy/wh) *2 + 1;
var objlist = []
rc.setFromCamera(mouse, camera);
var intersects = rc.intersectObjects(scene.children, true);
for (var i=0;i<names_to_spin.length;i++){
var obj = intersects[i];
objlist.push(obj);
}
//ideally, this should return a list of the objects under the cursor
return objlist;
}
I have an array of canvas objects that draw correctly. i have three problems:
Offset. I have tested the code below in JS fiddle and it works, but when i export it my web page, the variables get skewed. The detection happens, but not in the right place. the page width is set in CSS, and the actual canvas area is centered using a margin:0 auto call, however it is smaller than the page width.
<canvas id="canvas" width="780" height="690" style="position:absolute;"></canvas>
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var $canvas = $("#canvas");
var canvasOffset = $canvas.offset();
var offsetX = canvasOffset.left;
var offsetY = canvasOffset.top;
var scrollX = $canvas.scrollLeft();
var scrollY = $canvas.scrollTop();
var $results = $("#results");
// define the polygon items
var polyArray = new Array (6);
polyArray [0] =[{x:50,y:236}, {x:200,y:115}, {x:350,y:50}, {x:350,y:300}, {x:232,y:325}, {x:75,y:300}];
polyArray [1] =[{x:350,y:55}, {x:350,y:300}, {x:510,y:300}, {x:510,y:205}, {x:578,y:172}, {x:690,y:96}, {x:650,y:17}];
polyArray [2] =[{x:510,y:300}, {x:510,y:200}, {x:715,y:113}, {x:780,y:200}, {x:780,y:485}, {x:625,y:468}, {x:605,y:456}, {x:605,y:428}];
polyArray [3] =[{x:0,y:446}, {x:284,y:320}, {x:255,y:540}, {x:240,y:566}, {x:73,y:600}, {x:0,y:565}];
polyArray [4] =[{x:355,y:305}, {x:510,y:305}, {x:604,y:423}, {x:604,y:460}, {x:628,y:484}, {x:610,y:513}, {x:587,y:468}, {x:537,y:426}, {x:500,y:400}, {x:447,y:424}, {x:312,y:365}, {x:307,y:314 }];
polyArray [5] =[{x:350,y:425}, {x:415,y:421}, {x:455,y:434}, {x:495,y:411}, {x:550,y:444}, {x:618,y:590}, {x:570,y:616}, {x:359,y:597}, {x:333,y:522}];
// call the function to draw all the objects in the array
define(polyArray);
// call through the array to draw the objects
function define(polygon) {
ctx.beginPath();
for (var i = 0; i < polygon.length; i++) {
ctx.moveTo(polygon[i][0].x, polygon[i][0].y);
for (var j = 1; j < polygon[i].length; j++) {
ctx.lineTo(polygon[i][j].x, polygon[i][j].y);
}
ctx.fill();
}
ctx.closePath();
}
function hitTest(polygon) {
// redefine the polygon
define(polygon);
// ask isPointInPath to hit test the mouse position
// against the current path
return (ctx.isPointInPath(mouseX, mouseY));
}
function handleMouseMove(e) {
e.preventDefault();
mouseX = parseInt(e.clientX - offsetX);
mouseY = parseInt(e.clientY - offsetY);
// check if the mouse is inside the polygon
var isInside = hitTest(polyArray);
if (isInside) {
canvas.style.cursor = 'pointer';
$results.text("Mouse is inside the area);
} else {
canvas.style.cursor = 'default';
$results.text("Outside");
}
}
$("#canvas").mousemove(function (e) {
handleMouseMove(e);
});
Detecting which object has been hovered over. What needs to happen is on hover of one the array shapes should effect some CSS/JS. How can i assign an ID variable and detect it?
when i bring responsive design into the equation i'm a bit stuck for how to incorporate this offset and the poly co-ords to scale appropriately.
Any point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Question#1: Getting accurate mouse position after the canvas has moved
Whenever you move your canvas (fex: margin: 0 auto), you must recalculate your offsetX and offsetY values:
If you manually change the canvas element's CSS (fex: canvas.style.margin='50px' inside javascript), then you must also manually call reOffset().
