Question

I would like to run a text countdown on canvas but last I checked there was no way to write text to a canvas.

I would like to know if anyone else has come-across an implementation where I could do a numerical countdown from 60 to 0 on the canvas.

Answer 1

$(function () {
    var width = 200;
    var height = 200;
    $('canvas').width(width).height(height);
    var ctx = $('canvas')[0].getContext('2d');
    var i = 60;
    (function draw() {
        with(ctx) {
            fillStyle = '#000';
            fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
            fillStyle = '#0f0';
            font = 'bold 20px Arial';
            fillText(i, 100, 50)
            fill();
        }
        if (!(i--)) return;
        setTimeout(draw, 1000);
    })();
});

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