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by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
A shoot'n'up HTML5 game made with Phaser game framework
by Steve Marsh
A fully customizable 16 segment display using the HTML5 canvas
by Voevudko A. E., Ph.D.
Understanding and using technique of generating and plotting spirals in plain JavaScript. Offering web-pages demonstrating different kind of spirals.
by Gary.Miller.WPF
In this article, I describe how I implemented a 3D subdivision surface modeling application in JavaScript and WebGL.

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JavaScript, HTML based physical computer models on canvas
by Gary.Miller.WPF
In this article, I describe how I implemented a 3D subdivision surface modeling application in JavaScript and WebGL.

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26 Nov 2017 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
A shoot'n'up HTML5 game made with Phaser game framework
4 Apr 2013 by Steve Marsh
A fully customizable 16 segment display using the HTML5 canvas
2 Nov 2017 by Voevudko A. E., Ph.D.
Understanding and using technique of generating and plotting spirals in plain JavaScript. Offering web-pages demonstrating different kind of spirals.
29 Jun 2020 by Gary.Miller.WPF
In this article, I describe how I implemented a 3D subdivision surface modeling application in JavaScript and WebGL.
29 Sep 2020 by practicalDeveloper
JavaScript, HTML based physical computer models on canvas
3 May 2016 by raddevus
Less than 300 lines of JavaScript creates an interesting "Game of Life" example (random moving graphic creatures with lifespans - see animated gif).
20 Mar 2018 by Voevudko A. E., Ph.D.
Continue defining and presenting Gearographic curves from the simplest to the most intriguing. Offering web-pages and R scripts used to illustrate different aspects of it.
27 Apr 2012 by Agon Avdimetaj
the HTML5 Canvas can be used as a background in websites modified as needed to design.
5 Oct 2014 by Grasshopper.iics
The Simplest Graphics and Animation tutorial you ever wanted
14 Jun 2012 by Manas Bhardwaj
From w3schools:The createLinearGradient method creates a gradient object that changes from one color to another. You can specify how and where these changes will take place, using the coordinate parameters. The x0 and y0 parameters represents the start coordinates of the gradient. The...
23 Jun 2015 by Kel_
A game of life "MMO", with a persistent simulation running on the server.
26 Apr 2016 by raddevus
Adding more methods (select points, draw triangles, etc) which allow us to do some specialized drawing on the HTML5 Canvas so we can investigate the Calc Convex Hull algorithm.
13 May 2013 by Walby
Whilst I have never tried to directly host a page in the canvas control, I can confirm that you can host it in a Frame control sitting on the canvas control. Then set the source of the Frame control to show the Page control. Please see below: Source="ChildPageView.xaml" ...
27 Apr 2014 by Dennis E White
Development of a jQuery plugin to be used to create and draw on a canvas element
19 Dec 2015 by Swagat Parida
Steps to create a simple drawing app using HTML5 Canvas
4 Oct 2016 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)
We will discuss a problem that I recently came across while working with images in coding.
14 Feb 2019 by MadMyche
Looks like a good start; finding the deltas for the X & Y coordinates. double dblDistX = Math.Abs(pt1.X - pt2.X); double dblDistY = Math.Abs(pt1.Y - pt2.Y); Now I'm guessing that you want the diagonal distance (Z) between these 2 points. Time to break out the HS Geometry book and look up my...
23 Jul 2015 by Siddharth Chandra
How to use Angular in a Cordova Environment and its impact
12 Mar 2012 by E.F. Nijboer
A html5 canvas is meant for client-side drawing. In your case you want to draw server-side and therefor don't need a html5 canvas. Have a look at the link how to dynamically create server-side images.Create Dynamic Images in ASP.NET[^]Good luck!
20 Sep 2012 by Kenneth Haugland
I got it to work like this:
5 Jun 2013 by morzel
For some type of animations, default coordinate system is inconvenient, fortunately, you can change it using transformation methods...
22 Dec 2016 by Shemeemsha (ഷെമീംഷ)
How to set a site background like this sitewww.hashtagmyass.com[^]
28 Feb 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
As in many other graphics rendering system, your code is the handler of some event invoked when the drawing is required. You hard-coded the bitmap coordinates, so what would you expect. You have to make these coordinate depending on some field(s) of declaring class, say, bitmapX, bitmapY. You...
