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nomaam
nomaam

Reputation: 1263

JavaScript / HTML5 - Fetch Canvas Object Text?

I am working with javascript / html and trying to fetch the text from a canvas object which is already created on the page.

I would like to click a button after the page is already loaded and see the text from the canvas object. Here is the code I am trying. 

var CheckCanvas = document.getElementById(className);
var CheckContext = CheckCanvas.getContext('2d');

alert( 'btn text: ' + CheckContext.Text );

I have also tried fetching the 'fillText' property but I am unable to get the text from the object.

Any help would be much appreciated. I'm sure it's simple, but I could not find a solution.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12065

Answers (3)

redGREENblue
redGREENblue

Reputation: 3126

Okay. First of all, there is no way to do it using currently available canvas methods (or I am not aware of it). One way to do is to write your own class but that's a whole lot of work. I will suggest that you use a canvas library like kineticjs or fabricjs which will make it very easy to implement such function. Here's an example of how you can do it using fabricjs.

<canvas id="canvas1"></canvas>
<button id="addtext">Add Text </button>
<button id="retText">Retrive Text </button>

var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('canvas1');

document.getElementById('addtext').onclick = function() {
    var textVar = new fabric.Text("Hello World!");
    textVar.left=100;
    textVar.top=100;
    canvas.add(textVar);

  };
document.getElementById('retText').onclick = function() {
     var activeObject = canvas.getActiveObject();
      if (activeObject && activeObject.type === 'text') {
        alert(activeObject.text);
      }
    else
    {
        alert ("No object selected or Selected object not text");
    }
  };

jsFiddle here.

Upvotes: 1

TryingToImprove
TryingToImprove

Reputation: 7407

You wont be able to get the text from a canvas object because it is a image.. You can however store the text in a variable before it have been drawed, and then output it later.

var text = "Hello";

conxtext.fillText(text, 100, 100);

alert("value: " + text);

Upvotes: 4

Grace Huang
Grace Huang

Reputation: 5709

See http://jsfiddle.net/ws5aK/

CheckContext.fillText works, but there is no such property called Text.

Upvotes: 0

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