Marboard

This tool is marked as BETA. This implies it is still under construction and may contain bugs or be feature incomplete, however it may still be playable so please have a go!

Screenshots

What is Marboard?

Marboard is an early prototype of an easy to use vector graphics program allowing live collaboration over the Internet. While it is not ready for production use yet, it is a good proof that Marauroa is suitable for serious applications, too.

Marboard is an early prototype, not ready for production use, yet.

You can find more information about the current state of development, and how you can contribute, on Marboard's Wiki page.

Manual

You can read Marboard's manual here

Download

(binary) released on 2010-02-23
marboard-client-0.11.zip
This file contains the Marboard client. Download this to test it.
(server script binary) released on 2010-02-23
marboard-server-0.11.jar
This file contains the Marboard server files.

Change Log

Marboard 0.12

Fixed build script

Marboard 0.11

added change log (this file)
added a progress bar on load of a .marb file
throttled loading

Marboard 0.10

implemented loading of .marb files
added preview in tool bar for color and fill color
added color chooser dialog

Marboard 0.09

preview during drawing of lines or rectangles
implemented save to .marb files

Marboard 0.08

bugfix: toolbar icons

Marboard 0.07

added support for filled shapes
added filled rectangles as new shape
added toolbar to select dot, line, rectangle

Marboard 0.06

added new drawing tool for staight lines
added menu to select a drawing color
added menu to select a thickness
completely rewrote the drawing code to use Swing JComponent instead of AWT Canvas
fixed drop-down menu behind window
fixed flicker on update
fixed crash of X-Windows (!) on resize

Marboard 0.05

added menu bar
removed right click to clear the board

Marboard 0.04

fixed one of the causes for flickering screen on MS Windows

Marboard 0.03

tried in vain to fix flicker on MS Windows

Marboard 0.02

fixed class cast exception on logout

Marboard 0.01

first prototype release
implemented a basic server
implemented a basic client-gui.
added two types of entities: meta entities for objects like users and shapes for everything visible
added support for z-index on the server side
draw some dots on server start
generate a random account on program start and automatically login
added support for displaying different colors and thicknesses
added left click to draw a red dot (hack the client to draw in other colors)
added right click to clear the board
added build.xml script
added support for automatic tests and coverage report on Hudson

Authors

Marboard has been developed by:

hendrik, kymara, madmetzger, kiheru