Unable to select or move other shapes(when drawing free hand line)

[OilPrince]

Hello, everyone! Thank you for your efforts.

I'm trying to draw a free line on the canvas with the mouse as follows:

canvas.selection = true;

canvas.isDrawingMode = true;

canvas.freeDrawingBrush.color = 'red'; canvas.freeDrawingBrush.width = 3;

canvas.on({'path:created': (event) => { event.path.selectable = true; event.path.id = generateId('FreeLine'); canvas.setActiveObject(event.path); } });

When I try to select another drawn line after some line is drawn, the line is not selected and another line is drawn after mouse move. Of cource, I know that I can select the drawn line when I try that canvas.isDrawingMode = false; and canvas.selection = true;. But I want to continue to draw other free lines without clicking the new button that changes the draw mode(canvas.isDrawingMode = true; and canvas.selection = true;)

When I draw another shape (rectangle, circle, and straight line, ...), I check that when I move the mouse to some drawn shape, the mouse cursor changes to a movable cursor on that shape, and that shape is selected after mouse click! The selected shape has been moved or size modified by mouse control.

How can I choose a different shape and move it when I draw a free line?

I need your help.

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[asturur]

i'm sorry but diring freeDrawing you can't select shapes. You can try to use the event mousedown:before in order to disable the freedrawing and the reenable it on mouseup.

[OilPrince]

Thank you for your response. Your answer has created a way for me to do something.

• check whether there's another shape on the position when I click the mouse
• if there exists some shape in that position, stop draw a line
• i choose that shape when the mouse up event occurs.

There will be performance issues if there are more shapes, but it won't be a big problem to me!

Thank you for the information.

[asturur]

the perforance issues aren't really there, and anyway, finding the objects is quick, it can be a bit slow with 2000+ objects but being onclick and not on mouse move, i do not think you will notice it