We released some significant changes in the last few days:
- Improved shape recognition engine: We’ve made the algorithms smarter, so you should find Dabbleboard detecting the right shapes more often, hopefully always. Let us know if you still find wrong shapes being detected (e.g. triangle when you wanted a rectangle).
- New selection system: It was always a pain to hold down the Shift key when needing to select multiple objects. Now when you click in any empty space, you’ll find a tool that you can click to select a rectangular area. And just click objects to add or remove them from the selection. To deselect everything, just click in any empty space.
Background: We never liked having to hold down the Shift key, but couldn’t figure out the right solution to the multi-selection problem. We really didn’t want to add a Select tool to the toolbar like all other drawing apps (we almost gave up and gave in though!), because it’s annoying to keep returning to the toolbar when switching between drawing and selecting. After literally months of going back-and-forth with various ideas, we had a Eureka moment with this one. It seems obvious now, and we feel stupid for not finding this solution sooner, but we’re glad we finally did. - Save button: This is for all of you that need to push the button to feel safe. Right now, we’re still saving the drawing continuously as well (when it says “Saving… Saved”), but soon we’ll stop doing that. We’ll still auto-save every-so-often (like Gmail or Microsoft Word) but not every second like now.
