Goddamn Drawboard Manual

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    1. Goddamn Operating Manual

    This is the standard Drawboard screen.

    As you see, it can be divided to three parts: blackboard, colorpicker and menu.

    1.1. Goddamn Blackboard

    There isn't much to write about. Blackboard is area, when you can draw. Color of your pen is selected with colorpicker, tool - by clicking menu. Normal cursor style is crosshair. When cursor is in "WAIT" mode, you have to wait for connection with server. NOTE: you can pick color by clicking with right mouse key on blackboard.

    1.2. Goddamn Colorpicker

    This is the colorpicker:

    It can be divided to five parts: rainbow, grayscale, old colors set, current color and new color preview.

    1.2.1. Goddamn Rainbow

    This is the hi-color palette. Click to set current color.

    1.2.2. Goddamn Grayscale

    This is the grayscale palette. It includes pure white and black colors. Click to set current color.

    1.2.3. Goddamn Old Color Set

    When you click a rainbow or grayscale, you select new color. This color is also inserted into old color set. Four earlier colors are moved one cell up (fifth, oldest color is lost). You can revert to one of the old colors by clicking selected square. In this case the color set won't be changed.

    1.2.4. Goddamn Current Color

    This rectangle shows current color. You can select new color by clicking rainbow, grayscale or old color set. When you drag mouse (with mousekey pressed), the current color changes in realtime.

    1.2.5. Goddamn New Color Preview

    This small rectangle shows the color under cursor. It helps you select new color.

    1.3. Goddamn Menu

    This is the standard menu.

    1.3.1. Goddamn Tool Select

    Freehand tool. Click and drag mouse to draw freehand line.
    Line tool. Click to set start of line, drag mouse to the end of line and relase the mousekey.
    Rectangle tool. Click to set one corner, drag mouse to the opposite corner point and relase the mousekey.
    Filled rectangle tool. See rectangle tool.
    Ellipse tool. Click to set center point, drag to define ellipse size and relase the mousekey.
    Filled ellipse tool. See ellipse tool.
    Text tool. Indicate place and use keyboard to enter characters

    1.3.2. Goddamn Thickness Select

    Click the desired line to set current thickness. The line thickness affects freehand, line, rectangle and ellipse tools.

    1.3.3. Goddamn People Counter

    Above the people icon there is a people counter. The number tells you, how many people are currently connected to the Drawboard. "1" means you are drawing alone. Counter is updated by every incoming ping packet. When connection is lost, counter is switched off.

    1.3.4. Goddamn Reset Button

    Click to reset whole image. The blackboard's background color is set to current color by default. If background image feature is used, this button will refresh the current background image.

    1.3.5. Goddamn Clipboard

    This is the cliboard panel:

    This important element is described in p. 1.4

    1.3.6. Goddamn Connection Indicator

    Connection to server estabilished.
    Data transfer in progress.
    Connection to server is lost. Watch Java console for error messages.
    If the connection is lost, applet sets the "WAIT" cursor style and tries to restore it. Remember: all, what you draw during disconnection phase, will be lost. At reconnect whole image will be re-fetched from server.

    1.3.7. Goddamn Copyright Information

    Click to watch "about" and copyleft license dialog box.

    1.4. Goddamn Clipboard

    This is the magnified clipboard panel:

    The clipboard is used for two reasons. First, you can prevent images from loss. Second, you can request saving image to file. As you see, clipboard panel can be divided to five parts.

    1.4.1. Goddamn Clipboard Selector

    You have three independent clipboards, marked 1, 2 and 3. The current clipboard number is indicated. Click number to select desired one.

    1.4.2. Goddamn Clipboard Preview

    Here can you see miniature of clipboard content. If there is no image inside, empty rectangle is showed.

    1.4.3. Goddamn Copy Button

    Copies current image to selected clipboard. Current clipboard content is lost. You can click this button at any moment.

    1.4.4. Show Goddamn Clipboard


    Click this button to see clipboard content. New window will appear. If your webmaster allows it, you can save image to the file on server.

    1.4.5. Empty Goddamn Clipboard

    By pressing this button you can empty selected clipboard. Current content will be lost.