temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Hi,

I'm developing an application that is going to be used in schools as
a teaching aid and require the ability to temporarily draw on my (as
in pages produced by my application) web page using javascript (such
as a teacher drawing a circle around part of the text or image on the
page to point it out to the students).

I'm not sure how i would do this but think it may have something to do
with the <canvashtml element?

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

What about generating an object which has onClick function to switch
itself to black (using css) and generating a lot of this object so
that it covers the entire HTML page? (Kind of like the idea of pixels)

I doubt this will be effecient though.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Hmmm, there must be a better way, but thanks for the suggestion...

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

macca wrote:"I have no clue what I'm doing, and I'm too lazy or too stupid to find me
one. Right?"

<http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>


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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Erm okay.

If you dont have anything useful or constructive bring to the thread,
why bother saying anything at all?

Stupid Troll.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

macca wrote:There was something constructive and useful in it, like "please search
before you post" or "please ask intelligible and intelligent questions
here". But you appear to be too stupid to recognize that. Expected
googlodyte behavior confirmed again.
Said the luser.


Score adjusted

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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

"disappearedng" <disappearedng@gmail.comwrote in message
news:d7d59b04-aae0-4e67-83f8-bc4ac590bda7@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com...Would you care to quote a bit of the message you are replying to? I didn't
get the original message so I have no bloody idea what you are talking
about.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

"macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.comwrote in message
news:49481d83-509d-4b53-ae29-9cef420a1bf1@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com...You too!

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

"macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.comwrote in message
news:7b5ccc71-1a8d-4ee2-91b4-87db8e1d36fb@b31g2000prb.googlegroups.com...Ah, your original post just hit my server. My prior comments still stand
though.


As to your question: The canvas element and: google.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On Nov 12, 8:20*pm, macca <ptmcna...@googlemail.comwrote:Yes, use the "canvas", but note that there's no "canvas" in IEs. See
this thread, it's about ~the same question, and contains a working
example:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....7f66b3b41cd9d8


HTH,
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Jorge
"Silly things such as logic, common sense, rational thoughts or good
manners are not allowed in this forum."

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Thanks for the link to that thread Jorge. I've managed to modify one
of the examples and get it to work in ff on top of text by adding the
text in a div and giving the div a negative z-index, but as previously
stated it does not work inn IE. Grrr!

I've even added the excanvas.js script in my header etc to try and get
it working in IE but no cigar. I don't proclaim to be a js guru so
would appreciate any useful help.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

In comp.lang.javascript message <96fbdc45-be96-413f-8051-edb4ca5bed81@u1
8g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:58:30, macca
<ptmcnally@googlemail.composted:Since you are developing material for use in schools, you need a better
understanding of the psychologically abnormal than you have so far
demonstrated. Thomas Lahn serves to remind us of what so many famous
Germans of the past have been like.

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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On Nov 14, 3:39*pm, macca <ptmcna...@googlemail.comwrote:I don't think anybody but M$ can help you with this. And not even
them, as 50% of the world is still using IEs 6s and 7s. Nothing will
change when IE8 finally comes out (wow, they must have been working so
hard at redmond, 3rd M$ browser in ~8 years !). It's just that M$
feels that the web might hurt their (so lucrative) OS/Windows API lock
business, so they are doing and have been doing and will keep doing as
much as possible to impede the web evolution as much as possible.

That has created a business opportunity, and macromedia, now adobe,
has seen it and happily provides you their propietary solution: flash.

I, for one, would develop it using the canvas tag, and happily splash
a beautiful "Sorry, but your browser is so way outdated and full of
bugs that we don't support it anymore." in the face of IE users...
"Any (other) modern standards-compliant browser will do: try with
Safari, FireFox or Opera".

--
Jorge.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On Nov 14, 8:45*pm, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.comwrote:....or Chrome, of course.

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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On 2008-11-14 14:32, Dr J R Stockton wrote:That comment was completely uncalled for and in incredibly bad taste.


- Conrad

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Dr J R Stockton meinte:
Ah, the famous British humour, Sun style.

Gregor

But anyway, since he's developing material for use in schools, he should
have an idea how to formulate meaningful questions.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Are you trying to say that my question is not meaningful? If so, maybe
you should go back to school yourself.

What's the matter with some of you people? If you can't say something
H E L P F U L ...go away!

