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HTML5 canvas transformations

March 28th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in Canvas, Front-end development

Once the contents of a canvas element have been drawn using the 2d context drawing methods or image loading methods you can start using transformation methods to manipulate the drawing state.

To keep track of drawing states you use the canvas 2d context’s save() and restore() methods.

The save() method pushes a copy of the current drawing state onto the drawing state stack. This stack is simply a storage pile of canvas drawing states that can be returned to by successively calling the restore() method.
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Using images in HTML5 Canvas

March 22nd, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in Canvas, Front-end development

The html5 canvas element 2d context allows you to display and manipulate image files through it’s drawImage method. The drawImage method is overloaded to provide three sets of arguments for dealing with images.
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Canvas drawing methods

February 21st, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in Canvas, Front-end development

What follows is a quick reference of the canvas element’s 2d context drawing methods. For more extensive specifications and discussions of the canvas element visit the WHATWG canvas specifications or the canvas tutorial on Mozilla.org.

To start using the canvas element’s drawing API we first create a reference to a context to draw in inside a DOM-ready listener or window onload event: 

var canvas1 = document.getElementById('canvas1');
if (canvas1.getContext){
  var cntxt = canvas.getContext('2d');
}else{
  //fallback code
}

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The Canvas element

February 17th, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in Canvas, Front-end development

The canvas element is a HTML element that allows you to draw and animate bitmap graphics using a scripting interface. It is nowadays part of the HTML5 specifications as propounded by the W3C and the WHATWG.
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