I'm working on a Fabric JS project to map a floor with its rooms' locations.
At each room location I added an icon. I want to have a text box pop up (such as jquery tooltip) each time the mouse hover above the icon.
The text box should show room information (phone number \ person \ size \ etc.)
I found this google group post, but no one really described the solution beside sharing this link
Step 1: Set up your watchers
Step 2: Load the dialog
Step 3: Figure out where the bounding rect is on the page and move the dialog.
canvas.observe('mouse:over', function (e) {
console.log("Everyday I'm hovering");
showImageTools(e.target);
});
canvas.observe('mouse:out', function (e) {
$('#imageDialog').remove();
});
function showImageTools (e) {
var url = 'dialog/imageDialog.htm';
$.get(url, function(data) {
// Don't add it twice
if (!$('#imageDialog').length) {
$(body).append(data);
}
moveImageTools();
});
function moveImageTools () {
var w = $('#imageDialog').width();
var h = $('#imageDialog').height();
var e = canvas.getActiveObject();
var coords = getObjPosition(e);
// -1 because we want to be inside the selection body
var top = coords.bottom - h - 1;
var left = coords.right - w - 1;
$('#imageDialog').show();
$('#imageDialog').css({top: top, left: left});
}
function getObjPosition (e) {
// Get dimensions of object
var rect = e.getBoundingRect();
// We have the bounding box for rect... Now to get the canvas position
var offset = canvas.calcOffset();
// Do the math - offset is from $(body)
var bottom = offset._offset.top + rect.top + rect.height;
var right = offset._offset.left + rect.left + rect.width;
var left = offset._offset.left + rect.left;
var top = offset._offset.top + rect.top;
return {left: left, top: top, right: right, bottom: bottom};
}
That should be enough to get you started. Let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.