Drawdance is an alternative client for Drawpile, the collaborative drawing program. It is intended to run on desktop, phones, tablets and in the browser.

Currently supported are Linux and the browser. The initial goal is to provide a client for viewing, support for drawing and other platforms may be added later.

There'll be a proper description here eventually.

Until there's a proper writeup, check out scripts/cmake-presets for settings that work for me on Linux. You need gcc or clang, CMake, SDL2 and Ninja for that to have a chance of working out of the box. For the browser, you also need Emscripten installed and loaded into your environment.

On Linux, run the built executable from the root directory of the repository (the directory that this file is in.)

For the browser, you can use the server proxy and point it at your build directory. From the application, connect to ws://localhost:27751. Note that if you're not connecting to localhost, you need to have TLS certificates, the browser won't let you use an unsecured WebSocket connection.

To run the tests, use ctest --test-dir YOUR-BUILD-DIRECTORY after building. They don't work for Emscripten at this point.

Drawdance is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

You may also use original Drawdance code not based on other sources under the MIT license. You cannot relicense non-original parts! Therefore the software as a whole remains GPLv3 or later. See documentation in the source code itself for which parts are original and which are based on other sources. See the LICENSE-FOR-ORIGINAL-CODE file for the full license text.

The Drawdance logo is Copyright 2022 askmeaboutloom and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

https://drawpile.net/ - the official Drawpile website.

https://github.com/drawpile/Drawpile - Drawpile on GitHub.