Are there any rigging (posing) libraries for JavaScript? - html

I'm trying to make a website where you can drag body parts to make a character do a pose. I'm currently using Canvas and FabricJS and I want my images to have 'body parts'.
This video (watch in slow speeds) showcases exactly what I'm after.
The video above shows that when double-clicking on a body part, it will move to wherever you move your mouse to. The highlighted part is the part that will be movable. There are presets and things that would be useful but at the moment, I'm only looking for if such a thing is possible.
If there is no way to do it with Canvas or Fabric, do you know of any libraries I can use to get this to work?

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HTML overlapping images

I have to place on a web page a cylinder that looks like this:
it is composed by small images that overlaps to draw the curves on the surface. Every one of them is places on the page with a different img tag enveloped in an anchor with its own href. The z-index property of the img is used to make them overlap in the right way.
The cylinder has to be composed because it is dynamically created, as you can see from the image, its faces can have different colors.
What i need to do is to make all the faces clickable and each one has to point to a different URL.
My problem is, of course, that the cylinder has curves. And i have to be sure that the clicks points to the correct URL especially near the curves, it hasn't to be precise at pixel level, but at least acceptable.
I've tried to use a map with a single area for each of the images that composes the cylinder, but of course it didn't work, as i saw from the specifications, in such cases only the first declared map in the DOM works.
I'm thinking about to solve this via Javascript, but i think it wouldn't be an easy job, so i would be happy if someone can give me some advice on what should i try.
Oh, i cannot use HTML5 features to solve this.
Neat application of older technology to solve a challenging puzzle.
I can think of two ways forward for you. One is to put a transparent (rectangular) image on top of the cylinder and create an HTML image map, using the shape="poly" attribute. For resources, search for the HTML elements map and area for reference, especially the shape attribute. There should be many good tutorials online. Nowadays this technique isn't used that much any more, but it was really popular in the late 90s.
Another way is to use event delegation in javascript, attaching an event listener to the primary container. On each of your image "pixels" apply a CSS class for the appropriate portion of the cylinder it is in. In your event handler, you can do something differently depending on the class of the clicked on image, and you can do this without the massive overhead of attaching an event on each individual "pixel". In JQuery this would be something like:
$("#cylinder").on("click", ".green", function() { location.href = "green_url"; }
$("#cylinder").on("click", ".red", function() { location.href = "red url"; }
assuming you put class="green" on your green pixels and class="red" on your red pixels. (You can do this by quadrant or other technique; color is just an example).
Your best luck SVG ! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SVG/Tutorial
It is almost impossible with html dom elements to do this, you will have to bend it with CSS compatible all browsers.
There is also Canvas but you will have a hard time dealing with the clicks.
Only problem with SVG is that it's not supported in < IE8, and hardly in IE8. But bending a DOM element is also not available < IE9.
EDIT:
I saw that you can't use HTML5, so your only chance is generating the whole image in GD2 for example and trying to map the points. But what is the reason you can't use HTML5 ?
You might also try doing it using javascript / canvas via getImageData() function. This canvas function will rgba values of the given point. Using the alpha value you can check if mouse is over or clicking on the correct area or if it is a transparent area and nothing should happen.
I also made jquery plugin exactly for this purpose. Maybe it might help. http://www.cw-internetdienste.de/pixelselection/

Map opaque section of image

I was wondering how one would go about automatically making an image map based on just the opaque parts of a png image. You are normally able to click anywhere on the png image, even transparent areas, and it will register as clicking the image. Is there any way to exclude transparent areas and only have opaque areas register?
I assume there is some sort of javascript color detection feature, or something along those lines. I have access to jQuery on my website, as well.
Thank you for taking time to read and answer.
Trying to do this with images will be a major headache. It's possible that there is a javascript library out there to detect colors, but that's very complex stuff.
Maybe give svg a go if the graphics are simple.
This site (not mine) has a nice map using svg.

HTML5- What is the best way to move images that are already on a canvas

I decided last week that I wanted to play around with the Canvas. I am making a simple webapp (at my daughter's request), where there are ponies, and you can add them to your own picture and move them around.
I already have it so when a button is pressed, a picture of a pony comes up on the canvas.
My question now is, what is the best way to move multiple images when they are already on the canvas?
It would be great if I could drag them each, but I can only find tutorials using KineticJS, and I cannot get that to display how I want.
So, are there any other dragging images on Canvas tutorials out there?
Otherwise It would be okay to use keyboard buttons, but I cannot figure out how to do that with multiple images. When I use keyboard buttons, it moves all images at once.
Any ideas?
You have to keep track of where you draw each one, clear the entire canvas, and redraw each and every one of them (presumably moving some of them in the process).
None of this is built in to Canvas. I have a tutorial on making the Canvas interactive that covers keeping track of, placing, and moving (selecting) shapes on a Canvas. There's a live demo on that page and source code at the bottom of the article.

