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• Hold Alt to snap to axis of nearest panel

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• Press M to enter multi create mode
• Hold Alt and drag in create mode to multi create

• Ensure you are in select mode (press M to exit multi create mode)
• Hold Alt and drag to multi select panels
• When panels are selected, press ESC to deselect all panels

• Ensure you have panels selected (see above)
• Hold Ctrl and Shift and drag to move selected panels

• Ensure you have panels selected (see above)
• Hold Ctrl and Alt and drag to rotate selected panels

• Ensure you have panels selected (see above)
• Press C to create a string with selected panels
• Press ESC to deselect string

• Ensure you have a string selected (see above)
• Press L to enter link mode
• Click on a panel to start linking
• Click on another panel to finish linking
• Hold Shift when finishing a link to automatically start a new link
• Press L to exit link mode

• Ensure you have panels selected (see above)
• Press Delete to delete selected panels

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• Side UI Toggle
• Link Mode Toggle
• Change String Colour
• Select String
• Create String
• Cancel Selection
• Delete Selected Panels

• Create, update, and delete projects
• View project details
• Change project name
• Change project colour
• Invite users to projects
• View project members
• View project strings in data view in side UI

• Create, update, and delete strings
• View string details
• View string panels
• View string stats next to the selected string
• Link panels in link mode
• View links with line graphics
• Create a string with selected panels
• Change string colour
• Surrounding box for selected string
• Right click in selected string to open string context menu
  • View string details
  • View connecting Panel Links in String
  • Change String colour
  • Delete string

• Click to create a panel
• Alt click drag to multi-select
• Alt click drag in create mode to multi-create
• Create a string with selected panels
• Move, rotate, and delete panels on desktop
• Right click to open panel context menu
  • View panel details
  • View connecting Panel Links
  • Move to existing String
  • Delete panel
• Surrounding box for selected panels
• Right click in selected panels to open panel context menu
  • Create string with selected panels
  • Move all panels to existing String
  • Delete all selected panels

• Create Panel Links between panels in a string
• View Panel Links in a string in link mode
• View amount of vanel Links in a string in data view in side UI
• View amount of panels that are not linked in a string in data view in side UI
• Right click on panel link in link mode to open panel link context menu
  • View panel link details
  • View connecting panels
  • Delete panel link

• Sign in with Google

• Real-time user updates
  • User status
  • User search
  • User project updates
  • User friend status updates
  • User notification updates
• Real-time project updates
  • Project updates
  • Project member updates
  • Project string updates
  • Project panel updates
  • Project panel link updates

• View user profile
• View user projects
• Search for users by username with real-time updates
• View user settings
• Friends
  • Send friend requests
  • Accept friend requests
  • Reject friend requests
  • View friends
  • View friend requests
  • Invite friends to projects
• Notifications
  • View notifications
  • Dismiss notifications
  • Delete notifications

• Responsive design
• Context menus for desktop
• Side UI for desktop
• Mobile
  • Mobile friendly
  • Fullscreen side UI
  • Optimised dialogs for small screens
  • Touch controls
  • Zoom in and out
  • Pan around

• Change key bindings
• Toggle graphics settings

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New Features:

• Authenticated users can now choose a template when creating a project.
• Implementation of templates on the backend for authenticated users.
• UI changes for guest users, sign-in dialog replaced with initial-visit-sign-in-with-templates.
• Users can now see project templates before deciding to sign in.
• Added dialog warning that loading a template will override the existing project for demo users.
• Starter template selection dialog pops up when user logs in as a guest.
• Ability to load templates and update the app importing local json state saves.
• Addition of templates for starter projects; in demo account, project now saves to local storage and automatically loads on login.
• Creation of chat dialog for showing user messages and group chats.
• Message contracts ported to TypeScript in web-ui.
• Started messages-service for the backend.
• New dialog for user search in the side UI.
• Added Microsoft login.
• Users side UI filtered by last active.
• Member permissions visible in selected project members tab.
• Members with roles of owner or admin can now edit member permissions.
• Users can leave projects.
• Project Admins can now kick members from projects.
• Project Admins can now change member permissions.
• Project Admins can now change member roles.
• Project Admins can now delete projects.
• All project member edits are now reflected in real-time.

Changes:

• Update of UI for guest users. Removed side ui and replaced with a dialog for auth and projects.
• Updated roadmap and changelog in README.md.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where friend requests weren't being accepted due to Entity Framework tracking. Users now immediately see if a user is online after accepting a friend request.
• Fixed a couple of bugs related to the SkiaSharp library not working in deployment.
• Fixed an issue with screen breakpoints.
• Bug fix where sometimes friends weren't seen as online.

Removed:

• Removed GitHub login

New Features:

• Redesigned the desktop toolbar to include all action buttons from the mobile version.
• Mobile users can now create panel links without any glitches.
• Introduced a new side action bar for mobile users.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug with panel link lines mapping to random panels.

