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<title>Project 1: Basic Drawing and Interaction</title>
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<a href="#main" class="vh">Jump directly to main content</a>
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<h1 style="font-size: 2.4rem">Project 1: Basic Drawing and Interaction</h1>
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<p>Switching away from the server-side stuff after getting the stack setup, I've opted to the basic game 'drawn', and 'playable', if you can call it those.</p>
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<h2>Drawing</h2>
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<p>Since I'm using JS and HTML canvas I need to draw each shape onto the canvas setting each individual shapes co-ordinates and size. This sounds simple, but the more shapes you draw, and the more you don't want them to overlap, or to add zoomed in/out shapes it gets much more complicated than you'd think. This is a prime example of why a solid grasp on basic mathematics is good for developers.</p>
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<h3>Shape class</h3>
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<p>Repeating the setting of context data, and the drawing of each shape became tedious and took a big chunk of my code-base after not long, so I decided to simplify by creating a Path2D extended class.</p>
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<pre class="pre--small"><code>class Shape extends Path2D{
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constructor(params){
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super();
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this.shape = params.shape || 'rectangle';
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this.name = params.name;
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this.x = params.x || 0;
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this.y = params.y || 0;
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this.width = params.width || 0;
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this.height = params.height || 0;
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this.fillStyle = params.fillStyle || "#FFFFFF";
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}
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draw(){
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context.fillStyle = this.fillStyle;
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if(this.shape == 'circle'){
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context.beginPath();
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context.arc(this.x, this.y, this.width/2, 0, 2 * Math.PI);
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context.fill();
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context.closePath();
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}else if(this.shape == 'semi'){
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context.beginPath();
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context.arc(this.x, this.y, this.width/2, Math.PI, 0);
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context.fill();
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context.closePath();
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}else if (this.shape == 'rectangle'){
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context.fillRect(this.x, this.y, this.width, this.height);
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}
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context.fillStyle = defaultFillStyle; // Reset back to default
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}
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}</code></pre>
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<p>Pretty simple, I pass the shape I want to draw, x,y co-ordinates, width and height, and the fill. Not included above, but the class also accepts, and draws the shape stroke.</p>
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<p>I then call the draw method of the new Shape, and it sorts everything for me.</p>
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<h2>Interaction with Event Handlers</h2>
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<p>Next up, for the game to be a game and not just some visual media, we need to be able to interact with it.</p>
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<p>Basic interaction is simple enough, I threw in a 'click' EventListener, then take the event/click's X/Y position and subtract the canvas's offset from the HTML body (to have 0,0 set to the top-left of the canvas, and not the HTML page).</p>
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<p>This new X/Y, which I will just call X/Y is then compared to the X/Y locations of each shape. If the event X/Y occurs in a location greater (or equal) than the shape X/Y, and less than (or equal) Shape X/Y plus the shape Width/Height I then do whatever action I require.</p>
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<p>This is another thing I've simplified by creating a function:</p>
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<pre class="pre--small"><code>function clickableCheck(x,y,shape){
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if(
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y > shape.y && y < shape.y + shape.height
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&& x > shape.x && x < shape.x + shape.width)
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{
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return true;
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}
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return false;
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}</code></pre>
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<p>The function above is even simpler too, as all you need to do to check for a click, is pass a Shape object, created by the Shape class earlier in this post!</p>
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<p>Fun Fact! Shape here, is actually called clickable in my code-base, but I've changed it to make more sense without context.</p>
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