Create an Interactive Flower Using HTML5

Manish Singh
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Introduction

This is a simple application for beginners that shows how to create an interactive flower on a canvas using HTML5. We know that HTML 5 is the advanced version of HTML. Basically HTML 5 can be used to develop 3D applications. This article is intended to help with the use of HTML5 tools to develop an interactive flower on a canvas application. <canvas> is an HTML element which can be used to draw graphics using scripting. It can be used to draw graphs to make photo compositions or do simple animations. The <canvas> element is a bitmap drawing API and once you have committed to a set of pixels you are stuck with them. Canvas is an important tag of a HTML 5 that is used to show the image and text in a HTML 5 application. I hope this article helps to create an interactive flower on a canvas using HTML5 tools.

Step 1 : First open a HTML editor such as Notepad.

Open start->Notepad.
The name of editor is "canvas".

Step 2 : Create a folder on a desktop.

Right-click on desktop->new->Folder.
Name of folder is "Tom".

Step 3 : Open Visual Studio.

Go to file -> New->Projects.
Crete an ASP. NET Web Application.
Name of "Flower.aspx".

Step 4 : Add a HTML file to your web application.

Right-click on Solution Explorer.
Add->add new item->HTML form.
The Name of the HTML form is "Demo.html".

Step 5 : Now in this step we define a function named drawling(). This function opens or closes a path and defines a height and width of a flower.

Code

function drawLine(Flower, lineLayer)
{

var stage = Flower.getStage();

var ctx = lineLayer.getctx();

ctx.save();

ctx.beginPath();

lineLayer.clear();

ctx.strokeStyle = "green";

ctx.lineWidth = 10;

ctx.moveTo(Flower.x, Flower.y);

ctx.lineTo(stage.width / 2, stage.height + 10);

ctx.fill();

ctx.stroke();

ctx.closePath();

ctx.restore();

}

Step 6 : Now in this step we we set a center of a flower and set a color of a mouse over and mouse down event.

Code

window.onload = function ()
{

var stage = new Kinetic.Stage("container", 578, 200);

var FlowerLayer = new Kinetic.Layer();

var lineLayer = new Kinetic.Layer();

var Flower = new Kinetic.Group();

var center = new Kinetic.Circle(
{

x: 0,

y: 0,

radius: 20,

fill: "yellow",

stroke: "black",

strokeWidth: 4

});

center.on("mousedown", function ()
{

Flower.draggable(true);

document.body.style.cursor = "pointer";

});

center.on("mouseover", function ()
{

this.setFill("orange");

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

center.on("mouseout", function ()
{

this.setFill("yellow");

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

Step 7 : Now in this step we set how many layers are defined in the flower and set a curve, color, rotation, of the flower layer.

Code

var pxt = new Kinetic.Shape(
{

drawFunc: function () {

var ctx = this.getctx();

ctx.globalAlpha = 0.8;

ctx.beginPath();

ctx.lineWidth = 4;

ctx.fillStyle = pxt.color;

ctx.moveTo(-5, -20);

ctx.bezierCurveTo(-40, -90, 40, -90, 5, -20);

ctx.fill();

ctx.stroke();

ctx.closePath();

color: "#00dddd",

draggable: true,

rotation: 2 * Math.PI * n / numpxts

});

pxt.on("dragstart", function ()
{

this.moveToTop();

center.moveToTop();

});

pxt.on("mouseover", function ()
{

this.color = "blue";

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

pxt.on("mouseout", function ()
{

this.color = "#00dddd";

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

Step 8 : Now in this step we define a demo of an interactive flower application code.

Code

<html>

<head>

</script>

</head>

function drawLine(Flower, lineLayer)
{

var stage = Flower.getStage();

var ctx = lineLayer.getctx();

ctx.save();

ctx.beginPath();

lineLayer.clear();

ctx.strokeStyle = "green";

ctx.lineWidth = 10;

ctx.moveTo(Flower.x, Flower.y);

ctx.lineTo(stage.width / 2, stage.height + 10);

ctx.fill();

ctx.stroke();

ctx.closePath();

ctx.restore();

}

window.onload = function ()
{

var stage = new Kinetic.Stage("container", 578, 200);

var FlowerLayer = new Kinetic.Layer();

var lineLayer = new Kinetic.Layer();

var Flower = new Kinetic.Group();

var center = new Kinetic.Circle(
{

x: 0,

y: 0,

radius: 20,

fill: "yellow",

stroke: "black",

strokeWidth: 4

});

center.on("mousedown", function () {

Flower.draggable(true);

document.body.style.cursor = "pointer";

});

center.on("mouseover", function ()
{

this.setFill("orange");

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

center.on("mouseout", function ()
{

this.setFill("yellow");

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

var pxt = new Kinetic.Shape(
{

drawFunc: function ()
{

var ctx = this.getctx();

ctx.globalAlpha = 0.8;

ctx.beginPath();

ctx.lineWidth = 4;

ctx.fillStyle = pxt.color;

ctx.moveTo(-5, -20);

ctx.bezierCurveTo(-40, -90, 40, -90, 5, -20);

ctx.fill();

ctx.stroke();

ctx.closePath();

color: "#00dddd",

draggable: true,

rotation: 2 * Math.PI * n / numpxts

});

pxt.on("dragstart", function ()
{

this.moveToTop();

center.moveToTop();

});

pxt.on("mouseover", function ()
{

this.color = "blue";

FlowerLayer.draw();

});

pxt.on("mouseout", function ()
{

this.color = "#00dddd";

FlowerLayer.draw();

});
<body onmousedown="return false;" bgcolor="#ff99cc">

<h1>Tom crate a interactive Flower</h1>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Step 9 : Press Ctrl + F5 to run the code in a browser.

Output

Click the mouse on the center; after that the color changes.

Click the mouse on a petal of a flower; after that the color changes.

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