How to set mousemove update speed?

Question

im generating a function where it needs to set easy and fast a signature. I'm writing the signature in an canvas field. I use jQuery for it, but the refresh rate of mousemove coordinates is not fast enough. What happens is that if you write your signature to fast, you see some white spaces between writed pixels.

How can I set the refresh speed of the mousemove faster?

$("#xx").mousemove(function(e){

    ctx.fillRect(e.pageX - size, e.pageY - size, size, size);

    $("#pagex").html(e.pageX - size);
    $("#pagey").html(e.pageY - size);

}

Answer 1

You can't. The mousemove events are generated by the browser, and thus you are receiving them as fast as the browser is generating them.

The browser is not obliged to generate the events at any given rate (either by pixels moved, or by time elapsed): if you move the mouse quickly, you will see that a "jump" in coordinates is reported, as the browser is reporting "the mouse has moved, and it is now here", not "...and went through these pixels". In fact, a browser on a slow computer might generate fewer mousemove events, lest the page slow down to a crawl.

What you could do is to connect successive positions from mousemove events with a straight line - this will obviously not get you any more precision, but it may mitigate the impact.