Live draw feature

Jeremy · **Posted:** March 26th, 2007, 1:00 pm

It would be quite handy to have a live draw / paint function available. Nothing complicated, just the ability to draw onto a screen, perhaps with the option of selecting colours.

Clive Cartmel · **Posted:** March 29th, 2007, 8:42 pm

Just the ability to be able to draw a line from a to b would be rather nice without having to resort to complex coding.

Clive Cartmel

Jeremy · **Posted:** March 30th, 2007, 2:43 pm

Since posting this I have lost business because of a lack of this feature. I produce a "Virtual flip chart" which handles text fine but no drawing. I regularly use web applications for demo work and these all have this feature either as a whiteboard or for document highlighting.

Any idea from DW as to if this is:
A. Feasible
B. When......

:cry:

Paul Harris · **Posted:** March 30th, 2007, 3:08 pm

A. Yes

B. Not long now ;-)

Paul Harris

eomc40 · **Posted:** March 30th, 2007, 3:36 pm

The suspense, I can't take it any more

, Please give us a date to focus our minds to...

Craig Gilman · **Posted:** October 31st, 2009, 9:30 pm

What's tghe deal with this?

Not long now? It's now a lot later (couple of years) and no more info...

Is this available and if so how and where to find it!

Lar_123 · **Posted:** November 1st, 2009, 7:08 pm

Here's an excerpt from the PDF covering what's new in OpusPro v6.0 -- the numbers are page numbers (from ToC).

Quote:

Drawing Commands 23
Draw Line 24
DrawRectangle 27
DrawRoundRectangle 28
DrawEllipse 28
DrawRegPoly 29
DrawStar 30
Draw Diamond 31
AddPoint 31
Freehand Drawing 32
RemovePoint 32
Setting the Initial Draw Point 33
MovePoint 34
ClearDraw 34
Temperature Bar Example 34
Further Exercises 36
Creating New Button Styles 37
Default Button Styles 37
XP Buttons 39
Special Button Styles 39
CheckBoxes 42
External DLL Support 45
Loading the DLL 45
Calling Functions in the DLL 46
Examples 48
Using the Windows Message Boxes 49
Update Publication 53
Publishing Your Initial Publication 53
Publishing Updates 54
Update Publication Action 55

Craig Gilman · **Posted:** November 12th, 2009, 1:17 am

Okay so it looks like there's some new functions... are they like the drawign api in flash?

I'd like to be able to make a simple drawing application for graffiti

Lar_123 · **Posted:** November 12th, 2009, 1:21 am

Suggest find and read the User Guide pdf. Suggest download the trial and play with the included Sample Pubs --- that's better than words.

Craig Gilman · **Posted:** November 12th, 2009, 1:27 am

there's no sample drawing publication in the trial I have of 6.4

Lar_123 · **Posted:** November 12th, 2009, 3:52 am

it's in Browse Sample Publications >>>> New Features Highlights. And maybe other places, plus some forum posts.

lmc · **Posted:** June 3rd, 2011, 12:17 pm

Just to go back to the Draw functions in Opus, and future possibilities.

I would love a more advance option here, with better drawing options, erase options for erasing part of lines, etc. Being able to do it without creating multiple frames for different colours, or line thickness as I currently do.

The current crop of drawing functions are very useful, but if it was possible to add a full drawing object to Opus publications allowing the end user to do some of the following shown in these example websites.

Mug Tug SketchPad an incredible powerful paint function:
http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

Zwibbler an interesting vector drawing implementation with selection, movement and scaling:
http://zwibbler.com/

Great example of what some simple coding can do in HTML5:
http://www.williammalone.com/articles/c ... o-complete

Or even supply a Interactive Whiteboard Plugin for developers, as I would be willing to pay extra for this type of feature.

Thanks.

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