Using `jsgif` to build layers over animated GIFs - javascript

I'm looking to get some help or guidance on the use of the excellent libgif.js library.
My objective is to take a page that has an animated gif and a png of text with transparent background, and then show the 2 images overlaid such that the resulting image can be copied to the clipboard.
I've succeeded in doing this with a static image as a template
However, if I try this with a gif, it merges the animated gif with the text image, but freezes the gif.
I've familiarized myself with the libgif.js library and have succeeded in using it to build a canvas from an animated gif and have it remain animated.
However, the text image is not being displayed in the final canvas, and I'm a little lost as to how I might go about fixing this.
Is it obvious to anyone why the textImage is being properly sized and (somewhat) apparently placed on the canvas, but not displayed in the final result?
As a side question, does anyone know why the progress bar completes quickly at first and then progresses more slowly a second time?
The HTML is rather long, but the JS from the JSFiddle is shown below (for those not willing to click through to the link).
function doit() {
var isGIF = true; // always true for now TODO: better way to test if-gif than regex for ".gif"
var previewContainer = document.getElementById("previewContainer");
var textImage = document.getElementById("textImage");
var templateImage = document.getElementById("templateImage");
var w = document.getElementById("templateImage").width;
var h = document.getElementById("templateImage").height;
previewContainer.removeChild(previewContainer.children[1]);
if (isGIF) {
var gif = new SuperGif({
gif: templateImage,
progressbar_height: 5,
auto_play: true,
loop_mode: true,
draw_while_loading: true
});
gif.load();
var canvas = gif.get_canvas();
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.drawImage(textImage, 0, 0, w, h);
previewContainer.replaceChild(canvas, previewContainer.children[0]);
}
}
Note: this solution was originally based on Arend's solution in the comments of this question from this JSFiddle.

You would have to tweak the library in order to get access to their rendering loop (like a frame_rendered event).
This way, you would be able to add whatever you want over the image the library drawn at every frame.
But since I'm too lazy to dig in there, here is a workaround :
Instead of appending the canvas returned by the library in the document, you can keep it offscreen, and draw it on an other, visible, canvas.
It is on this new canvas that you will also draw your textImage, in an rAF loop.
function doit() {
var previewContainer = document.getElementById("previewContainer");
var textImage = document.getElementById("textImage");
var templateImage = document.getElementById("templateImage");
var w = templateImage.width;
var h = templateImage.height;
previewContainer.removeChild(previewContainer.children[1]);
var gif = new SuperGif({
gif: templateImage,
progressbar_height: 5,
auto_play: true,
loop_mode: true,
draw_while_loading: true
});
gif.load();
var gif_canvas = gif.get_canvas(); // the lib canvas
// a copy of this canvas which will be appended to the doc
var canvas = gif_canvas.cloneNode();
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
function anim(t) { // our animation loop
context.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height); // in case of transparency ?
context.drawImage(gif_canvas, 0, 0); // draw the gif frame
context.drawImage(textImage, 0, 0, w, h); // then the text
requestAnimationFrame(anim);
};
anim();
previewContainer.replaceChild(canvas, previewContainer.children[0]);
}
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/buzzfeed/libgif-js/master/libgif.js"></script>
<div>
<input type="submit" id="doit" value="Do it!" onclick="doit()" />
</div>
<div id="previewContainer">
<img id="templateImage" src="https://i.imgur.com/chWt4Yg.gif" />
<img id="textImage" src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CmErq.png" />
</div>

