Great job. One request: Make the CMD shortcuts work for the CTRL key too. They don't seem to fire.
Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
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Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#32As someone who struggles in general with javascript this is phenomenal and makes me feel like a programming goof. Good job.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#33Cool, but I need separate object and direct selection arrows like Illustrator. And rulers and draggable guides and a square grid.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#34Awesome! I'm really awful at drawing on my computer. Many failed attempts at trying to learn Illustrator, Gimp, etc. What's really cool about a web app of a drawing app is that you could use all the open source product tour JS libraries to create interactive tutorials... So impressive, thank you!
If you failed at using Illustrator or Gimp effectively, then you didn't try hard enough. Follow video tutorials and try to recreate graphics, in time you'll get better. Ugh, this entire thing is in coffeescript too, now I have to learn coffeescript to make sense of this library.
You might be shocked (shocked!) at how clean and readable some of the CoffeeScript source is. To pick an example at random:
https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian/blob/master/src/geome...
Artur really did a nice job with structuring this project...
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#35Didn't work at all for the MediaCrush logo. https://mediacru.sh/static/mediacrush_logo.svg
Is this negativity really necessary? If you're going to leave a comment about something not working at least say what went wrong and what could fix the issues you had. I'm sick of comments like this constantly polluting HN's community with negativity.
I meant to be more useful than negative, by offering a test file that didn't work so they could try it themselves and perhaps fix the problem.
I'm sick of people being sick of this stuff.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#36Is there a specific reason why you choose to implement most (all?) of the functionality yourself without building it on top of any existing libraries?
For fun
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you failed at using Illustrator or Gimp effectively, then you didn't try hard enough. Follow video tutorials and try to recreate graphics, in time you'll get better. Ugh, this entire thing is in coffeescript too, now I have to learn coffeescript to make sense of this library.
You might be shocked (shocked!) at how clean and readable some of the CoffeeScript source is. To pick an example at random: https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian/blob/master/src/geome... Artur really did a nice job with structuring this project...
Vanilla JS is easier for me. I don't have time to learn the workings of coffeescript just to read a library casually.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#38Artur, the linked page is almost unreadable here (Chrome OSX): http://cl.ly/image/0F212f3X2h07 The Maven Pro font appears to be infinitely thin at weight 300, it only starts being readable at 120px+. It doesn't have a version for that weight, so the browser is [failing at] simulating that.
Looks fine for me both in Canary and Stable on Snow Leopard.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#39Wow. Love it. Love the visual history. It feels quite snappy. The UI aesthetics are great. You've got most the pen tool features I used in Illustrator, and managed to do it without having multiple kinds of arrows to keep track of, which always bugged me.
FWIW, I actually much preferred Illustrator's v/a distinction to the 'click on a point' / 'drag over line' distinction here.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#40Really really impressive, you roxx PS: http://tutorsbox.com creator
are you actually making money off that? check my profile for a link to an open source project of mine that has similar functionality with a lot more content management features.