// cache the canvas's offset positions since the
// offset positions are used often
var offsetX,offsetY;
// call this once at the beginning of your app
// and whenever you change the canvas's position on the page
// (eg call when you change margins, scroll, etc)
function reOffset(){
var BB=canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
offsetX=BB.left;
offsetY=BB.top;
}
// have the browser auto-reset offsetX & offsetX when
// the viewport scrolls or resizes
window.onscroll=function(e){ reOffset(); }
window.onresize=function(e){ reOffset(); }
Question#2 Detecting hovers & blurs over your polygons
Your hitTest function will test if the mouse is currently inside a specified polygon. So inside handleMousemove you could call hitText for each of the polygons inside your polyArray.
Keep a flag variable indicating the index# of the last polygon the mouse was inside (or -1 to indicate the mouse was outside all polygons. When your flag variable value changes, you know there has been either a hover-event or a blur-event. Compare the last and current flag variables to determine which polygon is now hovered or blurred.
Question#3 Incorporating a responsive design
Mouse coordinates reported by the browser into e.clientX and e.clientY are always in unscaled values relative to the browser viewport.
So if you:
Click the mouse and use e.clientX/e.clientY to determine the mouse is at [100,100],
Scale your canvas: context.scale(2,2),
And reclick without moving the mouse from its original [100,100] position,
Then:
Using e.clientX/e.clientY to detect the mouse coordinates will still report the position as [100,100] even if the canvas has been scaled and the mouse is at [200,200] relative to the scaled canvas.
The fix:
You must scale the browser's reported mouse position to match the scaling factor of the canvas:
// Determine how much you want to scale the canvas
var scaleFactor=2.00;
// scale the canvas
context.scale(scaleFactor,scaleFactor);
// also scale the mouse position reported by the browser
mouseX=parseInt(e.clientX-offsetX)*scaleFactor;
mouseY=parseInt(e.clientY-offsetY)*scaleFactor;
I have an Image loaded on canvas. I want to find the distance between to points on this image. But because the image can be bit small user can zoom in (scale image) and then click on two points find the distance. To get points clicked on any image is the easy part
myImage.on('mousedown', function(e){
console.log(e.layerX + " "+e.layerY);
}
though I am not quite sure that layerX is the better messurment. What If the user has scaled the image. Won't that mean that the distance will be bigger? So what is the correct way? Is it to scale down the layerX and layerY before calculating the distance?
myImage.on('mousedown', function(e){
var x, y;
x = e.layerX / this.getScaleX();
y = e.layerY / this.getScaleY();
calculateDistance(x, y);
});
Would the above calculate a more accurate distance? At a second level I want to to take this distance and then recalibrate another picture according to the distance I calibrated (doing the opposite thing). use case:
Users wants to take two points but scales the image up. The destination is calculated and the image is scaled down to its original state. User add a new picture on canvas, which shows something that I know its physical width and height. So system re-calculates pixel width and height of the image based on the calibration done before. So correct procedure would be
Take two points (on scaled up image)
Find distance
Divide distance with scale ratio
Use the distance
or
Take two points (on scaled up image)
divide layerX and layerY with scale ratio
calculate distance
Use the distance
Which one is more correct?
I would get the two points and divided by the image ratio.
See JSBin
html
<div id="holder">
<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzq1rfNV7N1qhze6fo1_500.jpg" />
</div>
css
#holder {
width: 100%;
height:auto;
}
#holder img {
width: 100%;
height:auto;
}
JavaScript
var last = {
x:0,
y:0
};
//dim is the original image dimensions
var dim = {
width:500,
height:427
};
var img = $("#holder img");
img.bind('mousedown',checkpoint);
function checkpoint(e){
// ratio is the scaled image width/height
// divided by the original width/height
var ratio = {
x:img.width()/dim.width,
y:img.height()/dim.height
};
point = {
x:e.clientX / ratio.x,
y:e.clientY / ratio.y
};
var dis = distance(last.x,last.y,point.x,point.y);
last=point;
console.log(dis);
}
function distance(x1, y1, x2,y2){
var dx = x2-x1;
var dy = y2-y1;
return Math.sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy);
}
updated per comment
The code below paints correctly but it paints to wrong coordinates. It should paint the place where the mouse is. I was not able to discover my mistake. Thanks.
