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- monospaced0
It would be great if I could disable the drawings so that I don't have to have crudely drawn cocks with hairy balls on my screen at work.
- Amicus0
It would be great to be able to type and draw in one post.
- stewdio0
@dbloc
I've seen some demos of collaborative drawing rooms before. The big early example being GE's "Imagination Cubed" (which seems to have been taken down a while back unfortunately) and Mr. Doob's "Multiuser Sketchpad" (http://mrdoob.com/projects/mult... But those were both setup as just one single big canvas that everyone was drawing to at once. I thought that forcing the drawings into the one-off flow of a chat room might also be a good model. That way there was a still an overall flow of history, and the drawing augmented the text chat instead of either totally replacing it, or forcing the two to exist in separate spaces. And... that would be easier to add on to the existing chat code.
As for the HTML5 drawing functionality, I'm building this on top of the brand new PaperJS framework which is an awesome little vector framework. (It's based on Scriptographer if you're familiar with that.) Here's the Paper website: http://paperjs.org/
I knew I wanted to use Paper to do drawings. And then I saw this Paper example that does path simplification on freehand drawings, which really excited me because I needed a quick way to compress the paths: http://paperjs.org/examples/path…
So... that's what I was working with. I've never seen drawing integrated into chat like this. Once you see it you wonder why that's the case because it seems like such an obvious solution. Maybe no one did it because it's not very censor-able? (In just 24 hours I've seen pretty horrible posts that already have me questioning what the point is...) Or maybe there are tons of great examples of it out there and I'm just too much of a shut-in to have someone tell me about them.
Ok. That's my ramble for now.
- I think you're doing it right. As with anything anonymous, you will get random postings. I wouldn't let that deter you.dbloc
- thanks for the links. I want to look into it more. I definitely remember mr. doobdbloc
- how Jobs-esque of you, creating something new that seems so obvious only after the factmonospaced
- dbloc0
I remember a functionality before that you could turn off the jump to the bottom when a new post is made. That was nice.
- dMullins0
The ability to add photos would be nice.
- dbloc0
it's alive and doing well. Ace work Stewdio. I haven't seen the drawing capability anywhere else in a chat room. is this something you came up with?
- stewdio0
Keep the QBNpro dream alive ;)
http://chatttr.com/room/qbnpro
- D4W33D0
i want one, I sign
- Amicus0
Stewdio for President!
- mg330
damn man, I wish I had that kind of free time. I hope you make some money off selling this or something. :)
- instrmntl0
wow awesome
- ukit0
Bravo
- moldero0
fuckin cool man
- scarabin0
word. diggin' it
- benfal990
SUPER nice chat stewdio. Great work! Now its time to make money with it. Sell it or something.
- sea_sea0
stew you are the bestest. super cool, thanks :)