HTML5 Canvas Drag and Drop Tutorial

To drag and drop shapes with KineticJS, we can set the draggable property to true when we instantiate a shape, or we can use the setDraggable() method. The setDraggable() method enables drag and drop for both desktop and mobile applications automatically.

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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <style>
      body {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px;
      }
    </style>
    <script src="http://d3lp1msu2r81bx.cloudfront.net/kjs/js/lib/kinetic-v4.5.1.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="container"></div>
    <script defer="defer">
      var stage = new Kinetic.Stage({
        container: 'container',
        width: 578,
        height: 200
      });
      var layer = new Kinetic.Layer();
      var rectX = stage.getWidth() / 2 - 50;
      var rectY = stage.getHeight() / 2 - 25;

var box = new Kinetic.Rect({
        x: rectX,
        y: rectY,
        width: 100,
        height: 50,
        fill: '#00D2FF',
        stroke: 'black',
        strokeWidth: 4,
        draggable: true
      });

// add cursor styling
      box.on('mouseover', function() {
        document.body.style.cursor = 'pointer';
      });
      box.on('mouseout', function() {
        document.body.style.cursor = 'default';
      });

layer.add(box);
      stage.add(layer);
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

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Modified on April 9th, 2013 by Eric Rowell