Monday, December 01, 2003

technically WriteFree Journal is an InkPicture, 2 toolbars, menus and image files for the template. All development was done on XP or W2K, sometimes with a tablet. The image files are Windows Journal templates exported to tiff and then converted to jpg (am not sure why i went to the trouble).
Most of the development was done using the designers in VS.NET.
R1 will be refactored and then will be refactored some more, it will be componetized so that we can reuse alot of the common stuff.
There will be an R2 and apart from thinking it may be more like OneNote than Windows Journal i don't know what its going to be like.
One of my fears about ink and winforms is that sometimes when you do particular things (zoom in and out for example) it stops behaving like ink and paper, it starts behaving like a windows computer (hanging and might bluescreen) .... that has to change. Paper never hangs and does not need saving (thats why auto save might make sense - in its own thread)

Other than that , i just need to get a break from work to test the thing and see what else i need to do to make it a useful program :)

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