{"id":7279,"date":"2014-04-27T05:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T19:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2014-04-27T05:05:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T19:05:50","slug":"htmljavascript-canvas-polygon-areas-game-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/htmljavascript-canvas-polygon-areas-game-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML\/Javascript Canvas Polygon Areas Game Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/polygon_chalkboard.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"HTML\/Javascript Canvas Polygon Areas Game Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/polygon_chalkboard.jpg\" title=\"HTML\/Javascript Canvas Polygon Areas Game Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HTML\/Javascript Canvas Polygon Areas Game Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s tutorial we touch on the functionality to plot a polygon on the canvas via beginPath(), moveTo(), lineTo(), fillStyle() and fill() methods and to draw text via strokeText() method.   In the case of this tutorial that plotting contributes to the user answering some mathematical trigonometrical questions regarding <a target=_blank title='Polygon area calculations (in maths)' href='http:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/geometry\/area-irregular-polygons.html'>Polygon area calculations<\/a> on a simulated <i>&#8220;chalkboard&#8221;<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to read more at <a target=_blank title='HTML Canvas Reference' href='http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/tags\/ref_canvas.asp'>HTML Canvas Reference<\/a> as a generic reference, or here, at the tutorial <a target=_blank title='javascript - How do I add a simple onClick event handler to a canvas element? - Stack Overflow' href='http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/9880279\/how-do-i-add-a-simple-onclick-event-handler-to-a-canvas-element'>javascript &#8211; How do I add a simple onClick event handler to a canvas element? &#8211; Stack Overflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, this HTML canvas element, new to HTML5, can be very useful for some practical client-side web functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Link to some downloadable HTML programming code &#8230; rename to <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/polygon_chalkboard.html_GETME' title='polygon_chalkboard.html'>polygon_chalkboard.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice heavy use of the Javascript <a target=_blank title='Javascript Math.random() information from w3schools' href='http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/jsref\/jsref_random.asp'>Math.random()<\/a> function.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy this tutorial as a <a target=_blank title='Canvas HTML element live run tutorial'  href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/polygon_chalkboard.html\">live run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8230; you&#8217;ve reached the end &#8230; hope you have a good time practising your mathematical trigonometrical knowledge of Polygon area calculationss (there is advice, if you want to learn &#8230; you can get it when you give an incorrect answer)!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d7279' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d7279\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=canvas\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d7279' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management. 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