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FabricJS – Capturing the Stream of a Polygon Converted to a HTMLCanvasElement?
We can create a Polygon object by creating an instance of fabric.Polygon. A polygon object can be characterized by any closed shape consisting of a set of connected straight line segments. Since it is one of the basic elements of FabricJS, we can also easily customize it by applying properties like angle, opacity etc.
In order to convert a polygon object into HTMLCanvasElement we use the toCanvasElement method. It returns the DOM element of type HTMLCanvasElement, an interface which inherits its properties and methods from the HTMLElement interface. We use the captureStream method to capture stream of Polygon converted to HTMLCanvasElement. It returns CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack which is a real-time stream capture of the surface of the canvas.
Syntax
HTMLCanvasElement.captureStream()
Example 1: Using the toCanvasElement method
Let’s see a code example to see the logged output when the toCanvasElement method is used. On using the toCanvasElement method, the DOM element of type HTMLCanvasElement is returned. The HTMLCanvasElement interface provides various methods and properties for changing the presentation of the canvas. It inherits the properties and methods of the HTMLElement interface. You can open the console from dev tools to see that the DOM element of type HTMLCanvasElement is being returned.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- Adding the Fabric JS Library-->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/510/fabric.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Using the toCanvasElement method</h2>
<p>You can open console from dev tools to see the logged output</p>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<script>
// Initiate a canvas instance
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
canvas.setHeight(250);
// Initiate a polygon object
var polygon = new fabric.Polygon(
[
{ x: 600, y: 310 },
{ x: 650, y: 450 },
{ x: 600, y: 480 },
{ x: 550, y: 480 },
{ x: 450, y: 460 },
{ x: 300, y: 210 },
],
{
fill: "#778899",
stroke: "blue",
strokeWidth: 5,
top: 50,
left: 100,
scaleX: 0.5,
scaleY: 0.5,
}
);
// Adding it to the canvas
canvas.add(polygon);
// Using toCanvasElement method
console.log(
"The output on using toCanvasElement method is:",
polygon.toCanvasElement()
);
</script>
</body>
</html>
Example 2: Using captureStream method
Let’s see a code example to see the logged output when the captureStream method is used along with toCanvasElement method to find the CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack
We can open the console from dev tools to see the real time stream capture object of the Polygon object.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- Adding the Fabric JS Library-->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/510/fabric.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Using captureStream method</h2>
<p>You can open console from dev tools to see that the CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack is being returned </p>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<script>
// Initiate a canvas instance
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
canvas.setHeight(250);
// Initiate a polygon object
var polygon = new fabric.Polygon(
[
{ x: 600, y: 310 },
{ x: 650, y: 450 },
{ x: 600, y: 480 },
{ x: 550, y: 480 },
{ x: 450, y: 460 },
{ x: 300, y: 210 },
],
{
fill: "#778899",
stroke: "blue",
strokeWidth: 5,
top: 50,
left: 100,
scaleX: 0.5,
scaleY: 0.5,
}
);
// Adding it to the canvas
canvas.add(polygon);
// Using toCanvasElement method
var polygonCanvas = polygon.toCanvasElement({
width: 200,
});
// Using captureStream method
console.log(
"The real time stream capture of the canvas is as follows:",
polygonCanvas.captureStream()
);
</script>
</body>
</html>
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we used two simple examples to demonstrate how you can capture the stream of a Polygon converted to a HTMLCanvasElement using FabricJS.
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