Draw Shapes with DCE JS

In version 4.0.0 of DCE-JS, we introduced multiple APIs for drawing basic shapes on the built-in UI. This article will dive into how it works.

We will start with the following code which defines a page that has a CameraEnhancer instance embedded:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>DCEJS - Draw Shapes</title>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dynamsoft-camera-enhancer/dist/dce.js"></script>
</head>
<body style="width:80vw; height:600px; margin: 0 auto">
    <br />
    <button id="drawShapes">Click to Draw Shapes</button><br /><br />
    <div id="enhancerUIContainer" style="width:100%; height:100%;"></div>
    <script>
      let cameraEnhancer = null;
      let view = null;
      document.getElementById('drawShapes').onclick = drawShapes;
      (async () => {
          view = await Dynamsoft.DCE.CameraView.createInstance();
          cameraEnhancer = await Dynamsoft.DCE.CameraEnhancer.createInstance(view);
          document.getElementById("enhancerUIContainer").appendChild(view.getUIElement());
          await cameraEnhancer.open();
      })();
        function drawShapes(){}
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Add a DrawingLayer

All shapes are drawn on specific DrawingLayers. The first step in drawing a shape is to create a DrawingLayer.

function drawShapes(){
  let drawingLayer = cameraEnhancer.createDrawingLayer();
}

Define DrawingItems

An DrawingItem is the basic shape that can be drawn. The SDK classify DrawingItems in different types: LineDrawingItem, RectDrawingItem, QuadDrawingItem, TextDrawingItem, and ImageDrawingItem. The SDK also allow multiple items to be joined together and form the type called GroupDrawingItem.

The following code shows how to define these types of DrawingItems:

let drawingLayer = view.createDrawingLayer();
let rect = new Dynamsoft.DCE.RectDrawingItem({x: 100,y: 100,width: 300,height: 300});
let line = new Dynamsoft.DCE.LineDrawingItem({startPoint:{x: 600, y: 600}, endPoint:{x: 1050, y: 400}});
let text = new Dynamsoft.DCE.TextDrawingItem("TESTING...",{x: 20,y: 20,width: 100,height: 100});
let quad = new Dynamsoft.DCE.QuadDrawingItem({points:[{x:600,y:100},{x:500,y:300},{x:700,y:300},{x:700,y:100}]});
let img = new Dynamsoft.DCE.ImageDrawingItem(document.getElementById('testIMG'),{x: 200,y: 200,width: 300,height: 300},true);

NOTE:

document.getElementById('testIMG') is an image on the page defined in an HTMLImageElement.

Draw these DrawingItems

After DrawingItems have been defined, simply call addDrawingItems() to draw them on the DrawingLayer we created earlier:

function drawShapes(){
  let drawingLayer = view.createDrawingLayer();
  let rect = new Dynamsoft.DCE.RectDrawingItem({x: 100,y: 100,width: 300,height: 300});
  let line = new Dynamsoft.DCE.LineDrawingItem({startPoint:{x: 600, y: 600}, endPoint:{x: 1050, y: 400}});
  let text = new Dynamsoft.DCE.TextDrawingItem("TESTING...",{x: 20,y: 20,width: 100,height: 100});
  let quad = new Dynamsoft.DCE.QuadDrawingItem({points:[{x:600,y:100},{x:500,y:300},{x:700,y:300},{x:700,y:100}]});
  let img = new Dynamsoft.DCE..ImageDrawingItem(document.getElementById('testIMG'),{x: 200,y: 200,width: 300,height: 300},true);
  drawingLayer.addDrawingItems([rect,line,text,quad,img]);
}

Define the DrawingStyle

All new DrawingLayer objects come with the same predefined style definition

{
  id:4,
  fillStyle: "rgba(245, 236, 73, 0.3)",
  fontFamily: "sans-serif",
  fontSize: 10,
  lineWidth: 2,
  paintMode: "stroke",
  strokeStyle: "rgba(245, 236, 73, 1)"
}

If the default style doesn’t look good, you can create your own style to use:

let StyleID = Dynamsoft.DCE.DrawingStyleManager.createDrawingStyle({
  fillStyle: "rgba(65, 105, 225, 0.5)",
  fontFamily: "Consolas",
  fontSize: 100,
  lineWidth: 5,
  paintMode: "strokeAndFill",
  strokeStyle: "rgba(65, 105, 225, 1)"
  
});
// take new drawing style ID as input parameter
drawingLayer.setDefaultStyle(StyleID);

Set multiple DrawingStyles

For each DrawingLayer, DrawingStyles can be used in three ways

Use the same DrawingStyle for everything;
Use a specific DrawingStyle for a specific type of DrawingItems;
Use a specific DrawingStyle for a specific type of DrawingItems which are in a particular state.

As of version 4.0.0, the only available states for a DrawingStyle are “default” and “selected”.

The following shows how to do the different settings with the method setDefaultStyle:

// The following code assumes we have defined 3 different DrawingStyles with IDs 100, 101 and 102.
// Use DrawingLayer 100 for everything
drawingLayer.setDefaultStyle(100);
// Use DrawingLayer 101 for all selected drawingStyles.
drawingLayer.setDefaultStyle(101, "selected");
// Use DrawingLayer 102 for selected "rect"s
drawingLayer.setDefaultStyle(102, "selected", "rect");

Try it out

You can try the shape drawing feature on the following link:

Draw Shapes with DCEJS