Miscellaneous Tips

Things you may not know

 

The History Viewer

From the View menu, selecting the "History viewer" will bring up the replay dialog. Pressing play will start to re-play your drawing history from the currently selected sheet. This is most noticeable with the Pen tool.

Drag and Drop

Any file type Whyteboard supports can be dragged and dropped into the drawing panel to be loaded, rather than through the Open file dialog.

Scrolling the canvas with the mouse

By holding down your mouse's middle button, you can scroll around the canvas without needing to use the scrollbars.

Collapsing the side panels

The tool bar and thumbnail/notes panels have a button at their top with an arrow on it; clicking this folds the panel into the side of the application, showing more room in the drawing panel.

Copy and Paste

Using the Bitmap Select tool, regions may be selected to be copied as a bitmap. This can then be pasted into other applications. Similarly, Whyteboard can paste in bitmap data stored on the clipboard. Text may also be pasted into Whyteboard, creating a Text shape.

Renaming your sheets

A sheet can be right-clicked upon in the tab view (under the tool bar icons) and renamed.

Undoing a closed sheet

Whyteboard remembers your last 10 closed sheets - if you accidentally closed one then you may open it again from the Sheets menu.

Rearranging Sheets

You can "drag and drop" the tabs to change their order. This is useful to restore a closed tab to its original position

Editing Text

Using the Select tool, you can double click on drawn text to bring up the text edit dialog.

Editing a Note

From the Notes tab in the right-hand panel, a note can be edited by double clicking upon it, or right clicking and selecting "edit". The edit can be cancelled at any time. Also, a Sheet in the tree view can be "jumped" to by double clicking it, or right clicking and selecting "switch to".

Exporting your Image

From the File menu, the Export menu item will save the current sheet's drawing as an image to your hard drive. This can be also accessed by right clicking a sheet in the tab view.

Saving your files

Your currently selected: tool, colour, thickness, font and selected sheet are saved into the .wtbd file.

Clearing Sheets

There are 4 sheet clearing options: clear drawings/clear sheet/clear all drawings/clear all sheets.



The "all" option applies the clearing to every sheet. These can be undone, but the "all" option must have each sheet selectively restored; undoing clearing all will only restore the currently selected sheet.