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Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Post by steveruizok »

jarnagin wrote: post #89
steveruizok wrote: post #33

Hey, author here! Glad folks are enjoying this. A few notes: - I post a _lot_ about tldraw on Twitter. If you're curious about how this came together, or want to follow along as we ship new features, check out my timeline ( https://twitter.com/steveruizok ). - The whole tldraw project is MIT licensed and open source ( https://github.com/tldraw ). And it's still in development! If you'd like to contribute, join the Di…

Love this. One idea that I haven't seen implemented in other drawing tools: the default behavior after drawing a shape is to revert to the select tool. This is rational but it can also pull you out of flow if you're trying to diagram quickly. It'd be useful to extend the keyboard shortcuts to the select tool, so that when I highlight a region with select, I can press, e.g. 5, and have a circle automatically filled in…

Just replied to another commenter with the same feedback, but agreed that there are times where you want to stick with one of those shapes.

Double click on the shape in the toolbar to keep it selected!

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Post by steveruizok »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #83
steveruizok wrote: post #35

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We do have that! You can right click and select commands like Move > Send to Back.

Thanks, I didn't notice this. By the way, Tldraw somehow remembered my unsaved drawing — that's impressive!

Cheers. And yep, it’ll try to persist the document to local storage if your browser lets it.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Post by efunneko »

bradrn wrote: post #65
sha-3 wrote: post #40

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Works fine on my Firefox.

On mine also.

It isn't working on my Firefox (94.0.1 in Windows):

From the console I see this each time I try to draw a line: Unexpected value NaN parsing x attribute. react dom.production.min.js:23:234 Unexpected value NaN parsing y attribute.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Post by efunneko »

Very nice and smooth! I think this may be my go to whiteboarding site...

One feature request would be that if I start typing when a box or circle is selected, it would put text in that object. I realize that this might be difficult with hotkeys, but I use that feature in Visio all the time and I love it for quick diagrams.

Next best would be if you select the text button (or '7') when an object is selected, it would insert the text in that object.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Post by efunneko »

efunneko wrote: post #104

Very nice and smooth! I think this may be my go to whiteboarding site... One feature request would be that if I start typing when a box or circle is selected, it would put text in that object. I realize that this might be difficult with hotkeys, but I use that feature in Visio all the time and I love it for quick diagrams. Next best would be if you select the text button (or '7') when an object is selected, it would…

A few other feature requests/bugs after using it with my iPad and a pen:

- can't select menu items with pen

- an undo button on the hotbar would be nice

- a way to control the return to select mode after drawing a shape - I often want to draw a few boxes and then connect them with arrows, but having to keep hitting the shape select is a bit painful

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Post by chefandy »

steveruizok wrote: post #99
chefandy wrote: post #79

I do some digital illustration, so maybe my perception is colored by a workflow that can't be generalized to others, but I am puzzled by it switching back to the arrow tool after drawing a shape. If I just drew a circle, I'm far more likely to draw another circle than select something.

There are competing conventions for this in different kinds of apps. In the end, I went with the design app convention. If you want it to stick with the same shape, double click the shape in the toolbar!

Out of curiosity, from which design app did you model your decision? I’m not questioning you, but I’m very curious to know which design software GUIs use an idiom so different from what I’ve experienced, yet is common enough to be a convention. I’ve used many design apps for many purposes and never used one that would switch you out of any mark making tool automatically once a single mark was made. (I’m a UI designer and developer primarily, so new (to me) things in design tool UIs tick a lot of personal interest boxes.)
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