I love it! Great work man. Feel like a kid again :)
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#22I love the spirit of this, and I've been waiting for someone to make it for years, if I didn't get to it first! If anyone wants to make a similar web app, I maintain an open source library whose sole purpose is putting JavaScript drawing programs on web pages with custom tools. http://literallycanvas.com/ Here's a simple web app I made with it that saves to local storage and uploads to Dropbox and Imgur: http://drawp…
Also relevant: a large, collaborative live painting: http://webcanvas.com/
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#23Well done! My train-obsessed 3 year old would approve of the stamp toolbar defaulting to a train. A button to download the canvas as a png or jpg would be nice for saving and sharing special creations.
Same with my kids! See also the draggable train tracks! :D
not at all obvious: keyboard, 's' to save/download :)
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#24This is great! I can definitely see one of the reasons why it works so well for kids: there aren't any weird menu buttons that you might accidentally press and get lost in. You just draw and push the buttons to see what difference they make.
It's funny you mention that — the author of Kid Pix wrote about the motivation around his app and he specifically calls that out as well:
"I didn't want to use pull-down menus for this because, among other reasons, Ben had trouble with them. " [http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years/]
I tried to stick to and follow as many of the directives he has listed with Kiddo Paint.
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#25Well done! My train-obsessed 3 year old would approve of the stamp toolbar defaulting to a train. A button to download the canvas as a png or jpg would be nice for saving and sharing special creations.
Same with my kids! See also the draggable train tracks! :D not at all obvious: keyboard, 's' to save/download :)
Ah, nice! :) The Github did mention that there was a handful of hidden features.
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#26Wow, so are we on the same wavelength or something? I made this a few weeks ago on JS fiddle with the idea of recreating kidpix. Even used unicode chars with a face for the undo!
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#27Great -- the very first button I press (the frowning cat) cleared out my entire painting. And I have no idea how to get it back.
Clicking on every button shows that clicking the cat again brings it back. What does this cat actually do? Labels would be useful.
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#28Nice! Couple of things:
- Firefox on Ubuntu yields "TypeError: t.srcElement is undefined" when I try to change the colour.
- I don't have any fonts for some of the icons in the buttons (e.g. the arrow). Seeing as you're presumably already loading the textures for drawing onto the canvas, you might as well just use an image for the buttons too.
Hope this helps.
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#29Great -- the very first button I press (the frowning cat) cleared out my entire painting. And I have no idea how to get it back. Clicking on every button shows that clicking the cat again brings it back. What does this cat actually do? Labels would be useful.
Sorry! D:
That's the "oops" cat: 1 operation undo/redo.
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#30Nice! Couple of things: - Firefox on Ubuntu yields "TypeError: t.srcElement is undefined" when I try to change the colour. - I don't have any fonts for some of the icons in the buttons (e.g. the arrow). Seeing as you're presumably already loading the textures for drawing onto the canvas, you might as well just use an image for the buttons too. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the report; I have screenshots from others and will take a look at fixes shortly. Cheers!