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I am creating an instructional slideshow with HTML5 canvas. Each slide has animated 2D elements moving an scaling and a navigation pointing to each slide. Ultimately, I'd like to create this without using Animate CC, just incase the program goes away and I'd have to start from scratch if edits need to be made (like Edge files). I'd like to manually code this with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript preferably utilizing CreateJS.
I've located tutorials on simple slideshows and animated transitions, but I'm moreso looking for animation taking place in each slide or scene.
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You absolutely don't have to use Adobe Animate to create animated content with CreateJS.
Here is a revised version of #hadders's code using CreateJS. Note that you need to use 1.0 to get the "yoyo" effect, which TweenJS calls "bounce"
var stage, bmp;
function init() {
stage = new createjs.Stage("canvas");
createjs.Ticker.on("tick", stage);
bmp = new createjs.Bitmap("https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/56901/dog_1_small.jpg");
bmp.set({ x: 50, y: 50, alpha: 1});
stage.addChild(bmp);
createjs.Tween.get(bmp, {loop:-1, bounce:true}).to({
alpha: 0,
x:500,
y:400
}, 1000);
}
init();
Here is a fiddle with it in action: https://jsfiddle.net/8xmy6xuw/
Cheers,
Use a library such as GSAP. Create an object which contains the coords which you'll use to position the canvas elements e.g. {x:100, y:100} then use GSAP to tween the x/y values of the object. The canvas element can then be positioned/animated using this tweened coord object.
This seems like a decent enough example :
https://codepen.io/jonathan/pen/ychlf
HTML
<div id="canvas-wrapper">
<canvas id="canvas" width="800" height="600">canvas not supported</canvas>
</div>
JS
var ctx, img;
function init() {
ctx = document.getElementById("canvas").getContext("2d");
img = new Image();
img.src = "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/56901/dog_1_small.jpg";
img.xpos = 50;
img.ypos = 50;
img.globalAlpha = 1.0;
img.onload = function() {
TweenLite.ticker.addEventListener("tick",loop);
}
TweenMax.to(img, 1 ,{
   globalAlpha:0,
   xpos:500,
   ypos:400,
   repeat:-1,
   yoyo:true
});
}
function loop(){
ctx.clearRect(0,0,800,600);
ctx.globalAlpha = img.globalAlpha;
ctx.drawImage(img, img.xpos, img.ypos);
}
init();
hope that helps

Android Cordova - How to draw photo taken on canvas?

i'm working with an hybrid Android app and I need to take a picture from camera, process the image and then show the results obtained on another window that should contain a small preview of the picture taken and some text with the results.
Here is the relevant code that is not currently working as I need:
From script of first window:
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.
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CameraPreview.takePicture(function(imgData){
var mImage = new Image();
mImage.onload = function(){
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = mImage.width;
canvas.height = mImage.height;
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.drawImage(mImage, 0, 0);
var imgData = context.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
.
.(Process imgData[])
.
localStorage.setItem("resultImage", mImage.src);
window.open('result.html','_blank','location=no');
};
mImage.src = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,'+imgData;
});
Then, "result.html" pops up, which has the following html content:
...
<body>
...
<canvas id="resultCanvas" style="position: absolute; top: 0%; left: 0%;"></canvas>
...
</body>
...
And the following javascript code:
...
var mImage = new Image();
mImage.onload = function(){
var canvas = document.getElementById('resultCanvas');
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight*0.3; // 1/3 of phone screen size
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.drawImage(mImage);
navigator.notification.alert('Height = '+mImage.height+'\n'+'Width ='+mImage.width, function(){},'Image','Done');
};
mImage.src = localStorage.getItem("resultImage");
...
The alert window shows the 640x480 of the image, but the canvas is transparent where it should contain the picture taken.
If I replace the "context.drawImage()" statement with "context.fillrect()" I can see the black rectangle drawn on screen, so it looks that the canvas is there, but somehow I can not make it draw the desired image.
Hope I explained myself correctly.
I really appreciate any help. Thanks!
Well, finally I solved it, first I tryied using an "img" element instead of a canvas, and that works fine, but the problem is I need to make some drawings over the picture, so insisting on code I posted before, I realized the problem was on the use of drawImage() method in the second script, it is necessary to specify position, so replacing:
context.drawImage(mImage);
with
context.drawImage(mImage,0,0);
solved everything.

