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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Drawing Application Perfect

Ali Amirazizi
Ali Amirazizi
16,087 Points

App won't work for me in Chrome.

I've followed along the videos but I can't figure out why the app won't work. The toggle won't work and the dev tools say something is wrong on line 47. Please help.

var color = $(".selected").css("background-color");
var $canvas = $("canvas");
var context = $canvas[0].getContext("2d");
var lastEvent;
var mouseDown = false;

//when clicking on control list items
$(".controls").on("click", "li", function(){
  //deselect sibling elements
  $(this).siblings().removeClass("selected");
  //select clicked element
  $(this).addClass("selected");
  //cache current color
  color = $(this).css("background-color");
});

//when new-color is pressed
$("revealColorSelect").click(function(){
  //show or hide the color select
  changeColor();
  $("#colorSelect").toggle();
}); 

//update the new color span
function changeColor() {
  var r = $("#red").val();
  var g = $("#green").val();
  var b = $("#blue").val();
  $("#newColor").css("background-color", "rgb(" + r + "," + g + ", " + b + ")");
}

//when color sliders change
$("input[type=range]").change(changeColor);

//when "Add color" is pressed
$("#addNewColor").click(function(){
  //append the color to the control's ul
  var $newColor = $("<></li>");
  $newColor.css("background-color", $(newColor).css("background-color"));
  $(".controls ul").append($newColor);
  //select the new color
  $newColor.click();
});

//on mouse events on the canvas
$canvas.mousedown(function(){
  lastEvent = e;
  mouseDown = true;
}).mousemove(function(){
  //draw lines
  if (mouseDown) {
    context.beginPath();
    context.moveTo(lastEvent.offsetX, lastEvent.offsetY);
    context.lineTo(e.offsetX, e.offsetY);
    context.strokeStyle = color;
    context.stroke();
    lastEvent = e;
   }  
}).mouseup(function(){
  mouseDown = false;
}).mouseleave(function(){
  $canvas.mouseup();
});

1 Answer

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

On line 46 you are missing "e"

Your line 46 looks like this:

$canvas.mousedown(function(){

It should look like this:

$canvas.mousedown(function(e){