Look
Light or dark
Match system follows the light or dark this computer is set to.
Style
Glass: see-through panes over a soft sky. Plain: solid and flat.
Palette
The colours of the whole Board. Writing on a page keeps its own inks.
Texture
A fine grain over everything, like paper.
Bubbles
Bubbles drifting up behind the panes.
Only the Glass style has bubbles.
Text
Type
The type the Board's menus, lists and buttons are set in. Text on a whiteboard keeps the default, so it looks the same to everyone on it.
Sound
Sounds when hovering over buttons
A soft tick as the pointer passes over a button.
Part of Buttons and switches, which are off.
Sounds
Every sound the Board makes, all at once.
How loud every sound is, the writing sound too.
Buttons and switches
A soft click as a button is pressed or a switch turned.
Around the Board
A window opening, another page, something saved or gone wrong.
On a whiteboard
The radial menu, undo, a shape put down, something deleted.
Writing sound
A pen on paper as you write.
Tune the writing sound
By ear, for the pen in hand, on this whiteboard.
Writing
How a whiteboard takes the pen, a finger and the mouse. Straightening, the grid and a
finger are in a whiteboard's ⋯ menu too.
Straighten shapes
Hold the pen still at the end of a line or a shape and it is laid straight.
Snap to the grid
On lined or squared paper, how firmly things drop onto its lines.
A light hand
Soft pressure still makes a full line.
Draw with a finger
On a touch screen a finger writes, instead of moving the page.
Turn writing into typed text
As you write, a pause turns the handwriting into typed text and equations (Alt+A).
Convert after a pause of
How long a pause, with the above on.
Pen buttons
What a pen’s side buttons do, set up with the pen in hand.
Mouse wheel
Zoom in and out, or move the page up and down.
The mouse can draw
Writes with the pen, highlighter and eraser - or only picks things up.
Left-drag on empty paper
Selects what it goes round, or moves the page (for a trackpad).
Right-click opens
The ring of tools round the pointer, or a list.
Tools on
Which edge of the page the tools sit on.
About
- Version
- GuideStar Board 0.1.0
- Kept
- In this browser only. Another browser or computer has settings of its own; nothing here is sent to the server.
- Keys
- Tab moves through a section, the arrow keys between choices and sections, Esc closes.
