feat(IText): expose getCursorRenderingData() function.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## [next]
 
+- feat(IText): expose getCursorRenderingData() function. [#10204](https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/pull/10204)
 - fix(Canvas): allowTouchScrolling interactions [#10078](https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/pull/10078)
 - update(IText): Add method enterEditingImpl/exitEditingImpl that executes the logic of enterEditing/exitEditing without events [#10187](https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/issues/10187)
 - fix(FabricObject): Fix clipPath blurryness with scale [#9774](https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/pull/9774)

fabric.ts

@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ export {
 export type {
   ITextProps,
   SerializedITextProps,
+  CursorRenderingData,
+  CursorBoundaries,
 } from './src/shapes/IText/IText';
 export { IText } from './src/shapes/IText/IText';
 export type {

src/shapes/IText/IText.ts

@@ -19,13 +19,22 @@ import {
 import { CENTER, FILL, LEFT, RIGHT } from '../../constants';
 import type { ObjectToCanvasElementOptions } from '../Object/Object';
 
-type CursorBoundaries = {
+export type CursorBoundaries = {
   left: number;
   top: number;
   leftOffset: number;
   topOffset: number;
 };
 
+export type CursorRenderingData = {
+  color: string;
+  opacity: number;
+  left: number;
+  top: number;
+  width: number;
+  height: number;
+};
+
 // Declare IText protected properties to workaround TS
 const protectedDefaultValues = {
   _selectionDirection: null,
@@ -380,7 +389,7 @@ export class IText<
       return;
     }
     const boundaries = this._getCursorBoundaries();
-    if (this.selectionStart === this.selectionEnd) {
+    if (this.selectionStart === this.selectionEnd && !this.inCompositionMode) {
       this.renderCursor(ctx, boundaries);
     } else {
       this.renderSelection(ctx, boundaries);
@@ -482,8 +491,11 @@ export class IText<
    * If contextTop is not available, do nothing.
    */
   renderCursorAt(selectionStart: number) {
-    const boundaries = this._getCursorBoundaries(selectionStart, true);
-    this._renderCursor(this.canvas!.contextTop, boundaries, selectionStart);
+    this._renderCursor(
+      this.canvas!.contextTop,
+      this._getCursorBoundaries(selectionStart, true),
+      selectionStart,
+    );
   }
 
   /**
@@ -495,11 +507,16 @@ export class IText<
     this._renderCursor(ctx, boundaries, this.selectionStart);
   }
 
-  _renderCursor(
-    ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D,
-    boundaries: CursorBoundaries,
-    selectionStart: number,
-  ) {
+  /**
+   * Return the data needed to render the cursor for given selection start
+   * The left,top are relative to the object, while width and height are prescaled
+   * to look think with canvas zoom and object scaling,
+   * so they depend on canvas and object scaling
+   */
+  getCursorRenderingData(
+    selectionStart: number = this.selectionStart,
+    boundaries: CursorBoundaries = this._getCursorBoundaries(selectionStart),
+  ): CursorRenderingData {
     const cursorLocation = this.get2DCursorLocation(selectionStart),
       lineIndex = cursorLocation.lineIndex,
       charIndex =
@@ -514,21 +531,32 @@ export class IText<
           this.lineHeight -
         charHeight * (1 - this._fontSizeFraction);
 
-    if (this.inCompositionMode) {
-      // TODO: investigate why there isn't a return inside the if,
-      // and why can't happen at the top of the function
-      this.renderSelection(ctx, boundaries);
-    }
-    ctx.fillStyle =
-      this.cursorColor ||
-      (this.getValueOfPropertyAt(lineIndex, charIndex, FILL) as string);
-    ctx.globalAlpha = this._currentCursorOpacity;
-    ctx.fillRect(
-      boundaries.left + boundaries.leftOffset - cursorWidth / 2,
-      topOffset + boundaries.top + dy,
-      cursorWidth,
-      charHeight,
-    );
+    return {
+      color:
+        this.cursorColor ||
+        (this.getValueOfPropertyAt(lineIndex, charIndex, 'fill') as string),
+      opacity: this._currentCursorOpacity,
+      left: boundaries.left + boundaries.leftOffset - cursorWidth / 2,
+      top: topOffset + boundaries.top + dy,
+      width: cursorWidth,
+      height: charHeight,
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Render the cursor at the given selectionStart.
+   *
+   */
+  _renderCursor(
+    ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D,
+    boundaries: CursorBoundaries,
+    selectionStart: number,
+  ) {
+    const { color, opacity, left, top, width, height } =
+      this.getCursorRenderingData(selectionStart, boundaries);
+    ctx.fillStyle = color;
+    ctx.globalAlpha = opacity;
+    ctx.fillRect(left, top, width, height);
   }
 
   /**