Documentation

Learn all about jCanvas

jCanvas

• Introduction
• Syntax
• jCanvas Object
• Extending jCanvas
• Properties
• Methods

Canvas

• Clear Canvas
• Rotate Canvas
• Scale Canvas
• Translate Canvas
• Pixel Manipulation
• Get Canvas Image
• Draw Manually
• Detect Pixel Ratio

Drawings

• Arcs
• Arrows
• Curves
• Ellipses
• Images
• Lines
• Masking
• Paths
• Polygons
• Rectangles
• Slices
• Text
• Vectors

Layers

• Layer API
• Adding layers
• Retrieving layers
• Drawing layers
• Manipulating Layers
• Animating layers

Events

• Event API
• Mouse Events
• Mechanical Events
• Event Properties
• Draggable Layers
• Touch Events
• Event Hooks

Styles

• Colors
• Shadows
• Gradients
• Patterns
• Functions

Layer API

The jCanvas Layer API provides each canvas with a set of layers that you create. These layers provide a higher degree of interactivity on the canvas.

Each layer can contain only one drawing (rectangle, arc, image, etc.). This is because each drawing is the layer object itself.

Adding Layers

Retrieving Layers

Drawing Layers

Manipulating Layers

Animating Layers

Event API