How to create a canvas with a wait cursor using FabricJS?


In this article, we are going to create a canvas with a wait cursor using FabricJS. A wait cursor can be used to indicate a busy program in the background which also stops the user from interacting with the interface. wait is one of the native cursor style available which can be used in the FabricJS canvas too.

FabricJS provides various types of cursors like default, all-scroll, crosshair, col-resize, row-resize, etc. that reuse the native cursor under the hood. Each of these cursors look slightly different based on operating system.

Syntax

new fabric.Canvas(element: HTMLElement|String, { defaultCursor: String }: Object)

Parameters

  • element − This parameter is the <canvas> element itself which can be derived using document.getElementById() or the id of the <canvas> element itself. The FabricJS canvas will be initialized on this element.

  • options (optional) − This parameter is an Object which provides additional customizations to our canvas. Using this parameter, properties such as color, cursor, border width, and a lot of other properties can be changed related to the canvas, of which defaultCursor is a property with which we can set the type of cursor that we want.

Example 1

The defaultCursor property accepts a String which determines the name of the cursor to be used on the canvas. We will set it to wait to use the wait cursor. Let's see an example to create a canvas with a wait cursor using FabricJS:

<!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>Canvas with a wait cursor using FabricJS</h2>
   <p>Bring the cursor inside the canvas to see the changed shape of cursor</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      //Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas", {
         defaultCursor: "wait"
      });
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Example 2

In this example, we will add a circle to the canvas along with the wait cursor.

<!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>Canvas with a wait cursor using FabricJS</h2>
   <p>Here we have added a circle to the canvas along with a wait cursor</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      //Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas", {
         defaultCursor: "wait"
      });
      // Initiate a Circle instance
      var circle = new fabric.Circle({
         radius: 50,
         fill: "green"
      });
      // Render the circle in canvas
      canvas.add(circle);
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Updated on: 19-May-2022

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