kinetic-editable-text

A KineticJS library which enables text creation and editing directly on the canvas

Summary

Re-inventing the wheel in text editing!

This tool was created in order to avoid the HTML textarea popup when wanting to enter text on the canvas. Most operations are supported, such as cursor movement, backspace, delete, and entering new lines.

Selecting text is not yet supported.

Initialization

Without a module loader

The global Kinetic object will be extended with Kinetic.EditableText

With CommonJS or AMD

kinetic-editable-text will return an object containing an init method. Kinetic is passed as the first argument to the init method, and will be extended with Kinetic.EditableText. An AMD example:

define([ 'Kinetic', 'kineticEditableText' ], function( Kinetic, kineticEditableText ){
    console.log( typeof Kinetic.EditableText ); // undefined

    kineticEditableText.init( Kinetic );

    console.log( typeof Kinetic.EditableText ); // function
});

API

Kinetic.EditableText.focus()

Focus the Kinetic.EditableText field so that it will start receiving text input.

Kinetic.EditableText.unfocus()

Unfocus the Kinetic.EditableText field so that it will stop receiving text input.

Kinetic.EditableText.addChar( character )

Add the specified character (string) to the Kinetic.EditableText field at the current cursor position.

Kinetic.EditableText.text( string )

This method mimics Kinetic.Text.text. If string is provided, the text in the Kinetic.EditableText field will be set to string; otherwise, the text currently in the field will be returned.

Kinetic.EditableText.backspaceChar()

Remove the character to the left of the current cursor position.

Kinetic.EditableText.deleteChar()

Remove the character to the right of the current cursor position.

Kinetic.EditableText.clear()

Remove all of the characters from the Kinetic.EditableText field.

Example

See index.html

About

• Licenced under GNU General Public License, Version 3.0
• Used in Learnitopia for text input in Virtual Classrooms.

Known Issues

• Selecting text is not supported.
• Copy paste (from outside text) is not fully functional yet.

Limitations

Tested with Kinetic v5.1.0 and v5.1.1

Contributions

Feel free to make a pull request and contribute to making this tool better.