Re: Whiteboard

[Stephen Barncard]

One thing that ticks me off about software merchants that often in 
their ignorance or arrogance, they NEVER mention WHAT PLATFORM their 
software will run on, as if Windoze was the only game in town. Then 
if one is possibly interested in the utility or app, one has to 
laboriously plow through the advertising, web sites and pdfs to find 
out.


It turns out that both of these links lead to products that have some 
level of mac compatibility, but it took a bit of time to find out. At 
Promethean, the only clue was an icon for Mac OS 9 (smiling mac) 
which would indicate system 9. No MAC OS X logo was seen. For both 
there was absolutely no Macintosh version information. You see what I 
mean?


For such companies that seem to do this, I tend to want to go somewhere else.






Two popular products in the UK are :
Promethean 
Smart Board 


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stephen barncard
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Re: Whiteboard

[Marielle Lange]

Hi Ryno,


Has anybody here developed a whiteboard application


I have, for a client. And I went to BETT as well. I came back with  
loads of demo CD, information, and contacts of distributors of  
whiteboard software interested in having freelance developers  
contributing software for them.


In fact, a whiteboard application is very simply put a normal  
application. The only difference is that mouse movements don't work.  
Well, you use a pen and only mousedown and mouseup movements get  
detected. You can't detect the movement when the pen is, well, not in  
contact with the whiteboard. You also have to have zones of detection  
that are larger than in normal applications (I can give you the  
precise information, but something that corresponds to about 5cm on  
the whiteboard).


For the rest, you don't really have to take care of the annotation,  
draw shaping, etc. This is taken care of by the software sold with  
the whiteboard. What this software does is make a toolbar available  
to the end user, that appears comes on top of the application you write.


Two popular products in the UK are :
Promethean <http://www.prometheanworld.com/uk/>
Smart Board <http://smarttech.com/>

What I was told at BETT is that in the UK, 50% of the schools now  
have whiteboards. 25% in each single class. 25% in some classes.  
Often, they mix the two products above. To "project" on the  
whiteboard, teachers use a laptop (PC) connected in permanence to the  
web. Web connectivity in schools is now said to be highly reliable in  
schools.


Do list members know about the situation in other countries?

Marielle

Has anybody here developed a whiteboard application? Is anybody  
keen to

do so? Or willing to guide me through the process? I can get
schoolchildren involved.

What I am thinking of is something like this:

A chat application PLUS a window in which, to start with, the various
members of the chat can draw in black line and type in text, in  
turn or

simultaneously.

(If simultaneously a split-screen window would be an option, "click
here to save this board").

It would be wonderful for collaborative work, such as building a
whiteboard application: )

Ryno.



Marielle Lange (PhD),  http://widged.com
Bite-size Applications for Education





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Whiteboard

[swartart]

Has anybody here developed a whiteboard application? Is anybody keen to 
do so? Or willing to guide me through the process? I can get 
schoolchildren involved.


What I am thinking of is something like this:

A chat application PLUS a window in which, to start with, the various 
members of the chat can draw in black line and type in text, in turn or 
simultaneously.


(If simultaneously a split-screen window would be an option, "click 
here to save this board").


It would be wonderful for collaborative work, such as building a 
whiteboard application: )


Ryno.

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Re: Whiteboard help

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Cal (and any others who might be interested),

David Johnson and I have been working on a library called 'RevShare' 
which should do whiteboard as well as chat and different types of 
asynchronous sharing. I was supposed to have the beta out this year, but 
due to illness, it will probably be delayed until mid January. Fire me 
an email offlist if you're interested.


best,

Chipp


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Re: Whiteboard help

[Cal Horner]

Jerry,

If this W/B product can be encapsulated into a Revolution stack then it
might be of use. 

Personally, in my old age, I'm trying to get away from DLLs, xcmds, and
multiple languages encorporated into a project.

So, I would rather see what can be done with Revolution not PHP and MySql.

I'm sure there are people out in the cyberworld of software development that
have tried to build some whiteboard functionality into a stack.

Otherwise there would be only  one version of "hello World".
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Re: Whiteboard help

[Mark Wieder]

Cal-

Thursday, December 22, 2005, 8:20:42 PM, you wrote:

> This is probably a well-worn topic, but I seem to be unable to find anything
> about any Rev Developer attempting to or successfully develop a stack with
> the features of the whiteboard. Or, if you haven't built the w/b have you
> used its features in some stack?

Is this a reference to Writeboard?

http://writeboard.com

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Re: Whiteboard help

[Jerry Muelver]

Do you mean the Whiteboard Courseware System, at 
http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/ ?


I'm interested in courseware development and presentation tools. What parts 
of Whiteboard do find inadequate or in need of enchancement? I wouldn't care 
much to get involved in producing open source software that simply 
duplicates what existing open source software already does.For instnace, 
looking at OpenOffice I can't imagine any compellling argument for doing 
another office productivity suite.


 Jerry Muelver

- Original Message - 
From: "Cal Horner"

Subject: Whiteboard help


This is probably a well-worn topic, but I seem to be unable to find anything
about any Rev Developer attempting to or successfully develop a stack with
the features of the whiteboard. Or, if you haven't built the w/b have you
used its features in some stack?

If anyone reading this list should have been successful in developing 
something like the whiteboard, I'm sure that I and others would be 
interested in hearing about it.




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Whiteboard help

[Cal Horner]

This is probably a well-worn topic, but I seem to be unable to find anything
about any Rev Developer attempting to or successfully develop a stack with
the features of the whiteboard. Or, if you haven't built the w/b have you
used its features in some stack?

If anyone reading this list should have been successful in developing something 
like the whiteboard, I'm sure that I and others would be interested in hearing 
about it.
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Whiteboard Conferencing

[Jeffrey Reynolds]

Hi all,

I have been searching for a simple electronic white board solution to 
go with video conferencing like ichat av. I just want to be able to do 
some quick text typed and perhaps shapes that everyone could doodle 
with virtually.


I have not found a good solution with the mac (bitwise seems to be the 
simplest) so far and it dawned on me that this would be something that 
rev could easily do. so the first question is does anyone know of a 
good solution already out there or has anyone attempted this sort of 
thing with rev already? I realize it would probably need to be a web 
based solution, but it seems like something up rev's alley...


thanks

jeff reynolds

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