4 Mar 2015 by Stephen Hewison
There is no way to stop the user from viewing/debugging your JS code.You can obfuscate and minimise your code to make it harder to read but harder is not impossible.The only way to ensure the security of such a game is to make sure all the decisions about awards are done server...
24 May 2017 by raddevus
Use SignalR to create a Slideshow app which asynchronously updates all web clients so they see the same slide you are seeing.
13 Jun 2012 by Tim Corey
Here is a basic article that will help you figure out how to draw these shapes:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747393.aspx[^]To draw them using the mouse, just start the drawing on mouse down at the coordinates of the mouse pointer (set that as one corner of the object being...
26 Sep 2012 by ridoy
http://prajaktagodbole.com/blog/2011/02/analog-clock-using-html5-canvas-and-javascript/[^]
24 Apr 2013 by Kenneth Haugland
There are lots of different ways of doing this, you might try this:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5851168/save-canvas-to-bitmap[^]The easiest solution would ofcourse be to save the imaqge in some vector format, but you would have to build the function by had, or so it...
12 May 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
I'm not sure you can make a page a child of Canvas, but it surely could be another Canvas instance. You can read a Canvas object from the XAML file and insert the result of it.For a sample of appropriate XAML, you can use use open-source Inkscape (wonderful application, a must to have,...
13 May 2013 by Mohammed Hameed
Please clarify whether the Canvas control can hold a Xaml page content (can we load Xaml into Canvas dynamically by reading the Xaml page?) Thanks.
3 Aug 2013 by Shmuel Zang
It seems like it happens because you calculate the random number once and, use the same calculated numbers for the whole of the images. In addition to that, the Math.random function gives a number between 0 to 1. So, in order to get different locations, you can multiply the random results with...
12 Aug 2013 by Maciej Los
Have a look here: The Developer’s Guide to HTML5 Canvas[^].[EDIT]arc method[^]//ctx is a canvas contextctx.beginPath();var x = 50; // The x-coordinate.var y = 50; // The y-coordinate.var radius = 20; // The arc radius; you need to calculate...
14 Oct 2013 by Paulo Augusto Kunzel
After more researching, some comparison indicators were found explaining some of the libraries and both advantages and disadvantages.For those who have the same doubts as I was, here are some links to help you...
5 Feb 2014 by Dexter11
I want something like ellipse option in paint for drawing on my canvas. I have achieved this partially. The problem is i am not able to get radius of circle, currently i have hard coded it to 15. Also i want to draw ellipse(same as paint) not exact circle.This is my code for drawing circle on...
20 Feb 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
This is a really great idea to do something good for children, something which should stimulate creativity, not consumerism like most of the resources!But first, you need to grow up enough to apply some critical thinking and logic :-). HTML5 Canvas is maybe the best opportunity these days,...
8 Apr 2014 by Dexter11
I have a requirement where i have to draw areas on HTML5 canvas, area are drawn using circle,rectangle,polygon tool(This is part of configuration i.e only defining the area's). Later in Dashboard(where the configured area's can be viewed) i want to show small sub area's within the...
25 May 2014 by awaynemd
I have a customInkCanvas which inherits from InkCanvas.I have an image that I wish to place on the InkCanvas.For the normal InkCanvas, this works:Canvas.SetTop(image, y);Canvas.SetLeft(image, x);InkCanvas.Children.Add(image);However, for CustomInkCanvas, the above fails. So...
26 May 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
You don't really need to "capture" the Visual, because System.Windows.Controls.InkCanvas is already System.Windows.Media.Visual:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.inkcanvas.aspx[^] :-).If you need the whole canvas area, it's apparently canvas.ActualWidth and...
26 Jun 2014 by Murali Gowda
WinJS custom control to plot/draw a simple donut like chart
2 Jul 2014 by Sacha Barber
How to store data from an HTML Canvas as a Byte[] and save it in Azure
17 Jul 2014 by Anurag_Kushwaha
Hey check out the below link this might help you out.http://forums.asp.net/t/1764959.aspx?About+Div+Tag+convert+into+image+in+c+[^]
25 Aug 2014 by User 1234567
I need to draw a cross shape in android, i have fixed set of points to draw, Path path = new Path(); path.moveTo(133.133f, 45.7109f); path.lineTo(154.307f, 24.5363f); path.lineTo(175.482f,...
