PixiJS

Class: Application

PIXI.Application

Convenience class to create a new PIXI application.

This class automatically creates the renderer, ticker and root container.

new PIXI.Application (options)

Application.ts:45
Name Type Attributes Default Description
options object <optional>

The optional renderer parameters.
options.autoStart boolean <optional>
 true

Automatically starts the rendering after the construction. Note: Setting this parameter to false does NOT stop the shared ticker even if you set options.sharedTicker to true in case that it is already started. Stop it by your own.
options.width number <optional>
 800

The width of the renderers view.
options.height number <optional>
 600

The height of the renderers view.
options.view HTMLCanvasElement <optional>

The canvas to use as a view, optional.
options.transparent boolean <optional>
 false

If the render view is transparent.
options.autoDensity boolean <optional>
 false

Resizes renderer view in CSS pixels to allow for resolutions other than 1.
options.antialias boolean <optional>
 false

Sets antialias
options.preserveDrawingBuffer boolean <optional>
 false

Enables drawing buffer preservation, enable this if you need to call toDataUrl on the WebGL context.
options.resolution number <optional>
 1

The resolution / device pixel ratio of the renderer, retina would be 2.
options.forceCanvas boolean <optional>
 false

prevents selection of WebGL renderer, even if such is present, this option only is available when using pixi.js-legacy or @pixi/canvas-renderer modules, otherwise it is ignored.
options.backgroundColor number <optional>
 0x000000

The background color of the rendered area (shown if not transparent).
options.clearBeforeRender boolean <optional>
 true

This sets if the renderer will clear the canvas or not before the new render pass.
options.powerPreference string <optional>

Parameter passed to webgl context, set to "high-performance" for devices with dual graphics card. (WebGL only).
options.sharedTicker boolean <optional>
 false

true to use PIXI.Ticker.shared, false to create new ticker. If set to false, you cannot register a handler to occur before anything that runs on the shared ticker. The system ticker will always run before both the shared ticker and the app ticker.
options.sharedLoader boolean <optional>
 false

true to use PIXI.Loader.shared, false to create new Loader.
options.resizeTo Window | HTMLElement <optional>

Element to automatically resize stage to.

Example


 // Create the application
 const app = new PIXI.Application();

 // Add the view to the DOM
 document.body.appendChild(app.view);

 // ex, add display objects
 app.stage.addChild(PIXI.Sprite.from('something.png'));

Members

loader PIXI.Loader

Loader instance to help with asset loading.

renderer PIXI.Renderer | PIXI.CanvasRenderer

WebGL renderer if available, otherwise CanvasRenderer.

resizeTo Window | HTMLElement

The HTML element or window to automatically resize the renderer's view element to match width and height.

screen PIXI.Rectangle

Reference to the renderer's screen rectangle. Its safe to use as filterArea or hitArea for the whole screen.

stage PIXI.Container

The root display container that's rendered.

ticker PIXI.Ticker

Ticker for doing render updates.

Default Value:
  • PIXI.Ticker.shared

view HTMLCanvasElement

Reference to the renderer's canvas element.

Type Definitions

Plugin object

Properties:
Name Type Description
destroy Function

Called when destroying Application, scoped to Application instance
init Function

Called when Application is constructed, scoped to Application instance. Passes in options as the only argument, which are Application constructor options.

Methods

PIXI.Application.registerPlugin (plugin) void static

Application.ts:101

Register a middleware plugin for the application

Name Type Description
plugin PIXI.Application.Plugin

Plugin being installed

PIXI.Application.start () void static

TickerPlugin.ts:70

Convenience method for starting the render.

PIXI.Application.stop () void static

TickerPlugin.ts:60

Convenience method for stopping the render.

destroy (removeView, stageOptions) void

Application.ts:141

Destroy and don't use after this.

Name Type Attributes Default Description
removeView Boolean <optional>
 false

Automatically remove canvas from DOM.
stageOptions object | boolean <optional>

Options parameter. A boolean will act as if all options have been set to that value
stageOptions.children boolean <optional>
 false

if set to true, all the children will have their destroy method called as well. 'stageOptions' will be passed on to those calls.
stageOptions.texture boolean <optional>
 false

Only used for child Sprites if stageOptions.children is set to true. Should it destroy the texture of the child sprite
stageOptions.baseTexture boolean <optional>
 false

Only used for child Sprites if stageOptions.children is set to true. Should it destroy the base texture of the child sprite

render () void

Application.ts:111

Render the current stage.

resize () void

ResizePlugin.ts:90

Execute an immediate resize on the renderer, this is not throttled and can be expensive to call many times in a row. Will resize only if resizeTo property is set.