To Know if canvas is empty

[dsicom]

I need to force at the user to paint something in wPaint. Are there any manner to check if the canvas is empty or not? Thanks

[abrenoch]

Check out: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/getImageData

This will return an array of all the pixels in rgba value, you could potentially loop over every integer in that array and if they all are 0 then it would be reasonable to assume the canvas is blank.

[rb1515]

I store the empty canvas on init and later compare the current sta with the empty one:

// on init
emptyImage = wPaintCanvas.toDataURL();
// later
if(wPaintCanvas.toDataURL() === emptyImage) {