25 Aug 2014 by Fredrik Bornander
Use a scale Transform;Matrix matrix = new Matrix();matrixsetScale(2.0f, 2.0f);// path is your pathpath.transform(matrix); Or, if you want to scale around the center of the path;Matrix matrix = new Matrix();RectF boundingBox = new RectF();path.computeBounds(boundingBox,...
14 Sep 2014 by Prasad Khandekar
Hello Jems,How about this[^] excellent article available on CodeProject. You can also have a look at this open source library[^].Regards,
15 Sep 2014 by Gihan Liyanage
please check this threads http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3800813/video-as-site-background-html-5[^]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3899865/can-you-display-html5-video-as-a-full-screen-background[^]http://pupunzi.open-lab.com/2010/03/22/youtube-movie-as-background/[^]
15 Sep 2014 by Suraj Sahoo | Coding Passion
http://demosthenes.info/blog/7...
20 Nov 2015 by Henrik Jonsson
Check this out on how to manage mouse events and draw lines on the canvas:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2368784/draw-on-html5-canvas-using-a-mouse[^]
11 May 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Put this text in some other free-size HTML element and render it. For accurate result, you should set the style of this element to have zero padding and borders. Then measure the size of this element using these two HTML element's properties offsetHeight and offsetWidth (sic!).For a...
6 Aug 2017 by ryanhaas
I have an android game where the canvas is scaled to look the same on all devices using this code: canvas.scale((float)(getWidth()/(double)WIDTH), (float)(getHeight()/(double)HEIGHT)) where WIDTH and HEIGHT are 1920 and 1080 respectively. My problem is that for all my touch collisions (i.e. a...
30 Jun 2018 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
The target (currentTarget) of the event is the element you are looking for...
23 Jun 2022 by Alaren
Aha, found it, the menu needed to have the postition:relative added to make the z-index work.
17 Nov 2011 by KiranBabu M
Hello, i cant understand why custom canvas is not generating mouse events.i have inherited class from Canvas. and added in XAML . Now iam unable to generate mouse events for the canvas .plz help me how to generate mouse events for canvas now.Xaml Code...
17 Nov 2011 by VallarasuS
In general WPF Handles hit testing with the help of brushes, seems you have a transparent background, I suspect it could be a potential cause, can you check if changing the background helps or not?
23 Nov 2011 by Freeboss
Hi,Let's create a:ObservableCollection BitmapsLists = new ObservableCollection();Then let's fill it with some random Images: foreach (string item in Directory.GetFiles("Some Folder")){ BitmapImage BitImage = new BitmapImage(); ...
25 Nov 2011 by Matias234
In my paint app I am hoping that when I drag my finger across the screen a line will appear following my fingers trail. While, my app achieves some of that the screen of my avd flickers and instead of one continuous line it is a lot of smaller lines making a broken larger one. Here is my...
2 Jan 2012 by Hamed Metalgear
Hey guys, I have a Canvas inside a grid, the Height and Width of the canvas is set to be Auto.In my code behind, I need to draw a shape (i.e. Line, Rectangle) inside this Canvas and set the size of the shape to the size of Canvas (i.e. a Rectangle which has a Height same as the canvas and a...
18 Jan 2012 by ed welch
HTML5 animation using a texture atlas
17 Jan 2012 by Member 8456258
Hello AllI have a canvas that displays images. These images supposed to be updated at run time. Update happens when the image is already display and the next image in the qeue is being displayed. However I am not able to delete nor modify the previously displayed images since I get the "file...
17 Jan 2012 by sirazuddin
hi your application itself holding that file so we need to use filestream etc like below FileInfo fileinfo = new FileInfo(filepath); if (fileinfo.Exists) { using (FileStream fs = System.IO.File.Open(filepath, ...
17 Jan 2012 by SteveAdey
It depends on where you are trying to find out your canvas height.You could override the OnRenderSizeChanged in the containing view. At this point the canvas has been given a size and ActualHeight with then work correctly.
2 Feb 2012 by saravanan6
Hi All, I want to insert my text field on my Canvas...Is this possible?If yes then How do i do that?
25 Feb 2012 by Shahdat Hosain
My final is goal to implement a app like http://www.crystal.ch/abb/power_systems_landscape/[^] using html5.As you see, we may need a large(2000*600) canvas, but im not sure.Can anyone give me idea just for following behavior of above link ?1. Scrolling left-right smoothly using...
