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Patrick Seamars
7,574 PointsAdding an "Erase" button to Simple Drawing App - How-To
I've been looking around to find a way to add a button to my Simple Drawing App project in the jQuery Basics course, to no avail. I tried a little bit on my own, but all I could do was append a button to the end of the div containing the canvas.
Where do I go next?
I appreciate your time.
2 Answers
Hugo Paz
15,622 PointsMy suggestion would be to create a button with the color of the canvas. Then use a slider to set the line width, the size of the eraser if you like. You can set it like this context.lineWidth = x;, where x is the value on the slider.
Anthony Ho
10,228 PointsHow do I get different brush textures other than lineWidth? Would I have to download a plugin?