In support of multiple cropping widgets on the same page, I’ve had a couple requests for Jcrop to return an identifier of the image being cropped, when callback functions are called. On this point, I’d like to suggest a small but flexible workaround. I think it may illustrate an interesting pattern of Javascript at the same time.
I needed to draw an arrowhead to show the direction of lines drawn on the canvas. When I searched for this I didn’t find any complete solutions, so I wanted to share mine. Includes useful canvas routines to translate and rotate a data structure representing the polygon coordinates.
Back after a really busy week with a short article on drawing with the Javascript canvas object. This article describes my first foray into drawing in the browser, with some simple example code. What I’ve learned: canvas drawing presents some interesting interface possibilities that bear more investigation…
Wow! 700 downloads and counting! I am not sure what I expected in 1.5 weeks, but it’s been beyond my optimistic expectations. Thanks so much to everyone who has come to check out Jcrop, the numbers are very encouraging.
Appendo is a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a button interface to add and remove rows for use in forms where multiple rows of input may be entered. It may also serve as an example of simple jQuery plugin design. Prompted by a real-life scenario. Go jQuery!
I’ve just released my first jQuery plugin. Announcing Jcrop - the image cropping plugin for jQuery. Jcrop allows developers to easily implement a cross-platform image crop tool into web applications. Features a graphical interface that faithfully reproduces the look and feel of familiar desktop applications.
