Fabric.js demos · Custom controls, render and actions

This demo shows how to start using the custom controls api. The first example shows how to write a custom render method for your control and how to define a custom action to run on the control mouseup. The new api offers the ability to run custom actions on:

And to run custom code for:

Creating the control

We create a new control and we add it to the object. To create a control we use new fabric.Control(options) In this case we want the corner to be near the top right classic control, so we give it a position of x of 0.5 which is the extreme right of the bounding box of the object. Same for y at -0.5. We do not want it to overlap with the current top right corner, so we add an offsetY with a positive number that will make it render a bit more down.

We want our control to render an icon rather than a fabric supported circle or square. So we have to provide our own render function to the control. The function is receiving the canvas context as first argument and so a simple drawImage will make it.

For the custom action we want simply to delete the object. We build a function following the mouseUpHandler signature and we use there canvas.remove(target);

  .controls {
  	display: inline-block;
  }
  

	var canvas = this.__canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
	// create a rect object
  var deleteIcon = "data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'%3F%3E%3C!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd'%3E%3Csvg version='1.1' id='Ebene_1' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' x='0px' y='0px' width='595.275px' height='595.275px' viewBox='200 215 230 470' xml:space='preserve'%3E%3Ccircle style='fill:%23F44336;' cx='299.76' cy='439.067' r='218.516'/%3E%3Cg%3E%3Crect x='267.162' y='307.978' transform='matrix(0.7071 -0.7071 0.7071 0.7071 -222.6202 340.6915)' style='fill:white;' width='65.545' height='262.18'/%3E%3Crect x='266.988' y='308.153' transform='matrix(0.7071 0.7071 -0.7071 0.7071 398.3889 -83.3116)' style='fill:white;' width='65.544' height='262.179'/%3E%3C/g%3E%3C/svg%3E";

  var img = document.createElement('img');
  img.src = deleteIcon;

  fabric.Object.prototype.transparentCorners = false;
  fabric.Object.prototype.cornerColor = 'blue';
  fabric.Object.prototype.cornerStyle = 'circle';

  function Add() {
    var rect = new fabric.Rect({
      left: 100,
      top: 50,
      fill: 'yellow',
      width: 200,
      height: 100,
      objectCaching: false,
      stroke: 'lightgreen',
      strokeWidth: 4,
    });

    canvas.add(rect);
    canvas.setActiveObject(rect);
  }

  fabric.Object.prototype.controls.deleteControl = new fabric.Control({
    x: 0.5,
    y: -0.5,
    offsetY: 16,
    cursorStyle: 'pointer',
    mouseUpHandler: deleteObject,
    render: renderIcon,
    cornerSize: 24
  });

  Add();

  function deleteObject(eventData, transform) {
		var target = transform.target;
		var canvas = target.canvas;
		    canvas.remove(target);
        canvas.requestRenderAll();
	}

  function renderIcon(ctx, left, top, styleOverride, fabricObject) {
    var size = this.cornerSize;
    ctx.save();
    ctx.translate(left, top);
    ctx.rotate(fabric.util.degreesToRadians(fabricObject.angle));
    ctx.drawImage(img, -size/2, -size/2, size, size);
    ctx.restore();
  }

Adding a clone control

Let’s add a new control to allow for quick duplication of the Object. We use again new fabric.Control(options) and we add it to a key named clone. When the objects are shrunk too much, corners with offset do not look great, so in this case let’s try to keep them outside the bounding box, on the top.

For the clone functionality we will simply do target.clone(function(cloned) { canvas.add(cloned) });

  .controls {
  	display: inline-block;
  }
  

	var canvas = this.__canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
	// create a rect object
  var deleteIcon = "data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'%3F%3E%3C!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd'%3E%3Csvg version='1.1' id='Ebene_1' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' x='0px' y='0px' width='595.275px' height='595.275px' viewBox='200 215 230 470' xml:space='preserve'%3E%3Ccircle style='fill:%23F44336;' cx='299.76' cy='439.067' r='218.516'/%3E%3Cg%3E%3Crect x='267.162' y='307.978' transform='matrix(0.7071 -0.7071 0.7071 0.7071 -222.6202 340.6915)' style='fill:white;' width='65.545' height='262.18'/%3E%3Crect x='266.988' y='308.153' transform='matrix(0.7071 0.7071 -0.7071 0.7071 398.3889 -83.3116)' style='fill:white;' width='65.544' height='262.179'/%3E%3C/g%3E%3C/svg%3E";

