In a Nutshell

This widget adds consistent cross-browser support for the famous HTML Canvas to the Google Web Toolkit.

gwt-canvas Demo

To see gwt-canvas in action check out this interactive demo and/or this MasterMind game.

If you haven't heard about the canvas yet, learn more at Mozilla's tutorial (covers only native Canvas usage).

Using gwt-canvas in your Project

Just add gwt-canvas-<version>.jar to your Build Path, and add the following line to your GWT XML Module:

<inherits name='gwt.canvas.gwt-canvas'/>

Now import, create and add a canvas widget to your code and you are ready to go:

RootPanel.get().add(new Canvas());

Please note that GWT 1.5 or higher is mandatory for using gwt-canvas!

Browser Compatibility

The gwt-canvas widget has been successfully tested on these browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6.0+
• Firefox 1.5+
• Opera 9.0+
• Safari 3.0+
• Chrome 2.0+

Feedback

If you have a question or just want to give some feedback, please use the discussion group.