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- stewdio0
Keep the QBNpro dream alive ;)
http://chatttr.com/room/qbnpro
- 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?
- dMullins0
The ability to add photos would be nice.
- 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.
- 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
- Amicus0
It would be great to be able to type and draw in one post.
- 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.
- ben_0
my dog likes it.
- stewdio0
Anyone know who the "anonymous" (004-000-176) guy / gal is with the JS skills? They've obviously got some code skills—and a sense of humor. But they're being coy: http://chatttr.com
I love the spiral.
- numbers0
Interesting
- stewdio0
Sorry about that. I was coding and updating later at night than I should have been. Drawing works again. I found a weird bug with "undo" that requires you to hit it a lot of times. Will look into that one later post coffee.
- and... just as a suggestion in light of recent shit... http://chatttr.com/r…stewdio
- D4W33D0
cmd Z > yeah!
- stewdio0
Minor update: I didn't like having to include the word "room" in the URL when accessing a separate chat room. So I fixed it ;) You can make new rooms now like this:
http://chatttr.com/QBN
http://chatttr.com/occupy
http://chatttr.com/NSFWAnd so on. I've got a long list of bug fixes and features to add. Those have to wait until I've cleared a few big client deadlines. But this rooms things was a quick fix. (And I think an enjoyable one if you're a bit OCD about URL aesthetics.)
- +1 but how do I know what rooms are active? or, is the mystery part of the fun?monospaced
- For now keeping rooms "private" as stop-gap measure for spam. Might change that when "vote to ban" works...stewdio
- stewdio0
@monospaced Also I didn't want to list the active rooms until I could make rooms "locked" to outsiders somehow. This way if your room's URL is unlisted it's sort of private. Not full-proof private of course! But I'm working on solving that as well...
I've been using Chatttr for some quick online client meetings. I just create a room by sharing a random URL like http://chatttr.com/ourGroupMeeti… and then I can quickly go over details with collaborators in NY and a client in Germany. No sign ins. And sometimes hand sketches can be very helpful and much more efficient than text descriptions. It doesn't replace Skype conferences, etc. but Chatttr is still very young and growing ;)
- dude, I could be using your service to do the same...monospaced
- GeorgesII0
very neat, can I have a room please,
preferably a penthouse,thknx
- just make onemonospaced
- Sorry... penthouses are a bit larger than I can handle ;) But rooms? http://chatttr.com/G…stewdio