Chat online with a two-way interactive sketching whiteboard

[jrsjrs]

I have been trying to find the software that would enable me to not only type in my chatting from the keyboard, but also allow me to draw in technical sketches with my mouse or a stylus at the same time.

The website that best demonstrates this technique is at -
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Click on the "Take a tour" link to see the demo of this interactive learning feature that they use.

The features of the above online tutoring system include:
Instant messaging: communicate with your tutor through online chat
Interactive whiteboard: draw problems on a shared whiteboard
Shared web browsing: browse the web together
File sharing: send your papers and other files to a tutor for review

Does anyone know how this is done?
Is this software commercially available somewhere?
I checked Sourceforge but was not able to get any leads.
Thanks for any information or help!

[RedSon]

jrsjrs,

Posting links to other sites and writing posts like this is spamming. If you want to discuss how to create a web based collaboration white board solution then that is fine, but linking to a site and telling everyone how great it is makes me think you might have an interest in it.

You are a productive member and have contributed to many other posts so that is why this thread did not get deleted and your account is still active. Please refrain from linking to commercial websites and basically writing advertisements for them.

I do encourage you to continue your discussion on web based collaboration suites I think it is an excellent topic.

Hopefully someone has some knowledge in this and will be able to give you some information.

-MODERATOR

[jrsjrs]

Very Sorry.
It was thoughtless of me to post that website address,
but I thought that it would be the easiest and quickest way
for everyone to see what I was wanting to program.
I was not promoting the contents of the website,
I was merely pointing to a programming example that
I have only found on that one website and no other.

Having explained that, I hope there is enough description in
my posting that everyone understands what I would like?

I would like to add a mouse drawing option into my website
chatroom discussions because it is nearly impossible to talk about
something like an electrical circuit without a sketch or diagram.

Can we focus back on my request. My error was unintentional.
My thanks to anyone who can give me some help here.

[RedSon]

Very Sorry.
It was thoughtless of me to post that website address,
but I thought that it would be the easiest and quickest way
for everyone to see what I was wanting to program.
I was not promoting the contents of the website,
I was merely pointing to a programming example that
I have only found on that one website and no other.

Having explained that, I hope there is enough description in
my posting that everyone understands what I would like?

I would like to add a mouse drawing option into my website
chatroom discussions because it is nearly impossible to talk about
something like an electrical circuit without a sketch or diagram.

Can we focus back on my request. My error was unintentional.
My thanks to anyone who can give me some help here.

Its no problem, I just needed to explain it to you so you know what is going on. I think your description was adequate for what you were looking for. And by all means we should focus on your request.

[gits]

hi ...

just some loud thoughts about it:

this a very interesting thing, especially when it should be a webpage :) ... the chat is a little bit common and could be done with typical and common web-technologies (a serverside language, some HTML/CSS/JavaScript for the client interface) ... but the whiteboard is a tricky thing ... even the collaborative browsing feature. the first one would need a web-aware component like an java-applet (since HTML/CSS/JavaScript couldn't provide drawing abilities). this component has to store the current drawing and deliver it to all the connected users ... may be they share a session or something like this. the second one needs a similar session-sharing ... so the user may surf the pages through a kind of proxy of the provider of the application ... and the viewed pages are delivered to the connected users again. ...

the whiteboard would be the most tricky thing i think ... depending on the interactabilty ... the client could poll regular for updated drawings ... in case somebody is drawing it could be locked and the user gets a message/hint that user x draws something. when user x is ready you could unlock it and the next polls would retrieve the updated version.

kind regards