New Features:

• Redesigned context menus.
• Enabled mobile controls for moving panels, selecting, and multi-selecting.
• Moved the settings dialog to the side UI for mobile users.

Bug Fixes:

• Panel links are now saved to the database and can update in real-time over SignalR.
• Optimized large SignalR messages and put a limit on 30 max panels to be created at once. A message is displayed on the canvas when this limit is exceeded.
• Fixed an issue causing a failure in project creation when encountering an undefined string.

New Features:

• Improved project management in the side UI, allowing users to edit projects on desktop and mobile.
• Implemented new user profile cards when tapping on the preview.
• Enhanced dialogs, side UI data view animations, and introduced SVG animations.
• Provided a different view for mobile in the projects side UI, now featuring a right-to-left animation for changing pages.
• Client now saves all friend connections and can see when users come online or go offline.
• Improved mobile UI for the side UI nav bar.
• Added custom dialogs for mobile screens.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the issue where an undefined string was not created on project creation.
• Sorted the projects list by last updated, updating the "last updated" field for every item create, update, or delete.
• Improved notifications for mobile devices.

New Features:

• Added MessagePack to SignalR and included more options in the projects side menu.
• Enabled adding users to projects from the context menu. Built a reusable context menu component to streamline the process.
• Implemented the ability to invite friends to projects.
• Developed friend requests and notifications UI.
• Enabled accepting friend requests, viewing friends in the side menu, and improved notifications.
• Enabled sending friend requests and receiving notifications on the recipient side.
• Introduced notifications feature.
• Implemented search box querying for users and receiving responses via SignalR. Added a new users store.
• Added sign-in with GitHub.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the issue where an undefined string was not created on project creation.
• Redesigned Nginx proxy.

New Features:

• Added effects for when other SignalR users make an action, updating both displays.

New Features:

• Added SignalR for real-time updates between users.
• Added Google Sign in.

API Changes:

• Added a new PanelLink model to the API.

New Features:

• Added Link mode when string is selected.
• New menu options.
• Change graphics settings for canvas.
• Able to edit keybindings for app.

New Features:

• Create panels.
• Create strings.
• Switch between select and create mode.
• Multi create dragging in create mode.
• Multi select dragging in select mode.
• Zooming in and out.
• Dragging screen position.
• Moving panels.
• Rotating panels.
• Moving multiple panels while selected.
• Rotating multiple panels while selected.

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• Add in multiple panel dragging and rotation
• Add in settings menu
  • Add change graphics settings
  • Add edit keybindings
• More strings edit functionality
  • Open a dialog to display string settings
  • Change string colour
  • Edit string name
• More panels edit functionality
  • Edit panel config
  • Change panel data values that will change the total string stats
• Implement backend for app
  • Add auth
  • Add save/load
  • Add share projects with other users
  • Multiple users on the same project at the same time via SignalR
• Add in multiple auth providers
  • Add Google Signin
  • Add Github Signin
  • Add in Microsoft Signin
• Add SignalR
  • Add in real-time updates for projects
  • Add in real-time updates for users
  • Add in real-time updates for strings
  • Add in real-time updates for panels
  • Add in real-time updates for panel links
  • Add in real-time updates for project members
  • Add in real-time updates for project invites
  • Add in real-time updates for user notifications
  • Add in real-time updates for user friend requests
  • Add in real-time updates for user status
  • Add in real-time updates for user search
  • Add in real-time updates for other user mouse cursors
  • Add in real-time updates for other user selections
  • Add in real-time updates for other user panel movements
  • Add in real-time updates for other user panel rotations
• Invite users to project
  • View project invites in side UI
  • View project members in side UI
  • As an admin, be able to remove users from the project
  • Change roles of users in the project
  • Implement roles for users in the project
• Edit project details
  • Change project name
  • Change project colour
  • Change project description
  • Change project tags
  • Change project visibility
  • Change project permissions
  • Change project roles
  • Change project owner
• Add in UI for mobile
  • Add all actions in mobile menu for doing everything you can do with a mouse and keyboard
  • Optimise UI for mobile
  • Add in mobile controls for moving, selecting, and multi-selecting panels
  • Add in mobile controls for creating panel links
  • Add in mobile controls for creating strings
  • Add in mobile controls for creating panels
  • Add in mobile action bar for doing actions on selected panels and strings
  • Add in mobile controls for editing panels
  • Add in mobile controls for rotating panels
• Add in Connections
  • Add in user profiles
  • Add in user friend requests
  • Add in user notifications
  • Add in user settings
  • Add in user search
• Add in Dark Mode
• Add in more graphics settings
• Add in more keybindings
• Add in Azure Maps
  • Be able to type in an address and have it search for it
  • Be able to save the location and take a screenshot of the map
  • Save the screenshot to the user's project and be able to view it inside the app
• Add in more panel types

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This software uses the following open source packages:

• Angular
• Nx
• Ngrx
• Tailwind
• ASP.NET
• SignalR
• FastEndpoints

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Distributed under the Apache License. See LICENSE for more information.

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