Paper.js Subraster Selecting Wrong Area

I'm working in a Paper.js project where we're essentially doing image editing. There is one large Raster. I'm attempting to use the getSubRaster method to copy a section of the image (raster) that the user can then move around.
After the raster to edit is loaded, selectArea is called to register these listeners:
var selectArea = function() {
if(paper.project != null) {
var startDragPoint;
paper.project.layers[0].on('mousedown', function(event) { // TODO should be layer 0 in long run? // Capture start of drag selection
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var leftmostX;
if(startDragPoint.x < endDragPoint.x) {
leftmostX = startDragPoint.x;
} else {
leftmostX = endDragPoint.x;
}
var width = Math.abs(startDragPoint.x - endDragPoint.x);
var topmostY;
if(startDragPoint.y < endDragPoint.y) {
topmostY = startDragPoint.y;
} else {
topmostY = endDragPoint.y;
}
var height = Math.abs(startDragPoint.y - endDragPoint.y);
var boundingRectangle = new paper.Rectangle(leftmostX, topmostY, width, height);
console.log(boundingRectangle);
console.log(paper.view.center);
var selectedArea = raster.getSubRaster(boundingRectangle);
var selectedAreaAsDataUrl = selectedArea.toDataURL();
var subImage = new Image(width, height);
subImage.src = selectedAreaAsDataUrl;
subImage.onload = function(event) {
var subRaster = new paper.Raster(subImage);
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subRaster.onMouseEnter = movableEvents.showSelected;
subRaster.onMouseDrag = movableEvents.dragItem;
subRaster.onMouseLeave = movableEvents.hideSelected;
};
}
});
}
};
The methods are triggered at the right time and the selection box seems to be the right size. It does indeed render a new raster for me that I can move around, but the contents of the raster are not what I selected. They are close to what I selected but not what I selected. Selecting different areas does not seem to yield different results. The content of the generated subraster always seems to be down and to the right of the actual selection.
Note that as I build the points for the bounding selection rectangle I do some translations. This is because of differences in coordinate systems. The coordinate system where I've drawn the rectangle selection has (0,0) in the center of the image and x increases rightward and y increases downward. But for getSubRaster, we are required to provide the pixel coordinates, per the documentation, which start at (0,0) at the top left of the image and increase going rightward and downward. Consequently, as I build the points, I translate the points to the raster/pixel coordinates by adding imageWidth/2 and imageHeight/2`.
So why does this code select the wrong area? Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Unfortunately I can't share the image I'm working with because it is sensitive company data. But here is some metadata:
Image Width: 4250 pixels
Image Height: 5500 pixels
Canvas Width: 591 pixels
Canvas Height: 766 pixels
My canvas size varies by the size of the browser window, but those are the parameters I've been testing in. I don't think the canvas dimensions are particularly relevant because I'm doing everything in terms of image pixels. When I capture the event.point.x and event.point.y to the best of my knowledge these are image scaled coordinates, but from a different origin - the center rather than the top left. Unfortunately I can't find any documentation on this. Observe how the coordinates work in this sketch.
I've also been working on a sketch to illustrate the problem of this question. To use it, hold Ctrl + Alt and drag a box on the image. This should trigger some logging data and attempt to get a subraster, but I get an operation insecure error, which I think is because of security settings in the image request header. Using the base 64 string instead of the URL doesn't give the security error, but doesn't do anything. Using that string in the sketch produces a super long URL I can't paste here. But to get that you can download the image (or any image) and convert it here, and put that as the img.src.
The problem is that the mouse events all return points relative to 0, 0 of the canvas. And getSubRaster expects the coordinates to be relative to the 0, 0 of the raster item it is extracting from.
The adjustment needs to be eventpoint - raster.bounds.topLeft. It doesn't really have anything to do with the image width or height. You want to adjust the event points so they are relative to 0, 0 of the raster, and 0, 0 is raster.bounds.topLeft.
When you adjust the event points by 1/2 the image size that causes event points to be offset incorrectly. For the Mona Lisa example, the raster size (image size) is w: 320, h: 491; divided by two they are w: 160, h: 245.5. But bounds.topLeft of the image (when I ran my sketch) was x: 252.5, y: 155.5.
Here's a sketch that shows it working. I've added a little red square highlighting the selected area just to make it easier to compare when it's done. I also didn't include the toDataURL logic as that creates the security issues you mentioned.
Here you go: Sketch
Here's code I put into an HTML file; I noticed that the sketch I put together links to a previous version of the code that doesn't completely work.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Rasters</title>
<script src="./vendor/jquery-2.1.3.js"></script>
<script src="./vendor/paper-0.9.25.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<main>
<h3>Raster Bug</h3>
<div>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
</div>
<div id="position">
</div>
</main>
<script>
// initialization code
$(function() {
// setup paper
$("#canvas").attr({width: 600, height: 600});
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
paper.setup(canvas);
// show a border to make range of canvas clear
var border = new paper.Path.Rectangle({
rectangle: {point: [0, 0], size: paper.view.size},
strokeColor: 'black',
strokeWidth: 2
});
var tool = new paper.Tool();
// setup mouse position tracking
tool.on('mousemove', function(e) {
$("#position").text("mouse: " + e.point);
});
// load the image from a dataURL to avoid CORS issues
var raster = new paper.Raster(dataURL);
raster.position = paper.view.center;
var lt = raster.bounds.topLeft;
var startDrag, endDrag;
console.log('rb', raster.bounds);
console.log('lt', lt);
// setup mouse handling
tool.on('mousedown', function(e) {
startDrag = new paper.Point(e.point);
console.log('sd', startDrag);
});
tool.on('mousedrag', function(e) {
var show = new paper.Path.Rectangle({
from: startDrag,
to: e.point,
strokeColor: 'red',
strokeWidth: 1
});
show.removeOn({
drag: true,
up: true
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});
tool.on('mouseup', function(e) {
endDrag = new paper.Point(e.point);
console.log('ed', endDrag);
var bounds = new paper.Rectangle({
from: startDrag.subtract(lt),
to: endDrag.subtract(lt)
});
console.log('bounds', bounds);
var sub = raster.getSubRaster(bounds);
sub.bringToFront();
var subData = sub.toDataURL();
sub.remove();
var subRaster = new paper.Raster(subData);
subRaster.position = paper.view.center;
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</script>
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jQuery and Canvas loading behaviour

