Rendering the canvas?

[liquidcarbon]

Hi, maybe a silly question...how do you render the resulting canvas?
Is there an HTML template with a CDN link to canvas.js or the like?

Thanks!

[DangerDrome]

ha, yeah I was just about to ask the same thing!
do I need to parse the output to or something?

• also where are the docs?

[rcmckee]

Hi, maybe a silly question...how do you render the resulting canvas?

Is there an HTML template with a CDN link to canvas.js or the like?

Thanks!

I exported the json string to a canvas.canvas file. Next I moved that file to my obsidian folder. You should see the canvas in the obsidian app.

The closest documentation is just reading the code files here.

# Save the canvas as JSON
json_str = canvas.to_json()
# save it to a file
with open("canvas.canvas", "w") as f:
    f.write(json_str)

[dh1011]

ha, yeah I was just about to ask the same thing! do I need to parse the output to or something?

* also where are the docs?

Hi, I created a PR for the docs here #2

[CheeksTheGeek]

Hi @liquidcarbon and @DangerDrome, this library is not meant to be a complete solution for Obsidian Canvas (which would include rendering and live-editing the canvas files as well), instead it's supposed to be for interfacing with the file format as per the specification given here.

P.S. @rcmckee's solution to your problem about how to view the Canvas files in their rendered mode.

If you still, really want a rendering solution out of this, which I can see why, since then the library could be used as a scriptable rendering solution, please let me know, and I would start working in that direction!

I myself love it when I want to build something but I think it'd be really hard to build it from scratch, but lo' and behold, there's a python library for most of the subparts, so I'd love to support whatever you want to build with such a solution.

I do want to give a fair warning, that I can't guarantee the speed of achieving this task, as it'll either be a PyOpenGL, or a more-interactive Qt based GUI solution, but in either direction, some design will be required, and I'm current in-between a university study term till December, which would hold my speed back a bit, but if someone looking at this thread's up for collaborating or taking a big part out of the process, I'm okay with it!

Sincerely,
chsh