On Android I see a ... option bottom left. No idea what those options do (apparently nothing). Otherwise a nice app.
Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
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#12My dream drawing app would let you draw a stroke multiple times and then pick out your best attempt. No need to undo all the bad ones to try again. It separates the generation and the judgment.
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#13nice one
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#14Ereaser on phone is especially good. Just like an irl whiteboard ereaser.
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#15Very good performance drawing freehand strokes.
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#16Currently I am a happy excalidraw user. They look very similar. For which uses cases tldraw is better suited?
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#17Sorry, since this was posted a month ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854949 ) highlighting that it was sponsorware. It is now open-sourced and free also.
Saving a Google search for the uninitiated (me):
``` Simply stated, the “Sponsorware” model for releasing a project is made up of a few simple steps:
Build something people want! – This is easier said than done, but we believe this model works best for open source projects with significant pre-release hype. The more interest you are able to build in your product before launch, the better your results are likely to be.
Make it available only to “sponsors” – These “sponsors” are people who give you recurring revenue. This can be through any of the big sponsorship platforms (i.e. - GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, OpenCollective, etc.) or it can be a system you roll yourself. The important parts are A) that the revenue is recurring, and B) that either your number of sponsors or your net revenue is publicly viewable
Set a sponsorship threshold, and after crossing it, make your thing freely available to the world! – This can be a number of monthly sponsors, an amount of monthly revenue, or whatever you like. It should be PUBLIC though. Transparency is huge in this process and people need to be able to see progress toward the goal.Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#18Very nice. What API is used to track Shift/Ctrl/Alt keys state?
There is the standard event.getModifierState() API, but the most reliable solution I found was to listen for "keydown", "keyup", "blur", "pointerdown", "pointermove" and "pointerup" events on the window object and then store the modifier keys state based on the value of event.ctrlKey/altKey/metaKey/shiftKey.
You need to listen for the pointer events because some devices such as Wacom tablets do not dispatch proper keyboard events when you press a button that has a modifier key role assigned to it.
On Apple devices event.metaKey represents the state of the command key, so in most scenarios you would be storing the state as: let ctrlOrCmd = (isAppleDevice ? event.metaKey : event.ctrlKey);
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#19This is excellent work!
Starts immediately and works on my phone as well as my laptop. No sign up or anything - just straight to business as it should be.
It is open source and interestingly packaged as a library:
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#20Consider adding layers.
Or objects rearrangement at least.