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geeky_monster
geeky_monster

Reputation: 8792

HTML5 Canvas - How to Draw a line over an image background?

I am trying to draw a line on top of an image background - in an HTML5 Canvas . However always the line gets drawn behind the image . Actually the line gets drawn first and then the pictures get drawn - irrespective of how I call the functions.

How do I bring the line to the top of the image ? 

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
            context.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
drawbackground(canvas, context); 
drawlines(canvas, context); 


function drawbackground(canvas, context){

    var imagePaper = new Image();


        imagePaper.onload = function(){


            context.drawImage(imagePaper,100, 20, 500,500);
        };

      imagePaper.src = "images/main_timerand3papers.png";
}



function drawlines(canvas, context){


            context.beginPath();
            context.moveTo(188, 130);
            context.bezierCurveTo(140, 10, 388, 10, 388, 170);
            context.lineWidth = 10;
            // line color
            context.strokeStyle = "black";
            context.stroke();
}

Upvotes: 20

Views: 42770

Answers (4)

aIKid
aIKid

Reputation: 28292

Or you can try this: 

drawbackground(canvas, context);
context.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-atop';
drawlines(canvas, context);

Upvotes: 4

Simon Sarris
Simon Sarris

Reputation: 63820

To be more efficient, assuming you are going to be doing multiple redraws of this line or lines, would be to set the CSS background-image of the canvas to be your image.

<canvas style="background-image:url('images/main_timerand3papers.png');"></canvas>

Upvotes: 9

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 2579

Change your image onload to something like this:

imagePaper.onload = function () {
    context.drawImage( imagePaper, 100, 20, 500, 500 );
    drawLines( canvas, context );
};

Then make sure you remove the earlier call to drawLines.

The important take away to this solution, is that the onload function will be executed sometime in the future, whereas the drawLines function is executed immediately. You must always be careful of how you structure your callbacks, especially when nesting them.

Upvotes: 7

Chango
Chango

Reputation: 6782

Totally untested code, but did you tried something like this?

function drawbackground(canvas, context, onload){

    var imagePaper = new Image();


        imagePaper.onload = function(){


            context.drawImage(imagePaper,100, 20, 500,500);
            onload(canvas, context);
        };

      imagePaper.src = "images/main_timerand3papers.png";
}

and then call the method like this...

 drawbackground(canvas, context, drawlines);

Upvotes: 21

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