I’m looking for a framework/library which enables me to perform several tasks on a

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I’m looking for a framework/library which enables me to perform several tasks on a

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I’m looking for a framework/library which enables me to perform several tasks on a HTML5-Canvas.

What I need are mechanisms to access objects after drawing them, so that they can be changed and parsed to XML. Furthermore I need to be able to Drag-and-Drop certain objects with the cursor.

I’ve already tried several frameworks but none of them gives the possibility to assign onDrag-Listeners to the object (only to the canvas). It might be possible to implement such behavior by hand but that grows complicated since I have to deal with much more than one object on the canvas. Also, performance is an important criterion, so it would be good if I could use optimized library-functions rather than my own miserable code. I do know of SVG as an alternative, so please don’t try to push me that way. I need to do that with canvas to compare the performances of both.

So i think, what I’m looking for is a framework which let’s me assign Listeners to canvas-objects. Animation-skills are not that important since everything will concentrate on the user-input by mouse.

Does anyone know of such a framework/library which fits my needs and can share some experience? I would be glad not being forced to test all the frameworks and libraries for HTML5-Canvas out there.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention: Besides geometric objects I also need to be able to draw paths (i.e. scribbles) and parse them. Although it’s not necessary to have handlers for them to, I would be happy, if i didn’t have to implement that myself outside the library.