I want to make an svg element (path, rect, or circle) be able to be draggable and give it resize handles.
But unlike HTML DOM, not all elements have an upper left hand corner x,y coordinate and a width and height for a box surrounding the content. This makes it inconvenient to make a generic resize or drag procedure.
Is it a good idea to have each path or circle be drawn inside its own svg object to give me a box to play with?
How is draggable/resizable typically implemented in SVG?
Note: For both drag and resize, you'll have to make separate cases for certain different types of elements. Take a look in the example I provide later on that handles the dragging of both ellipses and rectangles in the same set of functions.
To make an element dragable you use:
element.drag(move, start, up);
The three arguments are references to the functions that handle moving (dragging), starting (mouse down), and the stopping (mouseup).
For example to make a draggable circle (from the documentation):
window.onload = function() {
var R = Raphael("canvas", 500, 500);
var c = R.circle(100, 100, 50).attr({
fill: "hsb(.8, 1, 1)",
stroke: "none",
opacity: .5
});
var start = function () {
// storing original coordinates
this.ox = this.attr("cx");
this.oy = this.attr("cy");
this.attr({opacity: 1});
},
move = function (dx, dy) {
// move will be called with dx and dy
this.attr({cx: this.ox + dx, cy: this.oy + dy});
},
up = function () {
// restoring state
this.attr({opacity: .5});
};
c.drag(move, start, up);
};
jsFiddle example
In the above example, the ox
and oy
properties are tacked on to the element to keep track of its location, and these properties in conjunction with dx
and dy
are used to change the location of the element as it's being dragged.
A more complicated drag and drop to answer this question.
To make an object resizeable, you would simply create a second set of drag and drop methods for the resizer and just adjust the target elements height
and width
based on dragging the resizer.
Here's a full of one drag and drop and resizeable box I wrote up:
jsFiddle example of drag and drop and resizeable box
window.onload = function() {
var R = Raphael("canvas", 500, 500),
c = R.rect(100, 100, 100, 100).attr({
fill: "hsb(.8, 1, 1)",
stroke: "none",
opacity: .5,
cursor: "move"
}),
s = R.rect(180, 180, 20, 20).attr({
fill: "hsb(.8, .5, .5)",
stroke: "none",
opacity: .5
}),
// start, move, and up are the drag functions
start = function () {
// storing original coordinates
this.ox = this.attr("x");
this.oy = this.attr("y");
this.attr({opacity: 1});
this.sizer.ox = this.sizer.attr("x");
this.sizer.oy = this.sizer.attr("y");
this.sizer.attr({opacity: 1});
},
move = function (dx, dy) {
// move will be called with dx and dy
this.attr({x: this.ox + dx, y: this.oy + dy});
this.sizer.attr({x: this.sizer.ox + dx, y: this.sizer.oy + dy});
},
up = function () {
// restoring state
this.attr({opacity: .5});
this.sizer.attr({opacity: .5});
},
rstart = function () {
// storing original coordinates
this.ox = this.attr("x");
this.oy = this.attr("y");
this.box.ow = this.box.attr("width");
this.box.oh = this.box.attr("height");
},
rmove = function (dx, dy) {
// move will be called with dx and dy
this.attr({x: this.ox + dx, y: this.oy + dy});
this.box.attr({width: this.box.ow + dx, height: this.box.oh + dy});
};
// rstart and rmove are the resize functions;
c.drag(move, start, up);
c.sizer = s;
s.drag(rmove, rstart);
s.box = c;
};
The included event handlers (you can use more of course in conjunction with .node()
) and the drag and drop description is at the bottom of the page in the documentation.
You would simply make one Raphael canvas, and then each item would be a different element. Just assign them to variables so you can handle them, like in the example above ( c
was used to refer to the created circle element ).
In response to comments here is a simple drag and drop + resize able circle. The trick is that circles use the attributes cx
and cy
for positioning and r
for size. The mechanics are pretty much the same... an ellipse would be slightly more complicate, but again it's just a question of working with the right attributes.
jsFiddle example of drag and drop and resizeable circle
window.onload = function() {
var R = Raphael("canvas", 500, 500),
c = R.circle(100, 100, 50).attr({
fill: "hsb(.8, 1, 1)",
stroke: "none",
opacity: .5
}),
s = R.circle(125, 125, 15).attr({
fill: "hsb(.8, .5, .5)",
stroke: "none",
opacity: .5
});
var start = function () {
// storing original coordinates
this.ox = this.attr("cx");
this.oy = this.attr("cy");
this.sizer.ox = this.sizer.attr("cx");
this.sizer.oy = this.sizer.attr("cy")
this.attr({opacity: 1});
this.sizer.attr({opacity: 1});
},
move = function (dx, dy) {
// move will be called with dx and dy
this.attr({cx: this.ox + dx, cy: this.oy + dy});
this.sizer.attr({cx: this.sizer.ox + dx, cy: this.sizer.oy + dy});
},
up = function () {
// restoring state
this.attr({opacity: .5});
this.sizer.attr({opacity: .5});
},
rstart = function() {
// storing original coordinates
this.ox = this.attr("cx");
this.oy = this.attr("cy");
this.big.or = this.big.attr("r");
},
rmove = function (dx, dy) {
// move will be called with dx and dy
this.attr({cx: this.ox + dy, cy: this.oy + dy});
this.big.attr({r: this.big.or + Math.sqrt(2*dy*dy)});
};
c.drag(move, start, up);
c.sizer = s;
s.drag(rmove, rstart);
s.big = c;
};
Try Graphiti here is the link : Draw2d and Graphiti
It is based on Raphael and very easy to use.