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

They have very little in common. This one is vector based on unlmited canvas and supports multiple notes.

Re: [Announce] PenPen Sketch 0.1 - For quick note taking / painting

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Originally Posted by deter3 (Post 746884)

Is it possible to add a tiny function of moving "sketches" around to re-arrange the order in current penpen ? I am using penepn for brainstorm also , but it takes me awhile to find the right sketch for right project I am working on , so , re-arrange sketch order can be much helpful if possible .

Should be fine, but will not be available in next release.

The pending features for next release :

Select Random color
Sorting
Background color , image , grid lines

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Originally Posted by deter3 (Post 746884)

I can say penpen is the best note taking tool I have been using on a mobile device , which has unlimited space with easier UI .

Thx!

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Originally Posted by kalle (Post 746938)

Unlimited canvas is very cool feature. But one function that I still feel too clumsy is panning around the sketch. When making a sketch even clicking the pan mode -icon feels too much - .

What information data does the n900 touchscreen provide? Position, pressure and the press-area size? f it provides the area size, it would be possible to do the pannin like this:
1 small size, propably fingernail or stylys -> draw
2 big size, probably fingertip -> pan

ie. panning with finger, drawing with sharp edge (you really cant draw with finger anyways)

The panning could also be done with fake multitouch: when you are pressing with one finger and then press in other place at the same time, the pressing point is interperated in between. So: if the jump of the pressure point is unrealisticly big, start panning mode.
-> panning with two fingers

I am not sure can it return the pressure of touch , but N900 only use traditional pressure type touch screen , I don't expect too much from the touch screen.

As far as I know, no any fake multitouch sensing skill is really work on pressure type touch screen. There have few thesis talk about it , but they have implementation problem which is not sensitive enough or produce fake detection in real world environment.

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

Hi, new to the thread and app. The application looks really excellent and have already tested that I can get my jottings over to my assistant for inclusion in more formal docs. Thanks!

I would like to add my vote for zooming.

I have two questions:

1) If you long press the color selection box you get the option to close the tool bar which is great. However, I could not find a way without restarting the application to get the tool bar back. I must be missing something.

2) It seems that there are two ways to scroll the screen; using the arrow keys and selecting the 'drag' icon. Is it the best use of the toold bar space to have all those arrows? Just a thought.

thanks for listening,
Fred

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

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Originally Posted by ffarber (Post 759339)

I would like to add my vote for zooming.

It is on my plan already :)

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Originally Posted by ffarber (Post 759339)

I have two questions:

1) If you long press the color selection box you get the option to close the tool bar which is great. However, I could not find a way without restarting the application to get the tool bar back. I must be missing something.

oh! You find a bug of the software. I have fixed in version control. The next release will not have the problem.

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Originally Posted by ffarber (Post 759339)

2) It seems that there are two ways to scroll the screen; using the arrow keys and selecting the 'drag' icon. Is it the best use of the toold bar space to have all those arrows? Just a thought.

thanks for listening,
Fred

There have another people think similarly. In fact, I also agree it is wasting of space. However, an animated view to next section / page of sketch could save your time when you are taking multiple line of note. Switch to another tool and drag the view is less convenient.

So I still think it is worth to keep those buttons unless it have a multitouch screen. But I think it could drop the "left" and "right" button when more tools are needed

@all,

Moreover , I am going to release 0.2-2 within few days(Test to make sure it works). But sorry that I can not implement all the features promised. (At least it will have an options to set background color). I have encountered a bug of Qt. Fix the issue (avoid the bug) take longer than expected....

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2152786/penp...721-235100.png

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

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Originally Posted by benlau (Post 759404)

oh! You find a bug of the software. I have fixed in version control. The next release will not have the problem.

Glad I could help:p

Fred

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

Hi,

I would like to announce that 0.2-2 is released!

New features:

Supported to set background color of sketch
Supported to select color randomly

Misc:

Slightly improved rendering speed
Will not show context menu for tool bar

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2152786/penp...722-235748.png
You may select pen and background color randomly

However, I am apologize that not all the promised features in this release are implemented as it take too much time in debugging a Qt bug....

Anyway , here is the list of features I have planned to implement in next release:

Zooming
Sorting
Graph line
Choose image as background

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

Enjoying the option to change font / background colour.

It seems as if the anti-aliasing is worse in this release though - all rounded letters / shapes are looking distinctly 'jagged'.

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

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Originally Posted by SallyJane (Post 762380)

Enjoying the option to change font / background colour.

It seems as if the anti-aliasing is worse in this release though - all rounded letters / shapes are looking distinctly 'jagged'.

ooooooooooooops!

Sorry for the problem. I have just released 0.2-3 with the fix to this issue. Still waiting its to be imported to extra-devel. I will check again on tomorrow morning(Now it is 01:52 in my country)

It is already available in extras-testing

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

Hi all,

The polling of first N900 coding competition is started! PenPen SketchBook is one of the participator , it belong to the section of "Graphics & Multimedia". If you like PenPen , please support PenPen and vote for it!

Your support is my greatest reward in developing PenPen.

Thanks!

The vote thread

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

Few suggestions (not sure if someone has already suggested the same)
1. full screen mode
2. background-color dialog. Maybe add a button as well... was not very obvious to me that I had to click on the box to change the color
3. "Export to file"... Maybe export to ???? (file type)... what is the exported file type?
4. update the page thumbnail with the image on the last "view" for the page... I deleted the contents from the first "view" but I had a drawing on its right but now the thumbnail is "empty/blank".

Great Job!