draw each other pictures :)

[beadyen]

Hi all,
http://artshare.design.otago.ac.nz
Woohoo! The bastard's finally online and (mostly) working!!!

It lets people draw pictures using MX's drawing api and an interface pretty much ripped from freehand, which others can add to as they wish (kind of like posts and threads in a forum). You can browse through drawings and show/hide individual contributions to the drawings. All thats left to do is clean up the design, add a search and some content explaining what its for, and we'll be away.

Thanks to all on these boards who have helped me out - comments, suggestions, (more) bug reports, whatever, are appreciated.

[sfa]

Well done, that must have taken ages, definately the most complete flash drawing app I have ever seen.

SFA

[tost]

very well done indeed, very clean and clear.
congrats!
(i think i stumbled on a lill' bug, i can't change fill color)

[jimburton]

it's a beauty - very mx! if I can ask a question, how do you save the actionscript needed to save and recreate the drawings in the back end? Adding to a string of commands selected by the user during a session and then save that one string I guess, but how then do you execute the contents of the string when it's loaded again? Just curious (and impressed)!:)

one thing - opera 6 has problems with the javascript detection that crashed my browser first time round...so I opened it in IE and no probs. [I don't know if you consider it an accessibility issue as I know many people consider opera users a diddy band of mind-cracked ne'er-do-wells...]

well done!:)

[beadyen]

All the pictures are stored as xml - a whole document for each post then individual nodes for each graphic describing its colour, points, text, formatting etc. (thanks to josh dura for the text formatting tricks).

as for the opera thing, that bites! I don't have opera myself, but used the flash deployment kit (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/player/flash_deployment_readme/ ) from macromedia's site for the detection thinking that they would have it sorted out (and because i enjoy js like i enjoy needles under my fingernails)... you know what they say about assumptions though...

thanks for the bug tost, let me know exactly how it happens and i'll see if i can't fix it. There's probably plenty more where that came from, so keep 'em coming. I might just rewrite the drawing part, because it's gotten pretty messy and unnecessarily complex while i hacked it together. a clean slate and more concise code might fix a lot of it

thanks again to all on the boards for your help with this one.

[BirdOnWire]

Originally posted by beadyen
Hi all,
http://artshare.design.otago.ac.nz
Woohoo! The bastard's finally online and (mostly) working!!!

It lets people draw pictures using MX's drawing api and an interface pretty much ripped from freehand, which others can add to as they wish (kind of like posts and threads in a forum). You can browse through drawings and show/hide individual contributions to the drawings. All thats left to do is clean up the design, add a search and some content explaining what its for, and we'll be away.

Thanks to all on these boards who have helped me out - comments, suggestions, (more) bug reports, whatever, are appreciated.

I think I will add no more but it's very damn good !

[tost]

thanks for the bug tost, let me know exactly how it happens and i'll see if i can't fix it.

it happens anywhere: default fill color is black and no matter how i move the rgb sliders, all objects i draw on the scene are black. i do see the correct color preview in the fill color panel.
regards
tost

[Rupert]

I couldn't get in to see it yesterday - it took forever to load, but today it was fine.. and I think its great. Good work!!

[beadyen]

ah - mix up a colour, then click on the coloured rectangle to add it to the fill/outline colour lists - then select the thing you want to change the colour of, then click on the colour in the lists.

as for the loading time, there's a bit of a fix on the php at the moment - flash does a search and replace on the php query results which seems to lag it up quite badly. so its not actually loading most of the time you see the message, its just on the verge of crashing :) this will be fixed soon.