[New Plugin Updates] Drawing & Painting Canvas

Hi @balle.emil – sure, I’ll add this to my backlog and let you know when it’s ready!

Alex
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Hi @zeta1119 – yep, I looked at it, there seems to be some strange way Bubble is handling the links when they are set up with BB code on my documentation page. I’ve updated the page by adding the plain text links so you can copy them directly from the instructions tab and paste them in your browser. It should work now but let me know if you spot any other issues!

Alex

Great, thank you!! The links are working now.
Is it normal though that I get >40 issues to fix (a lot of missing elements etc.)?
Also the colour fields are deleted reusable elements:

Cheers!

Hi @balle.emil – I just pushed an update that should fix your issue.

Now, when a user presses “backspace” while the text element is focused in editing mode, it should not delete the text element.

Once you upgrade the plugin to the latest version it should work property. Let me know if you notice otherwise!

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@zeta1119 hmm… did you complete this step properly?

(2) Copy this other reusable element for the color picker and paste it into any page in your app: https://bubble.io/page?type=custom&name=Color%20Picker%202&version=test&id=pluginsbyalex&tab=tabs-1

It looks like your screenshot is missing that colorpicker reusable element.

Alex

Hi,
When I put the colour picker in the same page, that seems to work!
When I copy the group with the name “Draw & Paint Canvas Template”, so the group where the three templates are in:

then I get about 40 issues to fix:


Thx!

Here are some more issues:
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Thanks man! I have another question. Is it possible to select the quality of the png outcome? In my designer i have a fairly small canvas, but the png is to be projected onto a full a5 page and printed on paper. But the quality is in the low end.

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Hi, I have just installed your plugin and am using it to annotate a video! One issue I have is that I’d like a quick and easy way to clear my drawing in order to do another on another section of the video. It would be ideal if a Right click could be used to clear the current drawing. Is this possible at all?

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Im experiencing that the Icons you have added to the recent update dont have the option to create workflow. What is the intend of the icons?

hi @alex4 ,
did you see my two messages about the issues?
could we maybe arrange a video call where i can share my screen?
i’ve been trying for hours, but it doesn’t get better.
thanks and all the best

Hi @zeta1119 yep, I’ve been looking into it and will get back to you by the end of the day (EST).

Best,
Alex

Hi @balle.emil – I’ve just adding them and will have some tweaks to come. The Bubble plugin builder doesn’t have an way to expose the “start workflow” button you see on the native Bubble elements; however, if you go to the workflow tab, there is now an event called “Menu Icon Clicked” under the “Elements” submenu:

The icons were added to improve the UI of the templates on this page but I thought they could be helpful for all folks in case they need buttons for the canvas.

Again, this feature is new and I will be updating it over the next week or more.

Best,
Alex

Hi @zeta1119 – I’ve updated the instructions on the documentation page here.

The errors were caused by missing styles from the template app to yours. You will still see a few errors, but these will be associated with workflow events where you’ll want to connect them to your own database Things. For example, when you save the Canvas into a .png, you should save it to a Thing that you have created (I wouldn’t know what Thing you want to save it as).

Thanks for your patience and let me know if you have any other questions!
Alex
TechBlocks

Hi @alex4 - thank you, it seems to work fine now!

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Gotchu! I did use regular icons though and used workflows on them.
I can tell that you’re busy answering questions on this post - but im quiet eager to generate the png’s in a better quality, as requested in another post. Did you look into that by chance?

Kindly
Emil

@zeta1119 fantastic, great to hear!

@balle.emil I haven’t gotten to this yet but I will add it to my backlog!

You’re a star!

Hi all, just pushed another update to the Draw and Paint Canvas plugin –

Deleting an element (whether with the “DELETE” key or via workflow action) on the canvas now fires an event in case you need it to trigger other workflow actions based on this user action.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Alex