HTML5 Canvas get transform matrix?

Question

Is there a way to get the current transformation matrix for a canvas? There is a context.setTransform() function, but there does not seem to be a getTransform() equivalent a

Answer 1

As @ellisbben mentioned pretty much the only way you can do this is to keep track of it yourself. You can find one solution here. It wraps the context within a wrapper and then handles the nasty bits there.