After being a long time lurker, this is my first post here! I've been RTFMing and searching everywhere for an answer to this question to no avail. I will try to be as informative as I can, hope you could help me.
This code is for my personal webpage.
I am trying to implement some sort of a modern click-map using HTML5 and jQuery.
In the website you would see the main image and a hidden canvas with the same size at the same coordinates with this picture drawn into it.
When the mouse hovers the main picture, it read the mouse pixel data (array of r,g,b,alpha) from the image drawn onto the canvas. When it sees the pixel color is black (in my case I only check the RED value, which in a black pixel would be 0) it knows the activate the relevant button.
(Originally, I got the idea from this article)
The reason I chose this method, is for the page to be responsive and dynamically change to fit different monitors and mobile devices. To achieve this, I call the DrawCanvas function every time the screen is re-sized, to redraw the canvas with the new dimensions.
Generally, this works OK. The thing is ,there seems to be an inconsistent behavior in Chrome and IE(9). When I initially open the page, I sometimes get no pixel data (0,0,0,0), until i re-size the browser. At first I figured there's some loading issues that are making this happen so I tried to hack it with setTimeout, it still doesn't work. I also tried to trigger the re-size event and call the drawCanvas function at document.ready, still didn't work.
What's bothering me is most, are the inconsistencies. Sometimes it works, sometimes is doesn't. Generally, it is more stable in chrome than in IE(9).
Here is the deprecated code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){setTimeout(function() {
// Get main image object
var mapWrapper = document.getElementById('map_wrapper').getElementsByTagName('img').item(0);
// Create a hidden canvas the same size as the main image and append it to main div
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.height = mapWrapper.clientHeight;
canvas.width = mapWrapper.clientWidth;
canvas.fillStyle = 'rgb(255,255,255)';
canvas.style.display = 'none';
canvas.id = 'hiddencvs';
$('#map_wrapper').append(canvas);
// Draw the buttons image into the canvas
drawCanvas(null);
$("#map_wrapper").mousemove(function(e){
var canvas = document.getElementById('hiddencvs');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
var pos = findPos(this);
var x = e.pageX - pos.x;
var y = e.pageY - pos.y;
// Get pixel information array (red, green, blue, alpha)
var pixel = context.getImageData(x,y,1,1).data;
var red = pixel[0];
var main_img = document.getElementById('map_wrapper').getElementsByTagName('img').item(0);
if (red == 0)
{
...
}
else {
...
}
});
},3000);}); // End DOM Ready
function drawCanvas(e)
{
// Get context of hidden convas and set size according to main image
var cvs = document.getElementById('hiddencvs');
var ctx = cvs.getContext('2d');
var mapWrapper = document.getElementById('map_wrapper').getElementsByTagName('img').item(0);
cvs.width = mapWrapper.clientWidth;
cvs.height = mapWrapper.clientHeight;
// Create img element for buttons image
var img = document.createElement("img");
img.src = "img/main-page-buttons.png";
// Draw buttons image inside hidden canvas, strech it to canvas size
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0,cvs.width,cvs.height);
}
$(window).resize(function(e){
drawCanvas(e);
}
);
function findPos(obj)
{
...
}
</script>
I'd appreciate any help!
Thanks!
Ron.
You don't wait for the image to be loaded so, depending on the cache, you may draw an image or not in the canvas.
You should do this :
$(function(){
var img = document.createElement("img");
img.onload = function() {
var mapWrapper = document.getElementById('map_wrapper').getElementsByTagName('img').item(0);
...
// your whole code here !
...
}
img.src = "img/main-page-buttons.png";
});

