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Wow that was amazingly fast feedback! Thanks! 1. Good idea, was considering that anyway as a way to reduce my database load, as opposed to saving every 4 secon

by zhyder 18y ago

Wow that was amazingly fast feedback! Thanks! 1. Good idea, was considering that anyway as a way to reduce my database load, as opposed to saving every 4 seconds (if you change the drawing) which is what I'm currently doing. (I'm a hardware engineer and this is my first webapp: I just found out writes to the database are really really slow. Will explore memcached optimizations too.) 2. The intent of the refresh button is for when you're sharing the drawing with others (I initially wanted realtime refresh, but got worried about performance). Hence I put the button under the share panel. But I guess you're right, you would need to refresh more often than you'd need to see who else you're sharing with or to add people for sharing... 2.1 This should be trivial. Will do :). 3. (Not sure if you saw the video or already know this.) The pane on the left is the library pane (or "documents dock") that shows all your saved drawings. The idea is the current drawing is just like any other drawing in the library, just that it's got the focus for now. Or is this idea non-intuitive? 4. The issue is how often would you want to draw angular vectors, compared to rectangles. As an "optimization" for the UI, I allow users to draw a rectangle with just 2 sides rather than all 4 sides (which also works), because I expect them to be very common. Thanks so much for the feedback! And I'm elated that you'd actually use it! EDIT 5. You're the third person that asked for this feature, so now it's on my near-term to-do list. I don't think it's hard; just to eat the cost of the bandwidth and storage (which currently is very low). 6. Hmmm... I personally hate revisiting the toolbar each time I have to enter text, so I don't (yet) agree. This is on my "wait for more users to ask for this feature" list :).

markbao 18y ago
1. I'd also expect that database writes are ridiculously slow when you're talking realish-time collaboration. 3. Got your point. I noticed that it was only pushing the current document to the documents pane when I was creating a new document. I'm used to the Google Docs approach - that is, if you make a new document and change it, it'll be in your documents, saved. Maybe, though, your approach may work better in this aspect. 4. Yeah, that makes sense. I think it's only a problem if you're a new user and are just messing around with it, the real usage of angular vectors is probably very little :) No problem - best of luck! EDIT - 6. That's true - definitely agree with you there.
psyklic 18y ago
6. I jumped right in without watching the video, and I got pretty frustrated when I wanted to type text and didn't see a toolbar option. I didn't even think about just typing. I do think you should add it, then "power users" will figure out that you can just start typing.
- mtrimpe 18y ago
  It might be funny and intuitive to put a text button on the toolbar and when it's clicked display a large hint on-screen saying something like: "You can add text anywhere just by clicking and start to type. So no need for this pesky button!" And then fade the text button away or even better destroy it with an explosion animation and then keep track of it in the session/user login.
fendale 18y ago
I actually got how to use the text straight away - Please don't change that to force people to use the tool bar to put it into text mode - that would be very frustrating!

by zhyder 18y ago

markbao 18y ago

1. I'd also expect that database writes are ridiculously slow when you're talking realish-time collaboration. 3. Got your point. I noticed that it was only pushing the current document to the documents pane when I was creating a new document. I'm used to the Google Docs approach - that is, if you make a new document and change it, it'll be in your documents, saved. Maybe, though, your approach may work better in this aspect. 4. Yeah, that makes sense. I think it's only a problem if you're a new user and are just messing around with it, the real usage of angular vectors is probably very little :) No problem - best of luck! EDIT - 6. That's true - definitely agree with you there.

psyklic 18y ago

6. I jumped right in without watching the video, and I got pretty frustrated when I wanted to type text and didn't see a toolbar option. I didn't even think about just typing. I do think you should add it, then "power users" will figure out that you can just start typing.

mtrimpe 18y ago
It might be funny and intuitive to put a text button on the toolbar and when it's clicked display a large hint on-screen saying something like: "You can add text anywhere just by clicking and start to type. So no need for this pesky button!" And then fade the text button away or even better destroy it with an explosion animation and then keep track of it in the session/user login.

fendale 18y ago

I actually got how to use the text straight away - Please don't change that to force people to use the tool bar to put it into text mode - that would be very frustrating!