NetPen

NetPen is whiteboard that multiple people can draw and manipulate simultaneously over the network. With NetPen you and your friends can create various drawings in the same time on the same board.
Here are some key features of "NetPen":
· Any drawn element can be set to fade
· It uses a simple client/server model, only one port is used
· Any number of clients can connect to a host
· Allows many pen colors and shape color fills
· Has simple intuitive controls for lines, rectangles, circles, text, & textures
· Text can be in any font , just point the mouse and type
· Users can add images either by pasting (CTRL+V or CTRL+INS) or Edit->Load
· Images can be loaded either locally or from remote servers
· The background color can be changed from Edit Menu
· Objects can be brought to the front or sent to the back using Edit from the menubar or CTRL+F/CTRL+B
· Images can be copied and pasted to the same page or a diffent page using CTRL+C and CTRL+V
· Erase by using the Eraser or hit the delete key
· A grid can be toggled on or off using the Grid Control
· Use the Pointer to select and move items
· Escape clears all selections, CTRL+A selects everything
· Intelligent use of Bandwidth
· "Smart Mouse" drawing
· Multiple pages
· Texture widths can be set via the scroll wheel or
· Page zero is not saved or transmitted, it is an icon repository
· Negative pages are used as a drawing staging aread and are not transmitted, but they are saved.
· Objects can be locked in place (indicated by the red border) using CTRL+L as a toggle.
· A refresh button has been added on the toolbar just in case a client becomes out of sync with the server.
· Double Clicking a .pen file will now open up a NetPen whiteboard on that file
· The mouse wheel can now alter selected objects
Requirements:
· Java Runtime EnvironmentJava Runtime Environment 6 Update 3