Transparent mode
hesan-aminiloo opened this issue · 4 comments
Hey! I think it's a good idea to support a transparent mode where you can draw on a canvas that overlays the active screen.
This way we can highlight or explain something that we're seeing on the browser or somewhere else. I can say the problem or challenge might be that on macOS when an app goes to fullscreen mode, no other apps can be opened on top of that.
Hi,
interesting idea! I'll definitely look into it. I did saw someone else implement this with tauri, so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to implement. I think MacOS users should just maximize the window, rather than go to fullscreen. I use MacOS myself and as you said, no other windows can go on top or below once going fullscreen, so there's no way MacOS users can use this in fullscreen mode. We just have to deal with it.
Yeah great, I tried to implement something like this with Electron a while ago, maybe I forked this repo and tried to implement it myself to see how far I can go 😊
Thanks for this great app.
@hesan-aminiloo I just implemented the feature in basic form at the new feature/transparency branch, which you can test. It works great on my Mac. I've only enabled it inside a paper, not the library. So on the top right there's a new transparency icon which you can click on to toggle transparency mode.
I do have to change the way the eraser works. The eraser is basically a brush where you draw with the background color. I have to think about how to do this when there's transparency involved. I couldn't use masks before, because I had to rewrite the structure, but I already rewrote it, so I think I can use masks, although they're quite annoying to work with.
After spending lots of hours on this, I've noticed that this will make the drawing logic unnecessary complex, therefore I've decided to not implement this.