26 Feb 2012 by Ed Nutting
Start by looking some HTML5/CSS3 and look at how to use overflow, position, top, left, width and height styles to get the canvas to move show only one portion. Increasing width/height proportionally will get you zoom functionality. Finally, look at jQuery - type it into Google. Learn how to use...
5 Mar 2012 by Clifford Nelson
Once you define a tag, it is defined. InkCanvas is different from a Canvas. The drawings done on an InkCanvas are in Ink Serialized Format (ISF). The way to convert would be to to create a Canvas, transfer properties, then replece the InkCanvas in the VisualTree with this Canvas. More than...
12 Mar 2012 by Jukatzu
Hi Experts,I have this html5 canvas and I wish to access it from the code-behind in order to Draw on it through C# code (because the drawing program is ready made in C#). So practically I just wish to have my program use the html5 canvas instead of its wpf panel to draw onto.I am...
13 Jun 2012 by WajihaAhmed
I have got a canvas, with a layout of a Checkers board. At the position of pieces, I have placed images. The point at which I got stuck is, how to select/highlite a piece's image for a move. I can't figure out the appropriate commandListener and how to handle this keyPressedEvent.Any suggestions?
28 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra
Hi, I am developing a paint like application in metro style with XAML/C# . I want to save whatever content is drawn on canvas as image. I have checked this solutions but it didn't helped me.Save canvas to bitmap[^]WPF/XAML: Saving a Window or Canvas as a PNG Bitmap[^]So how can I...
28 Jun 2012 by Jαved
Hi,You can use the msToBlob property of the canvas:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465734.aspx[^]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465735.aspx[^]Than you can convert that blog to a stream and save it. Link[^]
28 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra
Thanks Jαved, but I want the solution for XAML/C# canvas element not for HTML5/JS canvas.
25 Jul 2012 by twtsa
It's easy to crop,rotate,change colors of images.I want to use some senior image porcessing functions like DCT or FFT on HTML5 canvas? Is there any ready-made libs?...
20 Sep 2012 by footballpardeep
I have two Canvases side by side, like we have doors, i am able to swept the left canvas(door) from center to left, but i am facing problem in sweptting right canvas from center to right.or You can say i want the effect of openning of certains.------------------|canvas1|canvas2...
26 Sep 2012 by Style-7
I want to draw analog clock. So the main canvas will be dial and, hours and minutes arrows, and the second will be seconds arrow (for update every 1 second).HTML JScript canvas = document.getElementById('clock'); ...
21 Oct 2012 by nuclearpeace
using KineticJS libI have little issue here (i obviously miss something). I simplified it from my bigger application: When i click blue rectangle, i add another layer to the stage that includes red rectangle (clickable), when i click this red rectangle, it removes second layer with red...
5 Jan 2013 by RAGUNATH V
string[] ppm1 = Directory.GetFiles(saveloc, "*.png", SearchOption.AllDirectories); ns.NumericComparer ns = new ns.NumericComparer(); Array.Sort(ppm1, ns);In this part of code am storing files location in an array.using break points i've checked that ppm1[]...
17 Jan 2013 by Member 9766058
I have been programming and androgen do appreciate with a surface on which I drew a bitmap which isdraggable. With out a background in can drag the background smoothly but the fact I put a background the dragging becomes laggy and slow. Note : I am programming this app using eclipse with...
12 Nov 2019 by Abed AlSayed
Hello, I'm trying to make a drawing board tha support adding shapes and images. for pencil I use this code and I don't think that there is a way to erase it but just trying: Dim lin As New Line lin.Stroke = New SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(100, 255, 0, 0)) ...
21 Feb 2013 by geethika amu
Hello I have done project in that i can save image like downloading in to div then right click on that it displays save as image,I don't want to do like that. I want download image directly not like the above at the same time i want to save image path in database using SQL server and mvc3 web...
19 Feb 2013 by Arun1_m1
We can store the file path of the image inside a VARCHAR column, but make sure the files are inside the server directory
18 Mar 2013 by Zahra Davar Pour
hihow can i design a web site compatible with all the browsers?thankszara
18 Mar 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
I don't think you can ever take into account all the incompatibility, at least, not these days, when there are two many of them. You can achieve compatibility only to some set of cases, only two certain extent. My idea is: limit your design to those cases. But this is not all.Another...
