This module implements a HTML5 Canvas on top of OpenVG (node-openvg). It is targeted to the raspberry-pi. By using the OpenVG APIs on the Raspberry PI, all graphics code will run on the GPU with hardware acceleration.
This library aims for API compatibility with node-canvas where it applies and makes sense. While node-canvas is targeted to create images off screen, node-openvg-canvas is targeted to main screen usage, but not yet for user interaction.
Currently there are only plans to implement the 2d context. Implementing the 3d context (web gl) should be possible by mapping OpenGL/ES.
This module is targeted for node 0.8.x. Node >= 0.8.10 will compile out of the box on the raspberry. For building instructions please refer to this gist.
node-openvg-canvas depends on freetype and freeimage. To install these libraries on the raspberry - assuming a raspbian distribution - use:
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfreeimage3 libfreeimage-dev
Fetch the source:
git clone https://github.com/luismreis/node-openvg-canvas.git
Build the package:
cd node-openvg-canvas
npm install
To test:
export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
examples/swissClock.js
Either run on your command line:
npm install openvg-canvas
or add it to your package.json:
[...]
"dependencies": {
"openvg-canvas" : "1.1.0"
},
[...]
The project now implements the full HTML 5 Canvas Level 1 specification, plus most of the non interactive features of Level 2. The current focus on the project for releases in the short term is performance.
Items marked as "✘" are not planned for implementation. Some due to insufficient information (eg. focus ring), others because they don't make sense in this implementation (eg. scrollPathIntoView).
| Object / Feature | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CanvasRenderingContext2D | ||
| - state - save/restore | ✔ | |
| - matrix transformations: scale, transform, etc | ✔ | |
| - compositing - alpha, composite operation | ✔ | |
| - image smoothing | ✔ | |
| - stroke/fill style | ✔ | |
| - solid colors | ✔ | |
| - gradients | ✔ | |
| - patterns | ✔ | Support for CanvasPattern's setTransform planned. |
| - shadows | ✔ | |
| - clear/fill/stroke rect | ✔ | |
| - beginPath, paths / path methods, fill, stroke | ✔ | See Path methods below |
| - focus ring | ✘ | |
| - scrollPathIntoView | ✘ | |
| - clipping region | ✔ | |
| - isPointInPath | to do | Really _hard stuff_™ here. Not supported by OpenVG. |
| - fill/stroke text | ✔ | Reasonably slow. |
| - measure text | ✔ | hanging and ideographic baselines not implemented. |
| - drawImage | ✔ | |
| - hit regions | ✘ | |
| - create/get/put image data | ✔ | |
| CanvasDrawingStyles | ||
| - line caps/joins - line width, cap, join, miter limit | ✔ | |
| - dashed lines | ✔ | |
| - text - font, textAlign, textBaseline | ✔ | |
| CanvasPathMethods | ✔ | |
| - beginPath | ✔ | Also available on the Path object. |
| - moveTo, lineTo | ✔ | |
| - quadraticCurveTo, bezierCurveTo | ✔ | Untested |
| - arcTo | ✔ | circular and elliptical |
| - rect | ✔ | |
| - arc | ✔ | See issue #2. |
| - ellipse | ✔ | See Issue #2. |
| CanvasGradient | ✔ | |
| - addColorStop | ✔ | |
| CanvasPattern | ✔ | OpenVG doesn't support one-directional patterns. For now only 'no-repeat' and 'repeat' work. |
| - setTransform | to do | Planned. |
| TextMetrics | ✔ | |
| HitRegionOptions | ✘ | |
| ImageData | ✔ | |
| Path | ✔ | see CanvasPathMethods |
| - (constructor) | ✔ | SVG path constructor after v1.0 |
| - addPath | ✔ | |
| - addPathByStrokingPath | ✘ | |
| - addText | ✔ | Position and Path variants |
| - addPathByStrokingText | ✘ |
On browsers, the Canvas rendering is controlled by the browser runtime - this is referred in the w3c docs as the ' "update the rendering" step'.
On node-canvas, user code explicitly calls toBuffer or similar functions to produce output. Note that this behavior can be reproduced on node-openvg-canvas by calling ImageData.saveToBuffer and/or Canvas.toBuffer.
Code running on node-openvg-canvas must explicitly swap display buffers, to do so, either call Canvas.vgSwapBuffers() or use the included requestAnimationFrame shim (for more information look at the clock examples) that does this after calling your paint (callback) function.
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Copyright (c) 2012 Luis Reis
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