[Drawkit] Introductory demo ??

[Eric Jarvies]

hello,

if graham has time over the next month, i will also make time, and  
will help document some basic, yet detailed drawkit tutorials,  
properly graphically illustrated.   ideally, if graham could reduce  
his workspace to 800x600, and use ishowu(i can loan my license for  
this purpose), and essentially record the process of him setting up  
this slim demo app, recording audio dialog(narrative), an so on.    
then i could take and edit the video/audio, organize the files, etc.,  
and create a nice, simple, yet powerful tutorial showing the meat and  
potatoes of drawkit.   if this is something that works for you graham,  
then let me know, and sometime over the next month we can arrange and  
organize this collaboration, and make it happen.

regards,

eric



On Jun 18, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Troy Rollins wrote:

> After spending some time with DrawKit and the demo app, I feel I'm  
> slowly making a bit of headway with it. However, I feel what is  
> missing is a simpler demo... almost a bare bones one. It would be  
> easier to disassemble and "get your head around" than the current  
> "monster demo", which has all the bells and whistles but is pretty  
> complex, and includes a lot of IB bindings which need to be  
> "untangled" mentally.
>
> I'd love to see a demo which...
> 1) Was not document based
> 2) Had no palettes
> 3) Had only the default menus
>
> Basically a window, with a DKDrawingView, surrounded by a few  
> buttons which demonstrate basic functionality...
> 1) Layer changing
> 2) Selection of a couple of different tools (maybe select/edit and  
> draw box)
> 3) Switching styles between a couple of pre-defined styles
>
> I think having something like this would lower the barrier to entry,  
> and allow newer xcode developers (like myself) to get their heads  
> around the fundamentals of the toolkit more quickly, and then be  
> able to advance into deeper examination afterward, and as their  
> application merits.
>
> From what I've seen, it looks as though this sort of demo could be  
> put together in under an hour, and it would benefit the users and  
> the community a great deal. Unfortunately, I don't know enough to  
> create it myself yet, but I'd be happy to create the basic interface  
> for it, if that would help.
>
> Would any more advanced users be willing to wire up such a project?  
> Does one exist somewhere already?
>
> TIA!
> --
> Troy
> RPSystems, Ltd.
> http://www.rpsystems.net
>
>
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