  var cloneIcon = "data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'%3F%3E%3Csvg version='1.1' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' viewBox='0 0 55.699 55.699' width='100px' height='100px' xml:space='preserve'%3E%3Cpath style='fill:%23010002;' d='M51.51,18.001c-0.006-0.085-0.022-0.167-0.05-0.248c-0.012-0.034-0.02-0.067-0.035-0.1 c-0.049-0.106-0.109-0.206-0.194-0.291v-0.001l0,0c0,0-0.001-0.001-0.001-0.002L34.161,0.293c-0.086-0.087-0.188-0.148-0.295-0.197 c-0.027-0.013-0.057-0.02-0.086-0.03c-0.086-0.029-0.174-0.048-0.265-0.053C33.494,0.011,33.475,0,33.453,0H22.177 c-3.678,0-6.669,2.992-6.669,6.67v1.674h-4.663c-3.678,0-6.67,2.992-6.67,6.67V49.03c0,3.678,2.992,6.669,6.67,6.669h22.677 c3.677,0,6.669-2.991,6.669-6.669v-1.675h4.664c3.678,0,6.669-2.991,6.669-6.669V18.069C51.524,18.045,51.512,18.025,51.51,18.001z M34.454,3.414l13.655,13.655h-8.985c-2.575,0-4.67-2.095-4.67-4.67V3.414z M38.191,49.029c0,2.574-2.095,4.669-4.669,4.669H10.845 c-2.575,0-4.67-2.095-4.67-4.669V15.014c0-2.575,2.095-4.67,4.67-4.67h5.663h4.614v10.399c0,3.678,2.991,6.669,6.668,6.669h10.4 v18.942L38.191,49.029L38.191,49.029z M36.777,25.412h-8.986c-2.574,0-4.668-2.094-4.668-4.669v-8.985L36.777,25.412z M44.855,45.355h-4.664V26.412c0-0.023-0.012-0.044-0.014-0.067c-0.006-0.085-0.021-0.167-0.049-0.249 c-0.012-0.033-0.021-0.066-0.036-0.1c-0.048-0.105-0.109-0.205-0.194-0.29l0,0l0,0c0-0.001-0.001-0.002-0.001-0.002L22.829,8.637 c-0.087-0.086-0.188-0.147-0.295-0.196c-0.029-0.013-0.058-0.021-0.088-0.031c-0.086-0.03-0.172-0.048-0.263-0.053 c-0.021-0.002-0.04-0.013-0.062-0.013h-4.614V6.67c0-2.575,2.095-4.67,4.669-4.67h10.277v10.4c0,3.678,2.992,6.67,6.67,6.67h10.399 v21.616C49.524,43.26,47.429,45.355,44.855,45.355z'/%3E%3C/svg%3E%0A"

  var deleteImg = document.createElement('img');
  deleteImg.src = deleteIcon;

  var cloneImg = document.createElement('img');
  cloneImg.src = cloneIcon;

  fabric.Object.prototype.transparentCorners = false;
  fabric.Object.prototype.cornerColor = 'blue';
  fabric.Object.prototype.cornerStyle = 'circle';

  function Add() {
    var rect = new fabric.Rect({
      left: 100,
      top: 50,
      fill: 'yellow',
      width: 200,
      height: 100,
      objectCaching: false,
      stroke: 'lightgreen',
      strokeWidth: 4,
    });

    canvas.add(rect);
    canvas.setActiveObject(rect);
  }

  function renderIcon(icon) {
    return function renderIcon(ctx, left, top, styleOverride, fabricObject) {
      var size = this.cornerSize;
      ctx.save();
      ctx.translate(left, top);
      ctx.rotate(fabric.util.degreesToRadians(fabricObject.angle));
      ctx.drawImage(icon, -size/2, -size/2, size, size);
      ctx.restore();
    }
  }

  fabric.Object.prototype.controls.deleteControl = new fabric.Control({
    x: 0.5,
    y: -0.5,
    offsetY: -16,
    offsetX: 16,
    cursorStyle: 'pointer',
    mouseUpHandler: deleteObject,
    render: renderIcon(deleteImg),
    cornerSize: 24
  });

  fabric.Object.prototype.controls.clone = new fabric.Control({
    x: -0.5,
    y: -0.5,
    offsetY: -16,
    offsetX: -16,
    cursorStyle: 'pointer',
    mouseUpHandler: cloneObject,
    render: renderIcon(cloneImg),
    cornerSize: 24
  });

  Add();

  function deleteObject(eventData, transform) {
                var target = transform.target;
		var canvas = target.canvas;
		    canvas.remove(target);
        canvas.requestRenderAll();
	}

  function cloneObject(eventData, transform) {
    var target = transform.target;
    var canvas = target.canvas;
    target.clone(function(cloned) {
      cloned.left += 10;
      cloned.top += 10;
      canvas.add(cloned);
    });
  }