Author Archives: VanquishedWombat

Konva – Star rating control

Someone on Discord asked it it was possible to make a star rating widget thing with Konva – the holes in the stars sounded like an interesting challenge. Here we go… TLDR: See the demo and code. This is a Vanilla JS solution, but @ivor adapted it for React here. The key technique for makingContinue reading “Konva – Star rating control”

Konva – editing path points

I wondered how to edit the points on a path or line – here’s an answer. Both the Konva Line and Path use a list of points to draw themselves. The Line takes a simple array of x & y values whilst the Path wants a data definition composed of SVG drawing commands. I choseContinue reading “Konva – editing path points”

Konva – What the hell did the Transformer actually do to my shape?

So what, you grabbed a transformer handle and stretched the rectangle and now you don’t understand what gives with the width and height – they didn’t change? You can see the freekin size changed but why are the width & height the same as before? Huh ? Stop the world, I wanna get off. Ok, lets talk about it.

Konva – handy trick to apply opacity to rect fill but leave stroke unchanged

Ever needed to have a rect with alpha applied to the fill bit not the stroke – here’s how! Before I found this excellent example that Anton mentioned in an old Github issue, I would have solved this challenge with multiple rects – one for the stroke and one for the fill. But this simple solution needs only one rect.

Konva – text with block background

Giving text a block color background with margin and padding is catered for well in CSS but not so easy in Konva where there is nothing as capable as CSS built-in. Here’s some code to give you that feature. TLDR: Here’s the demo CodePen… I should mention that Konva provides the ‘textBackgroundColor’ attribute, but thisContinue reading “Konva – text with block background”