I've found a simple drawer example online. It works fine on the PC.
When I run it, using Phonegap 2.7, on my Galaxy S4 (4.2.2), with Android 2.2 or 4.2.2, for the project, it just doesn't draw anything at all.
What am I doing wrong ?
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Desktops and Tablets</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-2.7.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
initialize();
});
// works out the X, Y position of the click inside the canvas from the X, Y position on the page
function getPosition(mouseEvent, sigCanvas) {
var x, y;
if (mouseEvent.pageX != undefined && mouseEvent.pageY != undefined) {
x = mouseEvent.pageX;
y = mouseEvent.pageY;
} else {
x = mouseEvent.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft + document.documentElement.scrollLeft;
y = mouseEvent.clientY + document.body.scrollTop + document.documentElement.scrollTop;
}
return { X: x - sigCanvas.offsetLeft, Y: y - sigCanvas.offsetTop };
}
var sigCanvas;
var context;
function initialize() {
sigCanvas = document.getElementById("canvasSignature");
context = sigCanvas.getContext("2d");
context.strokeStyle = 'Black';
context.lineWidth = 1;
if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) {
var drawer = {
isDrawing: false,
touchstart: function (coors) {
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(coors.x, coors.y);
this.isDrawing = true;
},
touchmove: function (coors) {
if (this.isDrawing) {
context.lineTo(coors.x, coors.y);
context.stroke();
}
},
touchend: function (coors) {
if (this.isDrawing) {
this.touchmove(coors);
this.isDrawing = false;
}
}
};
// create a function to pass touch events and coordinates to drawer
function draw(event) {
if (event.targetTouches[0] === undefined) {
context.closePath();
this.isDrawing = false;
return;
}
// get the touch coordinates. Using the first touch in case of multi-touch
var coors = {
x: event.targetTouches[0].pageX,
y: event.targetTouches[0].pageY
};
// Now we need to get the offset of the canvas location
var obj = sigCanvas;
if (obj.offsetParent) {
// Every time we find a new object, we add its offsetLeft and offsetTop to curleft and curtop.
do {
coors.x -= obj.offsetLeft;
coors.y -= obj.offsetTop;
}
// The while loop can be "while (obj = obj.offsetParent)" only, which does return null
// when null is passed back, but that creates a warning in some editors (i.e. VS2010).
while ((obj = obj.offsetParent) != null);
}
// pass the coordinates to the appropriate handler
drawer[event.type](coors);
}
// attach the touchstart, touchmove, touchend event listeners.
sigCanvas.addEventListener('touchstart', draw, false);
sigCanvas.addEventListener('touchmove', draw, false);
sigCanvas.addEventListener('touchend', draw, false);
// prevent elastic scrolling
sigCanvas.addEventListener('touchmove', function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
}, false);
}
else {
// start drawing when the mousedown event fires, and attach handlers to
// draw a line to wherever the mouse moves to
$("#canvasSignature").mousedown(function (mouseEvent) {
var position = getPosition(mouseEvent, sigCanvas);
context.moveTo(position.X, position.Y);
context.beginPath();
$(this).mousemove(function (mouseEvent) {
drawLine(mouseEvent, sigCanvas, context);
}).mouseup(function (mouseEvent) {
finishDrawing(mouseEvent, sigCanvas, context);
}).mouseout(function (mouseEvent) {
finishDrawing(mouseEvent, sigCanvas, context);
});
});
}
}
// draws a line to the x and y coordinates of the mouse event inside
// the specified element using the specified context
function drawLine(mouseEvent, sigCanvas, context) {
var position = getPosition(mouseEvent, sigCanvas);
context.lineTo(position.X, position.Y);
context.stroke();
}
// draws a line from the last coordiantes in the path to the finishing
// coordinates and unbind any event handlers which need to be preceded
// by the mouse down event
function finishDrawing(mouseEvent, sigCanvas, context) {
// draw the line to the finishing coordinates
drawLine(mouseEvent, sigCanvas, context);
context.closePath();
// unbind any events which could draw
$(sigCanvas).unbind("mousemove")
.unbind("mouseup")
.unbind("mouseout");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Canvas test</h1>
<div id="canvasDiv">
<canvas id="canvasSignature" width="500px" height="500px" style="border:2px solid #000000;"></canvas>
</div>
</body>
</html>