How To Trigger Mouse:over Event After A Certain Interval Using Fabricjs?

I want to trigger the mouse:over event only when the user hovers over an elements for more than a specific set interval (for example 200ms). Currently I have used this example for

Solution 1:

In your case I think you can use setTimeout function inside the mouse:over handler. This way you can put some delay before executing the code.

So what I did:

1) Use setTimeout inside mouse:over handler

2) save reference to the started timeout in var timeout;

3) use clearTimeout on timeout variable in mouse:out handler to prevent the code in mouse:over been executed if mouse is out before the delay is fully completed

(function() {
  var canvas = this.__canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
  fabric.Object.prototype.transparentCorners = false;
  
  var timeout;
  canvas.on('mouse:over', function(e) {
    if(!e.target) returnfalse;
    
    timeout = setTimeout(function(){
      e.target.setFill('red');
      canvas.renderAll();
    }, 1000)
  });

  canvas.on('mouse:out', function(e) {
    if(!e.target) returnfalse;
    
    /* clear the timeout so we make sure that mouse:over code will not execute if delay is not completed */clearTimeout(timeout);
    
    e.target.setFill('green');
    canvas.renderAll();
  });

  // add random objectsfor (var i = 15; i--; ) {
    var dim = fabric.util.getRandomInt(30, 60);
    var klass = ['Rect', 'Triangle', 'Circle'][fabric.util.getRandomInt(0,2)];
    var options = {
      top: fabric.util.getRandomInt(0, 300),
      left: fabric.util.getRandomInt(0, 300),
      fill: 'green'
    };
    if (klass === 'Circle') {
      options.radius = dim;
    }
    else {
      options.width = dim;
      options.height = dim;
    }
    canvas.add(new fabric[klass](options));
  }
})();

<scriptsrc="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/1.7.16/fabric.js"></script><canvasid="c"width="300"height="300"></canvas>

The current timeout that I'm using in this code snippet is 1000 milliseconds = 1 second. You can adjust this in the setTimeout function. I hope this was helpful for you, let me know if something is unclear.