The whiteboard needs (as of 020806) a number of enhancements, particularly to support annotation:
- Better support for "sticky" tools. Currently you can double-click a tools to make it stay on after an object has been created, but this is currently only indicated by a small dot on the button.
- Support for automatically selecting newly-created objects
- Separate tools for filled and outlined shapes
- Better color support:
- Allow grabbing of colors from existing objects
- Would also suggest need for swapping line/fill
- Make color selection "sticky"
- Multi-line text objects
- Has been implemented in a limited way for the concept mapping tools
- Tool for "pinning" figures (images, in particular) to the whiteboard background so that they cannot be selected/moved
- This would probably be generally useful, but depending on how annotation support was integrated it may not be necessary
These are done:
- Better color support:
- Make full range of colors available
- but still have swatches or popup for custom
- Show color of selected objects
- Support transparency
- Support for different line thicknesses
Options for annotation support:
- "Normal" whiteboard object, with support for adding a background object
- Annotation "container" object that includes:
- Property with path/objectid of background object
- Property for margin around background object
- Multiple whiteboard objects, each a separate layer, optionally with different permissions
- Chat object or per-whiteboard notes (or objects linked to figures, selected using NavigableObject mechanism)
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