[BETA] ScribblePad Mod v0.6.0

[0beron]

MOD Title: Scribble Pad Mod
MOD Description: Puts a scribble pad on the posting screen to allow diagrams/drawings to be added to posts and PMs without an external graphics app.
MOD Version: 0.6.0

MOD Download: http://www.rmf33.co.uk/scribblePad-0.6.0.zip
Alternate download for PCP compatibility: http://www.rmf33.co.uk/scribblePad-0.6.0-overPCP.zip
Last Stable version: N/A

Demo Board: http://www.rmf33.co.uk/phpBB2/
Demo Username: test
Demo Password: asdfgh

Screenshot from v0.4.0:



This MOD allows similar (but fairly basic at the moment) functionality as the MSN handwriting feature to phpBB. The posting screen includes a button marked 'Add Scribble' which when clicked will display a JAVA applet that you can draw on. (The applet is hidden at first to avoid loading the JVM every time you want to post). This is submitted with the post and then displayed in the topic using the GD libraries. It could be useful for discussing math formulae, drawing maps to places, drawing brief diagrams or for anything else where a text explanation would be difficult. Plus it's great if you are a tablet user like me

Changes in version 0.6.0:
- Added caching of scribbles to image files.

Changes in version 0.5.1:
- Got rid of compression since it caused problems with some peoples configurations.
- Sorted out some repainting bugs in the drawing applet.

Changes in version 0.5.0:
- ACP control. Scribbles can be controlled in the same way as posting announcements/polls etc. You can effectively switch off scribbles in a forum by restricting scribbles to admin only for that forum.
- Scribbles are compressed in the database.
- scribbleApplet drawing code optimised.

Changes in version 0.4.0:
- Anti-aliased lines and line thicknesses.

Changes in version 0.3.0:
-Added scribble support to the PM system.

Changes in version 0.2.2:
- fixed the MOD file so it might actually work! (oops.... )

v0.2.1 fixes bug with post previews.
For those with v0.2.0, all you need to do is replace showscribble.php, nothing else in the MOD has changed.

Changes in version 0.2.0:
- Eraser tool!
- Colours!
- Removed check for empty message with non-empty scribble.

Note that scribbles drawn in v 0.1.0 will appear blank in 0.2.0

Please try it out on the demo board or with the linked mod file and report any bugs or suggest improvements and new features.

- Updated status to BETA since the main features are there and working.

[Narc0sis]

this is a cool idea.

for some reason im getting just a gray box and it says in the status bar that the applet is not found

[ScionCrow]

Neat idea.. I suggest adding an eraser to it. =P And more colors would be nice as well.

[Cybertims]

Great mod, but I have found it doesnt work with the Rich Text Feature.
Shame really.

[0beron]

Rich Text Feature? Is that another phpBB mod that clashes with this one?

I'm working on V0.2.0 which includes an eraser tool and colours other than black.

[ScionCrow]

Oooh.. I just remembered this about MSN.. it has different thickness in the lines like, thin, medium, and thick or something? That'd be a bit nice.

[Cybertims]

Rich Text Feature? Is that another phpBB mod that clashes with this one?

I'm working on V0.2.0 which includes an eraser tool and colours other than black.

Yeah, I have that HotEditor installed as my members love it but It wont work alongside yours.

[0beron]

OK, version 0.2.0 is running on the demo board - that means colours, an eraser and I've got rid of the check for empty messages when there is a non-empty scribble attached. I'll update the download link above tomorrow morning.

Oooh.. I just remembered this about MSN.. it has different thickness in the lines like, thin, medium, and thick or something? That'd be a bit nice.

Yeah I'd half thought about that. I'd need to learn a bit more about the GD libraries before I tried it but it should't be too hard as long as GD is actually capable of drawing thick lines.

[DKing]

The eraser doesn't work for me... (firefox, java just installed, WinXPro =P SP2) But other than that, it's a great mod... Nice job, and I hope it gets validated quickly when it's ready to be submitted!

[0beron]

Hmmm - it shouldn't be your OS/browser that is the problem - cos I have the exact same setup. The eraser is fairly basic at the moment in that it only erases a line when the cursor passes within 3 pixels of one of the points on the line - if you drew a line very quickly and the points are far apart (the curved lines are just a bunch of straight segments) the eraser might pass between them. Try erasing a line from the very end of the line where there is guaranteed to be a point. I may well update this to interpolate properly between points.

[Joe Belmaati]

W2k SP4 latest Java Run Time release. Firefox 1.0.4

No problems on your test site. Very nice

[0beron]

OK version 0.2.0 is ready, download link in first post has been changed to point to the new file.

When updating the MOD I found there was an omission in the original MOD file for v0.1.0 so this may be the cause of the trouble for those of you that have tried to install it. Give version 0.2.0 a try and see what happens. The part that was missing was:

Code: Select all

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
'L_DELETE_POST' => $lang['Delete_post'],

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------
#
'L_ADD_SCRIBBLE' => $lang['Add_scribble'],
'L_REMOVE_SCRIBBLE' => $lang['Remove_scribble'],
'L_SCRIBBLE' => $lang['Scribble'],
'S_SCRIBBLE_STRING' => $scribble_string,


EDIT : this FIND/ADD should be done in posting.php

[DKing]

OK version 0.2.0 is ready, download link in first post has been changed to point to the new file.

When updating the MOD I found there was an omission in the original MOD file for v0.1.0 so this may be the cause of the trouble for those of you that have tried to install it. Give version 0.2.0 a try and see what happens. The part that was missing was:

Code: Select all

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
'L_DELETE_POST' => $lang['Delete_post'],

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------
#
'L_ADD_SCRIBBLE' => $lang['Add_scribble'],
'L_REMOVE_SCRIBBLE' => $lang['Remove_scribble'],
'L_SCRIBBLE' => $lang['Scribble'],
'S_SCRIBBLE_STRING' => $scribble_string,


in language/lang_english/lang_main.php

That wouldn't be in lang_main.php, right? Because that is the code that goes into the .php file not the language file

[0beron]

That wouldn't be in lang_main.php, right? Because that is the code that goes into the .php file not the language file

You're absolutely right - sorry I wrote that down without checking the file. It's in the right place in the MOD file anyway. If I get a chance I'll test the MOD on a clean phpBB install to make sure.

[Cybertims]

Download link broken