Question

I am a bit confused here about how to interact with an image in a canvas.

My images load but I want to be able to click a given image and work out which image the mouse has clicked.

But the images can be offset aswell which makes matters more confusing, so I was wondering if there was a some kind of mathematical way to calculate which image your mouse is over when you click the canvas?

Answer 1

Not tried in on a canvas, but maybe it can help (part is jQuery), base rely on DOM function elementFromPoint():

getElemFromPos = function(x,y,def)
{
 var f = 'elementFromPoint',
     x=parseInt(x),y=parseInt(y),d=$j(document);
 if(!d[0][f] || isNaN(x) || isNaN(y)) return def;
 var w=$(window),bRel=0;
 if( !d[0].__ajqefpc )
 {
   var sl=d.scrollTop();
   if( sl >0)
    { bRel = (d[0][f](0, sl + w.height() -1) == null); }
   else if((sl = d.scrollLeft())>0 )
         { bIsRel = (d[0][f](sl + w.width() -1, 0) == null); }
   d[0].__ajqefpc=(sl>0);
 }

 if(!bRel)
 {
   x += d.scrollLeft();
   y += d.scrollTop();
 }

 var r = d[0][f](x,y);
 return (r && r!=null)?r:false;
};