JSFIDDLE
container.mousedown(function(e) {
var parentOffset = $(this).offset();
var x = e.pageX - parentOffset.left;
var y = e.pageY - parentOffset.top;
context_temp.beginPath();
context_temp.moveTo(x, y);
started = true;
});
container.mousemove(function(e) {
var parentOffset = $(this).offset();
var x = e.pageX - parentOffset.left;
var y = e.pageY - parentOffset.top;
if (started) {
context_temp.lineTo(x, y);
context_temp.stroke();
}
});
container.mouseup(function(e) {
var parentOffset = $(this).offset();
var x = e.pageX - parentOffset.left;
var y = e.pageY - parentOffset.top;
if (started) {
container.mousemove(x, y);
started = false;
update();
}
});
You're setting your canvas width and height in CSS. That just stretches the canvas the same as it would an image.
The effect is drawing in the wrong place.
Instead you need to set your canvas dimensions on the tag itself:
<canvas width="400" height="400"></canvas>
A <canvas> has its own width and height, which not only define its physical size (unless CSS steps in), but also its logical size (the number of rows/columns of pixels on its drawing surface). When CSS changes the size, the canvas stretches to fit, but doesn't change its logical size. Basically, the pixels stretch too, so the logical and physical coordinates no longer match up.
To fix the problem, you could either do the math to match the coordinates back up, or exclusively use the canvases' own width/height to size them, or set the canvases' width and height properties after the fact to match the width and height set by CSS.
Cannot figure this out, how to find the translated position of the background relative to the canvas. I have the characters coordinates, and I have the coordinates from a mouse click within the canvas, but can't figure out how to find the offset.
In the canvas, when I click somewhere, I get an (x,y) value from (0,0) - (650,575), the size of the window, no matter where my character is. If the character is at (2000, 1500) on the canvas, my click/touch input will always send the character up and left towards 0,0 on the background coordinate.
At first I thought I should subtract the player X position from the max width, then add an offset half the width of the screen, and do the same for the Y position, but that didn't work.
Then I tried subtracting half the width/height of the screen from the current player x,y values but that doesn't work.
Anyone point me in the right direction, it seems elementary but I can't figure it out it's been years since math class???? Thanks
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = 650;
canvas.height = 575;
var WIDTH=5000; //level width
var HEIGHT=3750; //level height
ctx.translate(-WIDTH*.5,-HEIGHT*.5); //starts in center of background
Where my player begins on load:
hero.x = WIDTH*.5+325; //offset half canvas width
hero.y = HEIGHT*.5+275; //offset half canvas height
For the Background:
ctx.drawImage(bgImage, BGsrcX , BGsrcY, 1250 , 938 ,-150, -150, BGdestW, BGdestH); `//image is stretched to 5000x3750`
This is the mouse input I'm using
if(navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone)|(iPod)|(iPad)/i)){
document.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {
if(e.touches.length == 1){ // Only deal with one finger
var touch = e.touches[0]; // Get the information for finger #1
var x = touch.pageX - canvas.offsetLeft;
var y = touch.pageY - canvas.offsetTop;
//clickEvent(x,y); //call your function to manage tweets
}
},false);
}
else{
document.addEventListener('mousedown',function(e) {
var x = e.pageX - canvas.offsetLeft;
var y = e.pageY - canvas.offsetTop;
console.log(x+":"+y);
clickEvent(x,y); //call your function to manage tweets
},false);
}
For the keyboard input to actually pan the background:
if(16 in keysDown && 38 in keysDown && hero.y > 200) {ctx.translate(0,12); }
Don't work with half-translated and non-translated coordinates, translate your mouse click coordinates AND your canvas coordinates.
Then you can just use simple subtraction to find the offset, and to find the distance, you you use the distance formula.