Rasterize a fragment of HTML to PNG

I have a page with a series of divs. Each div represents a slide in a slide deck. I need a series of thumbnails, one for each slide. Ideally these thumbnails would be rasterized versions of the slides: a PNG data: url would be perfect. I'd like the work to be done in the browser, and I'm okay with things that only work in one of the modern browsers (e.g. chrome, or firefox). I suspect this is impossible, but would love to hear otherwise.
The method toDataURL() on the canvas object is essentially what I want, but the divs in question aren't instances of canvas, so that won't work.
One solution can be to render HTML to a canvas by embedding the HTML into an SVG image as a <foreignObject> and then drawing the resulting image via ctx.drawImage().
Read the article on MDN here, or take a look at rasterizeHTML.js which is an implementation of said approach.
The limitations are that your content should all be same-origin clean (i.e. accessible by AJAX).
Disclaimer: I am the author of rasterizeHTML.js.
It isn't possible on the client side as this is forbidden to protect from potential frauds like for ie script that would take a screenshot of your page with some private data and send it god one knows where.
Although...
it is possible to copy whole HTML to use it as a thumb preview/whatever and use CSS3 transformations (scaling) + add overlay over it to prevent interactions/text selection etc to mimic a thumbnail of a div.
and there was an option in firefox/chrome extensions to save page to an image - though not sure if it was possible to take only part of the page as an image
or you can always do like google does on its search results page with their page preview (click the magnifying lens near the result title) - have a robot machine which enters the page and takes a screenshot of whatever to produce the preview of the page using this data - don't know how much you WANT to do that but if you wanted it that bad... :)
I'm afraid there is no easy way to do what you want and the CSS3 trick one seems to be the easiest one to pull of.
you can rasterize html to a <canvas> element in javascript with the rasterizeHTML library:
http://cburgmer.github.io/rasterizeHTML.js/

how to disable dragging of an html element (especially "img")?

i have a image that i don't want it drag-able or selectable so that no drag to other places on the page. how is that done?
If you want your visitors/users to see the resource on your page there is no way to stop them downloading it or saving it.
Possible options:
You can use JavaScript to prevent the context-menu popping up on right-click (related article: http://javascript.about.com/library/blnoright.htm).
You can cover the image with a transparent .png or .gif so that clicking on the image simple returns the transparent image.
But if the user can see the image on the webpage then it's already on their computer.
In reality this is far harder than you may think it will be, I assume you don't want people stealing your images which is a fair enough thing but just remember all the different ways in which someone can get an image from a web site. Your can catch the right click event and stop them at least doing that, but they can always just take a screenshot and save that instead. This is a slippery slope and it always ends the same way, if they really want to steal it, they're going to.
Since the image is just a binary data, and all the data is written on client PC's, for displaying reason it's up to th euser what they'll do with the data. There's no way you can prevent them from saving the picture displayed on a website.
All you might do is make it a little bit harder, by blocking right clicking on image, (displaying alert on right click, or something like this). But if the user really wants to save the picture they will do this anyway.
Why should you do it?
I can suggest a javascript that will able it: http://www.brownielocks.com/stopcopying.html
But every one, even with little experience can view the source and copy it. and even if you block them from viewing the source, they can use wireshark and get the picture directly. Even if you use flash to show the picture one can screen-capture the screen and retrieve the picture.
Put a watermark on the picture and use http://www.tineye.com/ from time to time and search for your picture. If you find others that use your picture - sue them. It is the most effective way.
It is impossible to prevent someone to store an image (or other resources) on their computer as others already have mentioned.
But another trick to make it harder (impossible for inexperienced people I guess) is to use CSS and background images:
<div style='background: url("myimage.gif");'></div>
The image is now on the background of the <div> block and cannot be dragged or right clicked in order to save it.
Using some coding knowledge it is possible to ind out the myimage.gif part, which can be added after the base URL in order download the image and save it. For example if the HTML page is at http://www.example.com/mypage.html the image could be found at http://www.example.com/myimage.gif
As I mentioned it is still possible to save the image, but for inexperienced people it is a lot harder.
Note: In this example the image is just put in the HTML tag, but with proper use of a CSS file, it is even harder to find for inexperienced people.
You cannot prevent a user from saving something from the web to his PC. The nearest thing that comes to my mind is the -moz-user-select CSS property... https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-user-select
This javascript snippet does exactly what OP asks:
document.addEventListener("dragstart", preventDrag);
function preventDrag(event) {
event.preventDefault();
}