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Interface OffscreenCanvas

When using the element or the Canvas API, rendering, animation, and user interaction usually happen on the main execution thread of a web application. The computation relating to canvas animations and rendering can have a significant impact on application performance.

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interface OffscreenCanvas {
    height: number;
    oncontextlost: ((this: OffscreenCanvas, ev: Event) => any) | null;
    oncontextrestored: ((this: OffscreenCanvas, ev: Event) => any) | null;
    width: number;
    addEventListener<K extends keyof OffscreenCanvasEventMap>(
        type: K,
        listener: (this: OffscreenCanvas, ev: OffscreenCanvasEventMap[K]) => any,
        options?: boolean | AddEventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    addEventListener(
        type: string,
        listener: EventListenerOrEventListenerObject,
        options?: boolean | AddEventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    convertToBlob(options?: ImageEncodeOptions): Promise<Blob>;
    dispatchEvent(event: Event): boolean;
    getContext(
        contextId: "2d",
        options?: any,
    ): OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D | null;
    getContext(
        contextId: "bitmaprenderer",
        options?: any,
    ): ImageBitmapRenderingContext | null;
    getContext(contextId: "webgl", options?: any): WebGLRenderingContext | null;
    getContext(
        contextId: "webgl2",
        options?: any,
    ): WebGL2RenderingContext | null;
    getContext(
        contextId: OffscreenRenderingContextId,
        options?: any,
    ): OffscreenRenderingContext | null;
    removeEventListener<K extends keyof OffscreenCanvasEventMap>(
        type: K,
        listener: (this: OffscreenCanvas, ev: OffscreenCanvasEventMap[K]) => any,
        options?: boolean | EventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    removeEventListener(
        type: string,
        listener: EventListenerOrEventListenerObject,
        options?: boolean | EventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    transferToImageBitmap(): ImageBitmap;
}

Hierarchy

  • EventTarget
    • OffscreenCanvas
Index
height: number

The height property returns and sets the height of an OffscreenCanvas object.

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oncontextlost: ((this: OffscreenCanvas, ev: Event) => any) | null
oncontextrestored: ((this: OffscreenCanvas, ev: Event) => any) | null
width: number

The width property returns and sets the width of an OffscreenCanvas object.

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  • The addEventListener() method of the EventTarget interface sets up a function that will be called whenever the specified event is delivered to the target.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • The addEventListener() method of the EventTarget interface sets up a function that will be called whenever the specified event is delivered to the target.

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    Parameters

    Returns void

  • The OffscreenCanvas.convertToBlob() method creates a Blob object representing the image contained in the canvas.

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    Parameters

    Returns Promise<Blob>

  • The dispatchEvent() method of the EventTarget sends an Event to the object, (synchronously) invoking the affected event listeners in the appropriate order. The normal event processing rules (including the capturing and optional bubbling phase) also apply to events dispatched manually with dispatchEvent().

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    Parameters

    • event: Event

    Returns boolean

  • The removeEventListener() method of the EventTarget interface removes an event listener previously registered with EventTarget.addEventListener() from the target. The event listener to be removed is identified using a combination of the event type, the event listener function itself, and various optional options that may affect the matching process; see Matching event listeners for removal.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • The removeEventListener() method of the EventTarget interface removes an event listener previously registered with EventTarget.addEventListener() from the target. The event listener to be removed is identified using a combination of the event type, the event listener function itself, and various optional options that may affect the matching process; see Matching event listeners for removal.

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    Parameters

    Returns void

  • The OffscreenCanvas.transferToImageBitmap() method creates an ImageBitmap object from the most recently rendered image of the OffscreenCanvas. The OffscreenCanvas allocates a new image for its subsequent rendering.

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    Returns ImageBitmap

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