[Drawkit] New Beta drop now available

[Alex Curylo]

On 14-Apr-08, at 8:41 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
> Hi all (anybody?)
>
> I've just posted a new beta of DrawKit to the site. This represents a
> much better quality drop than the first one, and a great deal of hard
> work! Check out the release notes in the SDK download for more
> details. http://apptree.net/drawkitmain.htm

Thanks!

> I would like to know if anyone is using or planning to use DK in the
> near future, so I can gauge the potential user base and help plan some
> priorities for the coming months - so please let me know by replying
> on this list.

Perhaps you've heard of VideoClix which does clickable Web videos, we  
just partnered up with Revision3?

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080414/videoclix-and-revision3-team-up-to-change-internet-tv-as-we-know-it/

The new Cocoa rev of our hotspotting tool I'm using extractions from  
DrawKit to handle the layout view. Ludicrously overpowered for what I  
actually need, but I liked the architecture. Thanks!

Unfortunately, this version is an inhouse tool which won't ever get  
distributed publicly. There's some mumblings about wanting a web  
version in Flash or something, but that won't be my problem. Indeed,  
the above mentioned Cocoa version will no longer be my problem very  
soon, as in -- let me check -- 19 hours and 6 minutes from this  
moment. So I'm probably not going to have time to apply any relevant  
beta 2 updates, never mind any further versions :)

What I'm planning to do as of tomorrow night is jump headlong into  
Cocoa Touch development, so if I get to vote on future priorities   
what I'd like to see is a version that's compatible with that. The  
first idea that comes to mind is an on-iPhone tool for annotating  
snapshots with text/voice balloons before uploading them to Flickr and  
the like, kinda like a Comic Life nano.

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