I am in the process of learning javascript for game design, and wanted to make a separate achievement page that the user can navigate to that will allow them to check their achievements on various games. (at the moment I am not concerned with implementing localstorage/cookies etc, I just want to work on the page for now)
So the requirements of my base idea is as follows:
- Able to drag around the viewport/page to view all the achievement categories as they will likely not all be in view on smaller screens
- Able to click on a category to open a small box containing all achievements belonging to that game/category
- Able to mouse over all achievements in the boxes to get text descriptions of what they are
- OPTIONAL: have lines connecting each box on the "overworld" to show users where nearby boxes are if they are off screen
At first, I thought I would need canvas to be able to do this. I learned a bit about it and got decently far until I realized that canvas has a lot of restrictions like not being able to do mouseover events unless manually implementing each one. Here is the current progress I was at in doing a test-run of learning canvas, but it's not very far:
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
function resize()
{
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
ctx.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
ctx.translate(panning.offset.x, panning.offset.y);
draw();
}
window.addEventListener("resize", resize);
var global = {
scale : 1,
offset : {
x : 0,
y : 0,
},
};
var panning = {
start : {
x : null,
y : null,
},
offset : {
x : 0,
y : 0,
},
};
var canvasCenterWidth = (canvas.width / 2);
var canvasCenterHeight = (canvas.height / 2);
function draw() {
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.rect(canvasCenterWidth, canvasCenterHeight, 100, 100);
ctx.fillStyle = 'blue';
ctx.fill();
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(350, 250, 50, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
ctx.fillStyle = 'red';
ctx.fill();
}
draw();
canvas.addEventListener("mousedown", startPan);
function pan() {
ctx.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
ctx.translate(panning.offset.x, panning.offset.y);
draw();
}
function startPan(e) {
window.addEventListener("mousemove", trackMouse);
window.addEventListener("mousemove", pan);
window.addEventListener("mouseup", endPan);
panning.start.x = e.clientX;
panning.start.y = e.clientY;
}
function endPan(e) {
window.removeEventListener("mousemove", trackMouse);
window.removeEventListener("mousemove", pan);
window.removeEventListener("mouseup", endPan);
panning.start.x = null;
panning.start.y = null;
global.offset.x = panning.offset.x;
global.offset.y = panning.offset.y;
}
function trackMouse(e) {
var offsetX = e.clientX - panning.start.x;
var offsetY = e.clientY - panning.start.y;
panning.offset.x = global.offset.x + offsetX;
panning.offset.y = global.offset.y + offsetY;
}body{
overflow: hidden;
}
canvas {
top: 0;
left: 0;
position: absolute; }<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>So I guess my question is now: what is the best way to implement this? Is it feasable to do it with canvas, or should I just scrap that and try to figure out something with div movement? Should I be concerned with performance issues and should that affect how I implement it?
