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this is incredibly slick. i love how easy it feels. one major problem i faced -- once an object is selected, i thought dragging would move it, but of course it
by ashu 18y ago
this is incredibly slick. i love how easy it feels. one major problem i faced -- once an object is selected, i thought dragging would move it, but of course it doesn't. That created a bunch of unneeded shapes for me.
- zhyder 18y agoYeah I'm in two minds about that. The problem arises coz of my "optimization" where I automatically figure out whether you want to: 1. Select: click without dragging. 2. Draw: click while dragging. All other drawing apps have separate tools in the toolbar for select and draw (and even more for square/circle/text... yeesh). And I want to minimize your visits to the toolbar. If I made it drag instead of draw in your example, then I'd need a "select" tool again :(. Or I could choose the middle ground: if an object is already selected (i.e. not just being hovered over), then I do a move instead of a draw. Would this help?
- ashu 18y agoIndeed, that would fix it for me very cleanly for me, at least.
- zhyder 18y agoAny other users prefer this "middle ground" of selection versus drawing disambiguation? :) I can add it right easily enough.
- gruseom 18y agoYes. On first thought, at least, this seems like exactly the right way to do it. Very nice job, by the way. It might be the first "critique my startup" post I've seen here where I took a look and (a) it made sense, and (b) didn't suck. Actually, it's a lot better than not sucking; it's fast and immediately usable and generally feels better than average. Edit: the name dabbleboard is sort of crowded by dabble.com and dabbledb.com, though. My first thought was that it was an offshoot of one of these.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoNot needing to change modes is a fantastic feature. Hang on to it.