Wade Brainerd wrote: > BTW, if any of you guys playing around with Colors! have access to > multiple XOs, I would love to hear how the collaboration feature is > working (and what you think about it). > > -Wade
I just tried the pre-release v12 of Colors! in collaboration mode with 2 XOs, both running Wacom graphics tablets via an ejabber server (xo1share.org). It was pretty cool watching strokes from one Colors! Activity appear on the other: * The display update seems to be by continuous stroke: XO #1 user draws a curve not lifting pen. After the stylus is lifted from the tablet the stroke updates on XO #2. * The mouse would need to be moved on the other XO for the screen updates to propagate. * The colors and brush parameters are common to both XOs although the display of the settings widget (color and brush type) did not update with changes from the other side. * Since the cursor is shared between the two activities, it would be better if drawing on one Activity moved the corresponding cursor on the other XO. * Erasing the screen was only an option on XO #1 (the inviter) *but* the clear screen did not propagate to the other XOs so further drawing on XO #1 was not in sync with the images on XO #2. Suggest that clear image be propagated with the option to do a local save to Journal on XO #2 so that work is not lost if they wish to keep it. * It would be really cool if each XO had its own pointer with brush/palette/... options. One mode that would be nice might be a sort of side-by-side version where each XO would be able to draw its own part of the screen (by mask, not necessarily by rectangle) so the students could work on a joint drawing. * A mural mode would be excellent with a large virtual drawing area and each XO able to pan around and draw wherever.... * The mouse drawing problem was also visible in collaboration. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
