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I’m the author of Monodraw, happy to answer any questions.
What are some specific things people have done with your software that surprised you, or made you feel proud of what you've created?
I've been told it was used for wire-framing and mind-mapping which I never envisioned!
I’m the author of Monodraw, happy to answer any questions.
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Looks like a really great app! However, screen shots from older versions of Mac OS on a product page always make me a bit worried about the future of an app. Do you intend to update the UI and such to match Big Sur and the upcoming Monterey?
It's been on my list and we've made some progress but to be completely transparent, I've been extremely overloaded and it's been hard to set aside time for it. So, I'll try to get to it eventually but no promises on timeline.
FYI, Emacs bundles w/ the package `artist-mode` that seems to have equivalent functionality, you can even draw w/ the mouse. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDbi56U5qRw&ab_channel=gnuma...
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> a cross platform Not a cross-platform, but JavaScript-extension with cross-platform Chromium browser bundled.
As far as I can see there are Electron apps for all major desktop OSes, that's pretty much as cross-platform as it gets, for a desktop app.
Without browser this "browser extension" (Web-app) could not run on any platform.
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As far as I can see there are Electron apps for all major desktop OSes, that's pretty much as cross-platform as it gets, for a desktop app.
Electron app is "JavaScript-app + Chromium browser (or any other browser)" Without browser this "browser extension" (Web-app) could not run on any platform.
Unfortunately in minimal maintenance mode for the last 3 years. https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ Still works well though.
An implicit assumption in software seems to be that for it to stay relevant, it must be perpetually evolving. But there is something to be said for deciding a piece of software has reached it's intended potential and simply maintaining it. Granted, it sounds like the author feels like there are more meaningful things to add or change, but that doesn't mean the software is any less relevant than it was 3 years back.
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Electron app is "JavaScript-app + Chromium browser (or any other browser)" Without browser this "browser extension" (Web-app) could not run on any platform.
Electron is a runtime environment that evolved out of a browser, not a browser. This app doesn't have any browser functionality I can see, like open arbitrary websites, but it does have its own system menus, icon, it's directly executable by the OS. By that logic no software written in an interpreted language can never be cross-platform, you'll always need a runtime environment.
Desktop files (on Linux & Windows) are just nothing than a text file with description/meta info and a link to local executable or any other sort of file* - that is NOT related in any way to executable at all.
> it's directly executable by the OS.
Because it is browser (Chromium) with a custom browser-extension by design.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
Ah, good ol' ambiguous-width box drawing characters. They are not ASCII and their width is not prescribed by the Unicode standard and mostly determined by domestic conventions. Stick to ASCII drawing for the maximal portability.
X
/ \
/ \ X
| |--------+ / \
\ / | / \
\ / +-------->| |
V \ /
+--------------------+ \ /
|lkjhlkjhlkjh lkjh | ---+ V
+--------------------+ | +--------------------+
+---> |lkjhlkjhlkjh lkjh |
+--------------------+