mDraw - Realtime Collaboration Tool

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About

The mDraw is a Realtime Drawing Collaborative Tool for any project from research to concept mapping. This project was forked from TheMatisse a great foundation however outdated with a number of issues. Sadly, it was abandonded. We brought it up to date, enhanced it and are maintaining it under the fork mDraw. Currently, the server acts as a message broadcaster using socket.io, i.e. it receives a message from the client and sends it out to all other clients.It consist of 3 parts that you can choose:

• Shapes
  • Element
    • Rectangle
    • Circle
    • Triangle
    • Text
    • Line
    • Path
• Controls
  • Element
    • Label
    • Button
    • Text Box
    • Check Box
    • Radio Button
    • SelectBox
    • List
    • Password
    • Scroll Bar
• Componets
  • Element
    • Table
    • Div
    • Image
    • Slider
    • Progress Bar

Client API

sendDrawMsg = function call(); responsible for sending data and coordinates in the html canvas from the client to the server. Passing it to the server function eventDraw.

Frameworks/Technologies Used

• NodeJs
• ExpressJs
• Redis
• Jade

Running the App

1. Download and Install the current version for [node] (http://nodejs.org)
2. Downlaod and Install Redis Server
   • For Windows
   • For Ubuntu - sudo apt-get install redis-server
   • For [Mac] (http://redis.io/download)
3. On the root folder install node module dependencies

• npm install

4. Run the App

• node app.js

Now you can open the http://localhost:8000 to open the home page.