Group Tool done

I finished rewriting the Grouping tool. It has multilevel grouping ability. That means you can put groups within groups. The group tool is needed to create 4 other tools I've designed. (Mask tool, Necklace tool, Kaleidoscope tool, String tool). A few days ago I rewrote the Necklace tool, because I found some better code for animating curved lines. I think it will be a week before the necklace tool is complete. I may even make this a separate little website script for my mothers site.

Group and Necklace Tool in the works

I'm starting the tools this week. I have my group tool almost working. In that same tool panel I put the necklace tool. Because a necklace is really just a group of beads. I'm making handles on the tool which change the shape of the necklace to more or less rounded around the bottom. It also adjusts the size. The idea is to drop the bottom bead first. Usually it is a pendant or something. Then drop beads on the right or left and have them fall down to the next position up from the bottom focal bead. So far it is working fairly well. I just have to be able to adjust the beads a bit. There seems to be a small gap there. Then I need to be able to remove beads from the necklace. That should be in by next week. Here is a pic of what I have so far.

VIrtual Projects

Now that we have the first few projects that are shared, I thought I would showcase them on the front page.

I have been steadily working on some help pages also.

Back in the mode

As stated in my previous posts, I had to take a few weeks off for family business. I've traveled over 4000 miles in the last 2 months. Plus was sick for 1 month straight. Crazy!

So for the last 2 weeks I've made up for it. I haven't added much new, except the selection box on the canvas.
I have fixed tons of little errors, and fixed our demo site at beadoroma.com to run html 5. Plus I made it simple to automatically put a favorites button when we add an item to the board.

• Check out our demo page
• I also spent a day working on some language files that could automatically be updated. I'm still testing them.
• I was told some help pages would be nice. So I'll be thinking about those soon.

This software is free if you check the box to be a tester. So please help. All you have to do is use it. It sends reports if errors are found.

I've moved to be with my sister for a few months. It took up alot of time away from developing software.

A few things have been upgraded, but not fully tested. Like the Grouping tool. I just have to make it save and reload now. I am also testing the features I have already. This summer I hope to find time to implement all the tools the first version had. But time will tell, family is first.

I have this page set up as an example of how linking back and forth to the board works.

I've been working on the desktop app creating items and making sure the store panel buttons work. I've found a few little mistakes that make big differences. I'm going to test it for a few more days and work on external linking. So far it's looking good.

I added a button to the desktop app that loads the users items where in the online app exclusive items would load.

Online Shared Projects

Open Project

Now that I have projects to load I am working on getting multiple items to load after visiting multiple pages and adding favorites. This should be done tomorrow. If all goes well I'll open it up to allow others to create items and project links.