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

macca wrote on 14 nov 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:
Hey, this is usenet, not a helpdesk.

And please quote properly by not stripping the name od the one you are
quoting.

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The Netherlands.
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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

macca meinte:
Indeed. And I'm gonna prove that.
I do that frequently.

But let's see:

"I'm not sure how i would do this but think it may have something to do
with the <canvashtml element?"

That's no question, despite the question mark. Really.
Anyway, even if we're so kind to reformulate it into
"Has this something to do with the 'canvas' element?" more than
satisfactory responses would be (Macca are you listening!?):

"It depends."
"Could be."
"Perhaps."

HTH, Gregor
You could sod off just as well. In fact *you* are the first-timer.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On Nov 14, 11:15*pm, Conrad Lender <crlen...@yahoo.comwrote:That's been completely uncalled for and in incredibly bad manners as
well:

"I have no clue what I'm doing, and I'm too lazy or too stupid to find
me
one. Right?"

Why don't you say so in the first place ?

--
Jorge.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On Nov 14, 11:27*pm, Gregor Kofler <use...@gregorkofler.atwrote:Me thinks it's really you who's got a problem if you didn't get it...

Anyway, if you don't know, don't mind, don't like the wording, or
don't understand the question, just stay away from the thread and
we'll all be happy then. Because this isn't no one's private garden,
did you know ?

--
Jorge.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Jorge meinte:Whatever...
It's not your newsgroup either. Didn't you know?

For the more perceptive: I was replying to Doc Stockton's answer (which
in turn yielded nothing for the OP).

Gregor

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On Nov 15, 12:43*pm, Gregor Kofler <use...@gregorkofler.atwrote:Nor Thomas' nor Conrad's nor yours nor Evertjan's.

--
Jorge.

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Jorge wrote on 15 nov 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:
Which is no matter, as

1 usenet is NOT a helpdesk.

2 yield is a subjective measure.

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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On 2008-11-15 09:53, Jorge wrote:I'm certainly not defending Thomas's fondness for harsh replies, but
that doesn't give Dr Stockton the right to associate him with a regime
that ended when his parents likely weren't even born. Stereotypical
remarks like that are far more insulting than being called "lazy or
stupid", and an educated person should know better than to resort to
knee-jerk generalizations like that. I hope that makes my reaction
clearer to you.

Anyway, Stockton's remark has Godwinned the thread, and there's no point
in further discussion. The OP's attitude doesn't exactly motivate me to
help him either, even though there are numerous examples for what he's
trying to do.
Say what?


- Conrad

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Conrad Lender wrote:Yeah, comparing Thomas to Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber is really
beyond the pale.

--
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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

In comp.lang.javascript message <4dudnYyeqJEEZYDUnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@supern
ews.com>, Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:15:52, Conrad Lender <crlender@yahoo.com>
posted:You seem to be unaware of all the famous German writers, technicians and
mathematicians of the past - enlighten yourself by reference to
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_germans>. Examples include Benz,
Bessel, Bethe, Born, von Braun, Bunsen, Cantor, Copernicus, Diesel,
Heisenberg, Lilienthal, Nernst, Noether, Ohm, Planck, Rienmann,
Roentgen, Weyl, Zuse ; and by inclination an honorary place goes to
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, ancestor of the famous chopper of Dutch
wood. And Bruch Pachelbel, Handel, Mendelssohn, Offenbach, a plethora
of other Bachs, Beethoven, (I omit Stockhausen), Wagner, ...

Granted, Lahn is undoubtedly their intellectual inferior; but you must
have judged his nature to be more reminiscent of the minority of an
altogether different sort.

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re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

On 2008-11-16 17:37, Dr J R Stockton wrote:So you were only comparing Thomas Lahn to Beethoven and Zuse, and
actually making him a compliment? Please excuse me if I find this hard
to believe - your remark wouldn't make any sense at all in that context
(you did call him "psychologically abnormal" in the same paragraph).

On the other hand, "weaseling out of things [we wrote] is important to
learn. It's what separates us from the animals. ...except the weasel."


- Conrad

re: temporarily draw freehand on a page using javascript

Conrad Lender wrote:Although I'm glad and thankful to see some common sense here:
Never argue with an idiot ... or, IOW, do not feed the troll.


HTH

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