Simple way to track mouse coordinates while moving over HTML5 canvas

Question

Is there a simple way to get relative mouse coordinates while moving mouse over HTML5 canvas?

I found this:

function getMousePos(canvas, evt){
    // get canvas position
    var obj = canvas;
    var top = 0;
    var left = 0;
    while (obj && obj.tagName != 'BODY') {
        top += obj.offsetTop;
        left += obj.offsetLeft;
        obj = obj.offsetParent;
    }

    // return relative mouse position
    var mouseX = evt.clientX - left + window.pageXOffset;
    var mouseY = evt.clientY - top + window.pageYOffset;
    return {
        x: mouseX,
        y: mouseY
    };
}

But it seems too heavy to me. Is there a reason using frameworks (like Kinetic) when working with canvas to simplify such things?

Answer 1

If you're not using your mousemove on your canvas use this:

$(function () { 
canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
canvas.onmousemove = mousePos;
 });

function mousePos(e) {
    if (e.offsetX) {
        mouseX = e.offsetX;
        mouseY = e.offsetY;
    }
    else if (e.layerX) {
        mouseX = e.layerX;
        mouseY = e.layerY;
    }
}

Answer 2

You could position canvas absolutely and then remove while loop.

Ultimately, if canvas would not move, you could cache it's offset and then use cached value.

And to cover all cases: if canvas would have fixed position, you'll need not consider scrolling: pageXOffset , pageYOffset .