nateshmbhat / touchable

Flutter library to add gestures and animations to each Shape you draw on your canvas in your CustomPainter

Flutter library to bring your CustomPainter 🎨 to Life ✨⚡️

touchable library gives you the ability to add various gestures and animations to each Shape you draw on your canvas in the CustomPainter

           

Index :

• Why Use Touchable ?
• Installation
• Usage
• How it works
• Road Map 🗺
• Links

Why Use Touchable ?

• The CustomPainter lets you only draw shapes on the canvas. But most would want to let user interact with the drawings.

• Add all kinds of gesture callbacks to each drawing to give interaction capability to the shapes you draw on the canvas.

• Animating individual shapes has never been this easy.

• Auto Handles the painting style (filled ▮ , stroke ▯) and detects touch accordingly.

• Handles Painting stroke width. So if your shapes are painted thick , we still got it covered ✓

• Supports clipping and different clipping modes for the drawings.

• Supports HitTestBehavior for each shape.

• Simple and Easy API. Just wrap your CustomPaint with CanvasTouchDetector and use the TouchyCanvas in your painter.

With touchable , you get what the normal canvas always missed : touchability 😉

Installation

Add the touchable package as dependency in your pubspec.yaml

dependencies:
  touchable:

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Usage

• Just Wrap your CustomPaint widget with CanvasTouchDetector. It takes a builder function as argument that expects your CustomPaint widget as shown below.

CanvasTouchDetector(
    builder: (context) => 
        CustomPaint(
            painter: MyPainter(context)
        )
)

• Inside your CustomPainter class's paint method , create and use the TouchyCanvas object (using the context obtained from the CanvasTouchDetector and canvas) to draw any shape with different gesture callbacks.

var myCanvas = TouchyCanvas(context,canvas);
myCanvas.drawRect( rect , Paint() , onTapDown: (tapDetail){
    //Do stuff here. Probably change your state and animate
});

MyPainter example :

class MyPainter extends CustomPainter {

  final BuildContext context ;
  MyPainter(this.context); // context from CanvasTouchDetector

  @override
  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
    var myCanvas = TouchyCanvas(context,canvas); 

    myCanvas.drawCircle(Offset(10, 10), 60, Paint()..color=Colors.orange ,
        onTapDown: (tapdetail) {
         print("orange Circle touched");
       },
        onPanDown:(tapdetail){
          print("orange circle swiped");
        } 
    );

    myCanvas.drawLine(
        Offset(0, 0),
        Offset(size.width - 100, size.height - 100),
        Paint()
          ..color = Colors.black
          ..strokeWidth = 50, 
        onPanUpdate: (detail) {
            print('Black line Swiped'); //do cooler things here. Probably change app state or animate
    });
  }
}

Read the article on Medium : Bring Your CustomPainter to Life using Touchable

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How Touchable Works

When you draw shapes on the canvas (TouchyCanvas) , it keeps track of the dimensions of each shape you draw and their painting style , stroke , order , clippings etc.

When user performs any gesture on the screen , based on the location of the gesture , the appropriate shape is selected from the lot taking clipping regions , paint , hitTest behaviour etc into account in an optimized way. Callbacks of the corresponding shapes (one or more depending on the hitTest behavior) are executed.

Road Map

• Basic Shape Detection
  • Line
  • Rectangle (Rect)
  • Circle
  • Oval or Ellipse
  • Arc
    • segment
    • sector
  • Rounded Rectangle (RRect)
  • Custom Path [only supports opaque hittest]
  • Points (PointMode.points , PointMode.lines , PointMode.polygon)
  • Vertices
    • Traingle
    • Traingle Strip
    • Traingle Fan
• Support for proper edge detection based on the Paint object properties :
  • Paint style
  • Stroke Width
  • Stroke Cap
    • StrokeCap to draw Points
    • StrokeCap.round for lines with huge width.
• Support Clipping and clipping modes
  • ClipRect
    • intersect mode [Touch detection enabled only inside the clipped region]
    • difference mode [Touch detection enabled only outside the clipped region]
  • ClipRRect
  • ClipPath
• Support for HitTestBehavior
• Make the touch detection handling to run in a seperate isolate.
• Support for translation , rotation , scaling and skewing transformations that needs some vector math

Links

• Touchable Docs
• Pub Dev
• Other Dart/Flutter Packages
• HomePage
• My Github Page