Comments on: Dark Room Update (0.8b)

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:01:12 +0000

On Windows 7 Pro, the buttons included in the program do not work, windows 7 should have .net framework installed?

By: Carlos Velez

Carlos Velez — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:12:26 +0000

Hello,

I recently recommended DarkRoom to a friend because I am enjoying WriteRoom so much. He is having some kind of issue with Windows though. He asked:

“Darkroom lists Windows XP, and earlier. Doesn’t say about Windows 7 or Vista and doesn’t seem to have anybody to ask. Do you know?”

Thank you,

Carlos

By: Frank LaPlante

Frank LaPlante — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:58:42 +0000

Hello Jeffery,
I really enjoy the Darkroom tool.
It is one of the first tools I install when I have my laptop rebuilt or I get a new system.
With ADHD I find my self distracted too easily by all the candy that is on my desktop.
Darkroom allows me to get the typing done that I want. Thanks.
I would be interested in a feature such as hitting Control+T to add a time date stamp
(I am too lazy to F11 out to the desktop get the time and add it)
If you have a mailing list for updates, I would like to be added.
Thanks, your devoted fan.
-Frank

By: Nacho

Nacho — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:09:36 +0000

Hi everybody,

I’ve been trying DarkRoom and feel pleased with it. However, I usually work with 3 monitors and would like not only to display DarkRoom in fullscreen mode, but also to “blank” the other screens as well, so I’m not distracted with my other 2 screens.

I think every multimonitor user will thank this feature.

If not possible, do you know of another editor which supports this?

Yours faithfully,

Ignacio Renuncio.-

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:25:17 +0000

Darkroom for Windows – Thank you, this is extremely useful!

One improvement to recommend:

A command to adjust the “text column” width.

This would help especially, with today’s 9×16 wide-screen LCD monitors.

For example, the ability to:

Select the “text column width” — as percentage of screen width:

90% .. 80% .. 70% .. 60% .. 50% .. 40% .. 30%

Or similar functionality….

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:56:57 +0000

Oh, wow, after checking I see that this post is pretty old and that you’re now working on an Adobe Air implementation. Unfortunately that was exactly why I fled Write or Die — crippled Unicode support and terrible integration with Windows input methods (such as special keyboards). Thanks for keeping 0.8b online, I’ll stick with it.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:40:08 +0000

Thanks for this beautifully executed tool. Just like Jon above I have only two small usability suggestions, not new features:

1. Enable selection from further into the left margin area – i.e. if I click in the black area left of a line, select that line; if I double-click in the same place, select the paragraph.

2. When dragging text to move it elsewhere, have the cursor indicate the dropping place.

Thanks again for a job well done.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:31:42 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for DarkRoom! Simple. Elegant. A pleasure to use.

I like that you’ve kept it lean and have two small usability suggestions (not new features) that I’m hoping you’ll consider if DarkRoom is still in development:

1. Give an option for the ESC to quit the program rather than duplicate the Full Screen (F11) toggle. A quick way to exit that is less awkward that ALT-F4 would be great.

2. Off keyboard shortcuts for scrolling. Scrolling (without moving the cursor) is already supported and I see can be done either by using the mouse wheel or by clicking on either of the middle two navigation icons. That’s great, but both require using the mouse. I’d love to use say CTRL-UPARROW and CTRL-DNARROW (or even better allow the user to define the key combo) and scroll a long document using just the keyboard.

Anyway, just my $0.02. Thanks again for sharing your work! Cheers.

By: Flavio Jarabeck

Flavio Jarabeck — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:13:44 +0000

Not a bug, just an enhacement.

I managed to set DR to a light black transparency and in full screen, so I can see through DR and see also my desktop background that inspires me during my writing.

Wouldn’t be awsome if you manage to set a group of keywords for that writing session (i.e. “little, village, spain”) and DR would – in intervals to be set – change the images of the background (Windows desktop or DR itself) grabbing cool images from know sources like Flickr, Google images, etc?

I love to write a scene a have the inspirational clue of my desktop background. Today I’m doing it by myself before startign to write a scene, but DR could make it easier and automatically.

How about that?

Cheers from Brazil!

(if you plan to localize DR ping me to get DR in Brazilian Portuguese)

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:47:44 +0000

I’ve noticed an issue running this program on Windows 7 x64. Whenever I try to adjust preferences, the program responds by telling me it has been denied access to the .config file. The location of the file it states is correct however, and if, for instance, I change the text color to red, it will change the text color WHILE displaying the error. No auto-indent though.

Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks for the program, either way.