Question

I am working on a visualization project. Based on my data I am plotting hundreds of small circle on canvas. I want to add a mouse over event so that whenever a mouse is the enclosing area of a circle it will show some node property from my data as a tool tip or as text on the canvas.
My current drawCircle method

function drawCircle(canvas,x,y,r) 
{
    canvas.strokeStyle = "#000000";
    canvas.fillStyle = "#FFFF00";
    canvas.lineWidth = 2;
    canvas.beginPath();
    canvas.arc(x,y,r,0,Math.PI*2,true);
    canvas.stroke();
    canvas.fill();
    canvas.closePath();
}

I have looked into kinetic.js
But can’t figure it out how I can call my drawCircle [repetitively] method using their library.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you still want to use KineticJS, you would put the Kinetic shape stuff inside your drawCircle routine. This is basically pulled out of their tutorial and stripped down:

function drawCircle(stage,x,y,r) {
  var circle = new Kinetic.Shape(function(){
    var context = this.getContext();
    // draw the circle here: strokeStyle, beginPath, arc, etc...
  });
  circle.addEventListener("mouseover", function(){
    // do something
  });
  stage.add(circle);
}

If you don’t want to use KineticJS after all, you will need to remember for yourself the positions and radii of every circle you drew, and then do something like this:

canvas.onmouseover = function onMouseover(e) {
  var mx = e.clientX - canvas.clientLeft;
  var my = e.clientY - canvas.clientTop;
  // for each circle...
  if ((mx-cx)*(mx-cx)+(my-cy)*(my-cy) < cr*cr)
    // the mouse is over that circle
}