Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

good work, its nice app. I like the concept, after playing about with penpen though im thinking it might be an idea to create a seperate app if you intend on creating a flipbook style app.

Just curious are you using pyqt for this? If so is opengl accelration being used for the graphicsview? i noticed as sketched it would get alittle laggy, if you where evolve this into a simple flipbook it could get more sluggish when you add features like onion skinning.

Anyways nice app, i too vote for ctrl z.
cheers
nick

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

no , it is not using pyqt. It is written in C++ plus Qt. The source is open (Anybody interested to help the development?) :

https://code.launchpad.net/~benlau/penpen/trunk

And it didn't make use of OpenGL acceleration. As I think it won't improve the speed. The speed problem should be related to vector calculation. (e.g when you draw a super long time)

Recently I am working on a GTD software for MeeGo / general Linux desktop. I am afraid it is a little bit difficult to arrange time for PenPen..

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

I would love to help but i only know python :-( i could translate your project to python but i think that would hurt the speed of the app.

Anyway it might be worth a try using opengl since its one less thing for the cpu to calculate the display of the vectors. It would be minimal I guess.

cheers
nick

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

One feature request for this app: sketch title with creation timestamp. PalmOS's "Notepad" drawing program had that feature, which really helped when having to jot down some random note very quickly - "what was this about again? when did I do this?" :)

(I wouldn't mind sketch categorization either, but one thing at a time... :) )

Thanks for your consideration!

Where do I find penpen saved files?
 

Hi guys,
I am writing here to find help about how to recover penpen files from a backup I did before taking my N900 to Nokia Assistance for repair.

The phone part was broken but all the rest (wifi and all the apps) was working fine. The fact is that Nokia Italy arbitrarily replaced my N900 with an E7.

Before taking the N900 to Nokia I did one complete backup with the native Backup app in N900. Plus I copied the whole content of my hd/phone to my desktop computer.

I am able to find any file but the Penpen ones. I used to work with penpen to write during meetings and brainstorming sessions with clients, so I am a bit lost. Where are they? Is it possible that they weren't copied to my computer?
Do you have any hint? That'd be great.

Thanks in advance and thanks anyway. You guys are a wonderful community and I am already regretting that my N900 is gone.

Enrico

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

Hi natolie,

PenPen store your writing into /home/user/.local/share/data/penpen/sketch.db .

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

That's a problem... Anything under /home/user/MyDocs/ doesn't show up in USB storage mode, and judging by the statements made by natolie, she did not back up her /home or rootfs partitions up (since it requires a level of N900/tech savviness to even know you have to back those up seperately). It might mean that natolie simply doesn't have her PenPen data anymore.

It also means that without SSH or command-line fiddling, or full-filesystem-accessing file managers, a user can't even get to those files conveniently.

I strongly recommend making a version bump that uses, say, /home/user/MyDocs/.local/share/data/penpen/sketch.db or anything in /home/user/MyDocs. A preinst script in debian/control when packaging could handle the one-time move of the sketch.db file elsewhere.

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

I am no big expert so I understand what benlau and Mentalist Traceur meant but I surely underevaluated the aspect of backing up anything that goes out of myDocs.

Just one more thing: I did backup with the Backup native app in N900, so I have the following files:
- backup.metadata
- bookmarks.zip
- comm_and_cal.zip
- settings.zip
and I think I skipped the Applications options' backup because I guess I thought I would eventually reinstall everything later on, assuming that option would concern the apps' files only and not my files. In fact I thought my files would be under MyDocs.

Anyway I managed to unzip settings.zip and get to open the /home/user/.local/share/data/ directory, but there is nothing else inside data where I expected to find the penpen directory containing the sketch.db file.

Did I do any possible attempt therefore my files are gone or do you think I could do some different attempts?

Thanks again,
have a nice day.

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

cool great app. it should replace n900 existing "Sketch" app.

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch Book - For quick note taking / painting
 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/penpen/+bug/1308897

P.S. This is one of the best apps I know of.