18 Apr 2013 by garav kumar mishra
IE 8:I am unable to print image from canvas.http://makemydesign.com/demo/createdesign/designow-3.html Click View Image is working in all other browsers but not in IE 8.I have used the code below for it:document.getElementById(' viewImageDownload').onclick = function()...
11 May 2013 by sainisoft
hi All,i m using the slider but their is some mistake in increase the size problem is :- when i increase the size of the text it take the previous value of the size Example:-First write the text any size after that i set the size 10 after that again set the size 20 then it take the size...
6 Jun 2013 by analogx
Ok i have been trying this all morning but to no avail.I am having a slider element whose slide area is about 420px in height.I am having a canvas element whose height is 400px and width is 215 px as below:
25 Jun 2013 by praveena0989@gmail.com
Is there any way to increase the height of image created using HTML5 canvas putImagedata. Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.var...
30 Jul 2013 by Jaydeep Jadav
I am using kinetic-v4.3.0-beta2.jsI want to handle mobile touch event on group for ios & android.I am binding event such as followinggroup.on('touchstart', function (evt) { $('#onpopMenu').popup("open", { x: leftPosition, y: topPosition });});I tried 'touchend',...
3 Aug 2013 by Kieran82
I am trying to display a image multiple times at different locations on a html5 canvas and don't know how to go about doing it. I can draw one image easily but have to find how to do it more than 1 times. Can anyone help me.what am I doing wrong because it only prints one image on the...
12 Aug 2013 by Kieran82
I want to draw a half circle with arc on html5 canvas using the mouse. I got the start point from the mouse coordinates. I want to be able to draw the half circle as im moving the mouse and cant figure out how to do it.
7 Nov 2013 by Member 10388286
I created a rectangle within a functionNow I want to pass this rectangle into a function of eventsHow can I do this?Sample code I created: private void button2_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { //create new rectengle ...
7 Nov 2013 by johannesnestler
Hi Member,So your Problem is just how to obtain a reference to the clicked (draged...) rectangle in the eventhandler method? This is easy - you will get it through the sender parameter like this:Rectangle rect = sender as Rectangle;Or did you mean something else?
14 Nov 2013 by Member 10388286
I want to to pass a rectangle from one function to a second functionFor some reason the rectangel read to the event function as nullHow can I do this? private Point startpoint; private Rectangle rect; private void...
14 Nov 2013 by Mike Meinz
This is the simplest way to do it. private Point startpoint;// "rect" is declared at Class level so both canvas1_MouseRightButtonDown and canvas1_MouseMove can access private Rectangle rect; private void canvas1_MouseRightButtonDown(object sender,...
14 Nov 2013 by Grylion54
A couple of things to note. The first is, "private Rectangle rect;" and "Rectangle rect = new Rectangle();" are going to be two objects, with the second being local only to the method "canvas1_MouseRightButtonDown". To rectify this, remove the object identifier in the second so it is "rect =...
26 Nov 2013 by Mahmut Koyuncu
Hi Everyone,I tried to implement drag-drop application with mvvm in WPF. Everything is ok, but when the out of range, scroll is not appearing. For Example, DropArea is 600x800. If item location is (300,850), the vertical scrollbar is expected to be visible, and the horizontal scrollbar is...
10 Dec 2013 by Tharaka MTR
I have successfully implemented image library PhoneGap app which company users use to view our company published photos. In there I have implemented a feature, when you click an hold on the image then the image will be saved on Camara Roll of the mobile device. For implementing that I used the...
10 Dec 2013 by mughees ilyas
how to place an image on html5 canvas on click of a buttonand make it drag able and if possible rotate able
10 Dec 2013 by Peter Leow
A good tutorials on html5 drag and drop feature:http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_draganddrop.asp[^]and html5 rotate method:http://www.w3schools.com/tags/canvas_rotate.asp[^]
27 Jan 2014 by Member 10554347
Here's the javascript code:var LimitedArray = function (upperLimit) { var storage = []; // default limit on length if none/invalid supplied; upperLimit = +upperLimit > 0 ? upperLimit : 100; this.push = function (item) { storage.push(item); if...
27 Jan 2014 by OriginalGriff
Do you have any idea how much work explaining code line by line is?Every single line needs a paragraph of explanation! For example: int next = r.Next();Create a new variable called "next" which can hold a integer value. From the previously declared Random instance "r", call...