Moodle

linking the various PaintWeb related issues

fyi - the code can be found at http://repo.or.cz/w/moodle/mihaisucan.git

For anyone wishing to try Paintweb in Moodle 2.0, please visit the test site http://test.moodle.org/paintweb/

Hi,
Sorry for my bug report in this format and not as separate tickets. Was testing the paint tool out at test.moodle.org and thought you would appreciate this better than nothing.

"Confirmed: the rich text editor does not show on Google Chrome on Linux when creating new post, but appears when the post is edited.

Oh, the icon for PaintWeb is great now, and overlapping the tinymce toolbar border makes it more noticeable. Great!

Sorry for ruining your fun by being boring and spotting bugs, just thought it would be helpful if I wrote them down at least somewhere

• Olli Savolainen"

Hey Olli!

Thanks for your bug report.

1. The rich text editor does not show on Google Chrome on Linux when creating a new post, but it appears when the post is edited - I think i noticed this some times. That's a bug more related to the TinyMCE integration into Moodle 2, which was heavily worked on. And Petr plans to do more work on it.

2. Yep, icon is now fixed.

3. The bug that shadows do not render in Google Chrome is known. The problem does not affect Safari, even if it uses the same rendering engine. Here's the upstream bug report:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11153

(maybe you can place a vote for the bug, by starring the issue, hehe)

4. Regarding the undo issue, please try to reproduce the bug and provide the exact steps. This is too vague and I don't know what could have went wrong.

5. Regarding the border width and the font size errors .... please tell me more details. Are you using Google Chrome on Linux? Which version and build? It should be noted Google Chrome is quite ... alpha/unstable. At times the ellipse tool failed to work in Chrome on Linux, then it got fixed, and etc. The browser is not a very good measure for PaintWeb due to their bugs.

Please retest in a different browser and let me know if those work or not - reproducible steps are best. These work for me.

6. The fill tool? You can have text drawn with a fill, see the Border tab, shape type: filled, strokes only, or both. The bucket tool is missing at the moment and it's planned.

7. Text cannot be split across multiple lines, at least not now.

8. By pressing Escape while the Text tool is active you go back to the previous drawing tool. Suggestions for a better user interaction are welcome.

If you want, you can use the PaintWeb issue tracker at Google Code, so we do not clutter this place. If you decide to do so, please post only one issue report for each problem you encounter. If that is too much trouble, then please reply here.

Thank you very much again!

Mihai, please don't worry about cluttering the tracker! Much better to report issues in the tracker so that the Moodle community can easily watch, vote and comment on them.

Thanks Helen! Great! Then maybe Olli could report the issues he finds in this tracker for PaintWeb? I was thinking that having separate reports for separate issues makes it easier for others to search them - better than to have them all in one issue report as comments.

You're right Mihai, separate issues would be helpful. Let's try and keep this issue to the subject title, so I'm going to keep quiet from now on

Mihai - It sounds like have a component in the tracker may be helpful to you. That way Olli and others who wish to create or report any issues, feature requests, etc. can do so through the Moodle tracker (now that GSOC is completed). By all means, feel free to create whatever issues you need. I have set you as the component lead so that those issues will automatically be assigned to you. For now, I have created the Patch: Paintweb component (http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB/component/10531) on the CONTRIB side but once the code is officially in HEAD then we can create a component in the tracker's MDL project. Please do not hesitate to let me know if there is anything I can do or if you need anything. I am grateful for your continued work on improving PaintWeb and look forward to seeing it in Moodle 2.0 as a great example of what can happen with a GSOC project. Peace - Anthony

Great. Thank you very much Anthony.

Sorry again for the ambiguousness of my bug report. I will try to be more specific with the earlier comments when I have a chance to check it out again. (It seemed to be relatively easy to break it so I thought I would give you pointers on what sorts of playing is still problematic and you would likely find them yourself - but I will try to present steps for reproducing them.)

Further accessibility tips for the color picker that came up in another discussion (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=130005 ), though I do not have a specific suggestion to give you right now:

http://wearecolorblind.com/patterns/picking-colors/

Hello again Olli!

Don't worry about the bug reports (there's more than one ), take your time.

Thanks for the tips about the color picker.

Unfortunately it is not looking likely this will make it into 2.0, sorry. It might, but 2.1 is more likely.

Hi MartinD! Last we worked on this, the code was in good shape for a merge into HEAD. Maybe we dropped the ball in actually merging it.

Would be good to hear from Mihai whether he's got time to handle bugreports following a merge into HEAD, during the stabilisation towards the 2.0 release.

If it's too late for v2.0, I'll coordinate with him and you to merge this right after the branch point.

What is the schedule for the release of Moodle 2.0?

I think i could squeeze time for bug reports, if the paint tool code is merged into HEAD. The sooner the code is merged, the better.

Given the time constrains and that I have a lot of work to do for Mozilla, I would appreciate if someone else would volunteer to take PaintWeb integration forward into Moodle 2.

PaintWeb now runs well in MSIE 9, as I expected when I wrote the code, without any important changes in the code. It would be perfect timing for further work on PaintWeb and for Moodle integration.

Like I ask on the HTML editor forum (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=181235) is there a roadmap for the release of this or is the last comment from Mihai mean this project is wayting for somebody completing the job before being abble to integrate officially PaintWeb to the core of Moodle?

Thanks for the info... JF

Jean: yes, that is correct.