Save canvas to image via toDataURL failed

I create a test code below and you can manipulate it on Jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Stallman41/57hvX/31/
HTML:
<canvas id="test_canvas" style="background-color : #FFFF00" ; width="500px"
; height="340px"></canvas>
<br>
<button id="test_put_btn">Put an image</button>
<br>
<button id="save_dataURL">Save to dataURL</button>
<br>
<button id="draw_back">Final step: draw 3 images back.</button>
<br>
<img id="first_img"; width="100px" ; height="100px" ;></img>
<img id="second_img"; width="100px" ; height="100px" ></img>
<img id="third_img"; width="100px" ; height="100px" ;></img>
Javascript:
var drawing_plate;
var context;
var dataURL_arr = new Array();
$(document).ready(function () {
drawing_plate = document.getElementById("test_canvas");
context = drawing_plate.getContext('2d');
$("#test_canvas").bind("mousedown", Touch_Start);
$("#test_canvas").bind("mousemove", Touch_Move);
$("#test_canvas").bind("mouseup", Touch_End);
}); //document ready.
function Touch_Start(event) {
event.preventDefault();
touch = event;
touch_x = touch.pageX;
touch_y = touch.pageY;
line_start_x = touch.pageX - 0;
line_start_y = touch.pageY - 0;
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(line_start_x, line_start_y);
}
function Touch_Move(event) {
event.preventDefault();
touch = event; //mouse
line_end_x = touch.pageX - 0;
line_end_y = touch.pageY - 0;
context.lineTo(line_end_x, line_end_y);
context.stroke();
}
$("#test_put_btn").click(function () {
var test_img = new Image();
test_img.src = "http://careerscdn.sstatic.net/careers/gethired/img/careers2- ad-header-so-crop.png";
context.drawImage(test_img, 0, 0);
});
$("#save_dataURL").click(function () {
dataURL_arr.push(drawing_plate.toDataURL("image/png"));
});
$("#draw_back").click(function () {
var f_image= $("#first_img")[0];
var s_image= $("#second_img")[0];
var t_image= $("#third_img")[0];
f_image.onload= function()
{
f_image.src= dataURL_arr[0];
}
f_image.src= dataURL_arr[0];
s_image.onload= function()
{
s_image.src= dataURL_arr[0];
}
s_image.src= dataURL_arr[0];
t_image.onload= function()
{
t_image.src= dataURL_arr[0];
}
t_image.src= dataURL_arr[0];
});
I develop a drawing plate on Android system, saving the drawings to a dataURL string. They can draw something on the canvas and put images on the canvas. And I need to let the users see their drawings on small icons.
I use canvas.toDataURL("image/png") to save the base64 string. And I choose <img> as the small icon container. However, what I got is only the drawings can be shown on the icon, and usually, when I write img.src= canvas.toDataURL("image/png"); the image shows nothing!
I investigate the issue for long time.
1. I think the problem might be the dataURL string is too long?
2. The support of the OS: Android?
The code in Jsfiddle here shows a similar procedure on my Android PhoneGap development.
First , you just draw something on the canvas, and press Press an image, and then Save to dataURL. But you should do the process three times. In this condition, the string array contains the base64 string generated by the drawings and the image.
In the final, you press Final step: draw 3 images back., nothing will be shown on the image icon.
In conclusion:
In my experience, as I write img.src= canvas.toDataURL("image/png"); (no matter the img is an dom element or var img = new Image();). It can't always work: sometimes it works... but sometimes not...(I work on Android 4.0.1, phonegap 1.7.0)
Second, especially if I store lots of base64 strings to an array, assigning them to lots of image DOM element, it definitely fails.
Third, if the user only draw something on the canvas, it can always work.( Except the example code in the Jsfiddle, but it works on my Android system...)
But if he draw an image context.drawImage(~) the image wouldn't show the pic.
Too much confusions...
I need to let the user can view their drawings in small icon, any alternative?
Some References:
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2
3
I just stumbled across this question.
Click Put an image, then click Save to dataURL, then check your JavaScript console for something like:
SecurityError: DOM Exception 18
It's a browser security feature. Because you've inserted an image from a different domain, it counts as a cross-origin request.
If you eliminate the security error, you can export the canvas to a data URL.
Another thing in your code.
The image you try to draw onto the canvas into your test_put_btn onclick event handler, your image will never show up (or it will sometimes work accidentally) because you don't wait for your image to be loaded to draw it onto the canvas.
You have to handle the "onload" event of your image and draw it into the handler to permit the drawing of your image.
Before your test_img.src statement, you have to put :
test_img.onload = function()
{
context.drawImage(test_img, 0, 0);
};
Plus, the image you try to access is not accessible --> For me it does not work

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