I have some functions to draw rectangles on a canvas element. When the element is drawn, I want to be able to resize it by dragging its corners.
Do a handle system: when the mouse move, get the distance to each corner to get the first one that is near the cursor then save it and resize your rectangle according to it.
Here is a JSfiddle illustrating it: http://jsfiddle.net/BaliBalo/9HXMG/
function getHandle(mouse) {
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x, rect.y)) <= handlesSize) return 'topleft';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x + rect.w, rect.y)) <= handlesSize) return 'topright';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x, rect.y + rect.h)) <= handlesSize) return 'bottomleft';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x + rect.w, rect.y + rect.h)) <= handlesSize) return 'bottomright';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x + rect.w / 2, rect.y)) <= handlesSize) return 'top';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x, rect.y + rect.h / 2)) <= handlesSize) return 'left';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x + rect.w / 2, rect.y + rect.h)) <= handlesSize) return 'bottom';
if (dist(mouse, point(rect.x + rect.w, rect.y + rect.h / 2)) <= handlesSize) return 'right';
return false;
}
Make sure to use some kind of threshold value to check for dragging on corners, use a closeEnough
variable to hold this threshold then check corners by seeing if the absolute value of the difference between corner point and mouse point is less than the threshold. Apart from that, it is just a lot of cases to go through. Here is a jsFiddle of it
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas'),
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'),
rect = {},
drag = false,
mouseX,
mouseY,
closeEnough = 10,
dragTL=dragBL=dragTR=dragBR=false;
function init() {
canvas.addEventListener('mousedown', mouseDown, false);
canvas.addEventListener('mouseup', mouseUp, false);
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', mouseMove, false);
}
function mouseDown(e) {
mouseX = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft;
mouseY = e.pageY - this.offsetTop;
// if there isn't a rect yet
if(rect.w === undefined){
rect.startX = mouseY;
rect.startY = mouseX;
dragBR = true;
}
// if there is, check which corner
// (if any) was clicked
//
// 4 cases:
// 1. top left
else if( checkCloseEnough(mouseX, rect.startX) && checkCloseEnough(mouseY, rect.startY) ){
dragTL = true;
}
// 2. top right
else if( checkCloseEnough(mouseX, rect.startX+rect.w) && checkCloseEnough(mouseY, rect.startY) ){
dragTR = true;
}
// 3. bottom left
else if( checkCloseEnough(mouseX, rect.startX) && checkCloseEnough(mouseY, rect.startY+rect.h) ){
dragBL = true;
}
// 4. bottom right
else if( checkCloseEnough(mouseX, rect.startX+rect.w) && checkCloseEnough(mouseY, rect.startY+rect.h) ){
dragBR = true;
}
// (5.) none of them
else {
// handle not resizing
}
ctx.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
draw();
}
function checkCloseEnough(p1, p2){
return Math.abs(p1-p2)<closeEnough;
}
function mouseUp() {
dragTL = dragTR = dragBL = dragBR = false;
}
function mouseMove(e) {
mouseX = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft;
mouseY = e.pageY - this.offsetTop;
if(dragTL){
rect.w += rect.startX-mouseX;
rect.h += rect.startY-mouseY;
rect.startX = mouseX;
rect.startY = mouseY;
} else if(dragTR) {
rect.w = Math.abs(rect.startX-mouseX);
rect.h += rect.startY-mouseY;
rect.startY = mouseY;
} else if(dragBL) {
rect.w += rect.startX-mouseX;
rect.h = Math.abs(rect.startY-mouseY);
rect.startX = mouseX;
} else if(dragBR) {
rect.w = Math.abs(rect.startX-mouseX);
rect.h = Math.abs(rect.startY-mouseY);
}
ctx.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
draw();
}
function draw() {
ctx.fillRect(rect.startX, rect.startY, rect.w, rect.h);
}
init();