I would like to draw an image opened with the HTML5 File API on a canvas.
In the handleFiles(e)
method, I can access the File with e.target.files[0]
but I can't draw that image directly using drawImage
. How do I draw an image from the File API on HTML5 canvas?
Here is the code I have used:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
var input = document.getElementById('input');
input.addEventListener('change', handleFiles);
}
function handleFiles(e) {
var ctx = document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(e.target.files[0], 20,20);
alert('the image is drawn');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
<input type="file" id="input"/>
<canvas width="400" height="300" id="canvas"/>
</body>
</html>
You have a File
instance which is not an image.
To get an image, use new Image()
. The src
needs to be an URL referencing to the selected File
. You can use URL.createObjectURL
to get an URL referencing to a Blob
(a File
is also a Blob
): http://jsfiddle.net/t7mv6/86/.
var ctx = document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d');
var img = new Image;
img.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(img, 20,20);
alert('the image is drawn');
}
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(e.target.files[0]);
Note: be sure to revoke the object url when you are done with it otherwise you'll leak memory. If you're not doing anything too crazy, you can just stick a URL.revokeObjectURL(img.src)
in the img.onload
function.
References: