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Foil 10 Shared White Board Functionality

From HPDC95 Collaboration Presentation HPDC95 Tutorial Pentagon City -- August 1 1995. by Roman Markowski and Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

A virtual drawing board shared by all members of the conference
Allow users to simultaneously markup and edit a virtual whiteboard
Whiteboard is automatically shared with the other participants
The contents (entire or selected region) of the Whiteboard can be saved, printed and "cleaned".
Functionality
  • A pointer(mouse) can be seen by all participants as one member moves over screen
  • Drawing: Freestyle lines, Straight lines, rectangles, ellipses, squares and circles with various fill options as in say Aldus Freehand.
  • Move and copy selected objects
  • Eraser
  • Color and line width choice
  • Color and font of text can be chosen
  • Graphics files can be loaded from disk or dragged/dropped from File Manager
  • QuickPic utility allows snapping of images from the whiteboard and other parts of screen



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