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by divyanshu013
HTML
<h4>Add text to canvas and drag it</h4>
<input id="theText" type="text">
<button id="submit">Draw text on canvas</button><br>
<canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>
CSS
body {
background-color: ivory;
}
#canvas {
border:1px solid red;
}
#theText {
width:10em;
}
JavaScript
// canvas related variables
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
// variables used to get mouse position on the canvas
var $canvas = $("#canvas");
var canvasOffset = $canvas.offset();
var offsetX = canvasOffset.left;
var offsetY = canvasOffset.top;
var scrollX = $canvas.scrollLeft();
var scrollY = $canvas.scrollTop();
// variables to save last mouse position
// used to see how far the user dragged the mouse
// and then move the text by that distance
var startX;
var startY;
// an array to hold text objects
var texts = [];
// this var will hold the index of the hit-selected text
var selectedText = -1;
// clear the canvas & redraw all texts
function draw() {
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
for (var i = 0; i < texts.length; i++) {
var text = texts[i];
ctx.fillText(text.text, text.x, text.y);
}
}
// test if x,y is inside the bounding box of texts[textIndex]
function textHittest(x, y, textIndex) {
var text = texts[textIndex];
return (x >= text.x && x <= text.x + text.width && y >= text.y - text.height && y <= text.y);
}
// handle mousedown events
// iterate through texts[] and see if the user
// mousedown'ed on one of them
// If yes, set the selectedText to the index of that text
function handleMouseDown(e) {
e.preventDefault();
startX = parseInt(e.clientX - offsetX);
startY = parseInt(e.clientY - offsetY);
// Put your mousedown stuff here
for (var i = 0; i < texts.length; i++) {
if (textHittest(startX, startY, i)) {
selectedText = i;
}
}
}
// done dragging
function handleMouseUp(e) {
e.preventDefault();
selectedText = -1;
}
// also done dragging
function handleMouseOut(e) {
e.preventDefault();
selectedText = -1;
}
// handle mousemove events
// calc how far the mouse has been dragged since
// the last mousemove event and move the selected text
// by that distance
function handleMouseMove(e) {
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