Sketch Comics - a Laszlo Application - Really Cool Website

[tiago.cardoso]

http://www.mainada.net/comicssketch

Ok, new version! :D Gamma V2.0.

Check it out ;)


(new: digg it http://digg.com/software/Open_Laszlo_Web_Application_-_Sketching_online )

This is a website done in Ruby on Rails and as lots of Laszlo applications.
It takes laszlo to a new level of interactivity.

This was developed by inEvo (www.inevo.pt), a R&D company in Portugal.
For a while now we develop new and innovating apps in Laszlo and find this framework of high value.
We have done this site to test and improve our skill in some technologies like Rails, Laszlo, xml parsing, SVG, sketch figure recognition (not yet at work), osga (OSGA.NET) and CALI.

Site description:

This is a new enterly free site for users and guest to come a draw humor sketches and comic strips.
You can draw online and immideatly everyone else an the world with a net connection can see it.

It's good for artists that want to show their talent and work and don't know much about creating a website or putting their drawing online.
And as it's all centralized, you can go there and see other people work and know what's beeing done recently.

On the other hand, it also great to average people that love carttons and humorist sketchs to go and see always new cartoons.

It would be great if there is any chance for everyone of you to tell about it to your friends and thru your site (link section or any other section you wich).
Please, feel all free and challenged to go there, register and create comics as you will.

Our site is far from finish, but it's already has many features.

Once again, here is the site URl:

http://www.mainada.net/comics

Enjoy! :)

[boutinm]

This project caused flash plugin to abort because it was running too slow. I tested it in Firefox 1.0.7

[chas]

yeah i agree, flash is loading too slowly....i think you still have html design for flash....

EDIT: this is a nice

http://www.juicystudios.com/

however, it keep streaming audio unbeknownst to the viewer....keep in mind bandwidth usage when designing your apps please :D

interactive doesnt mean expensive lol

[tiago.cardoso]

Hey,

your right. It is slow and can possibly ask the user if he wants to stop the script.. just say no and it will run nicely.

The problem is that it is downloading all strokes performed by the user .. in the comics.. therefor, it's is a great deal of information and after it will still render those strokes.

If it's a bigger and complex comics, it will get slow.

I'm thinking on creating images with the drawing. As they are quite small (150 px of height) it will download and present much quicker and nicer.. it's like a cache ;)

This project was done by only on guy at partial(partial) time, so it will take a while.
But maybe in the next version. :)

ps. i din't understand much of your talk about streaming.. it's not necessary here. But the site look nice ;)

[boutinm]

Seems when I loaded it this time I didnt get the same script error. I love the idea as well as the "rate this" at the bottom. Good job!

[tiago.cardoso]

Hello... just to mention that this new version Beta v1.0 is optimized and none of those problems should happen :)

It has a lot of new drawings, so enjoy.

If you have any sense of humor, try to do something.. it's fun.

Take Care.

[tiago.cardoso]

Please, digg this story ;) It's openlaszlo related.

http://digg.com/software/Open_Laszlo_Web_Application_-_Sketching_online

Thanks ;)

[tiago.cardoso]

:D new features :D

It's in the version 1.4 now.
THeres a new comics strip draw editor.. in laszlo as always ;) (hope you like it)
THe viewer as now a replay option and you can select the replay speed.

It's all in svg now, so it was easy to create thumbnails.
Now there are Thumbs of the latest comics and the top 9! :D

For those who want to folow recent comics, there is a rss feed. :) Right next to Latest Comics. Subscribe it ;)

Take care.


By the way, the URL is new: http://www.mainada.net/comicssketch/

[cekcak]

i saw your site and wonder how you do rating component (with starts)

[Jiben]

Your site is like Oekakis which are famous online drawing boards in Japan, also in France now! It's a challenge to do so in Laszlo but why not? For your comics strip editor, you can get inspired from Shipainter Pro which is the best (Java).

[tiago.cardoso]

Hope you enjoy the new version Gamma v2.0. It as a lot of new features and it still uses openlaszlo.