Desktop Doodle 🎨🖌️

Version 0.1 – Your always-on-top sketchpad

Desktop Doodle is a lightweight, floating, always‑on‑top sketchpad for Windows.
Draw, erase, type text (it now supports RTL languages too), and edit images with a clean, custom‑styled interface.
Designed for quick notes, annotations, mockups, or just doodling over your desktop.

Desktop doodle works in two modes:

• Freehand: just click and drag as always.
• Straight line: hold Shift while dragging. You'll see a dashed preview, and when you release, a solid straight line is drawn from the start point to the end point.
• This feature works with both Pen and Eraser.

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Figure 1: A snapshot of the app: DesktopDoodle, version 0.0, while painting.

Figure 2: A snapshot of the new version of the app: DesktopDoodle, version 0.1, while defining data pipeline.

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✨ Features

• Floating & Always‑on‑Top – Never lose your sketch behind other apps.
• Drawing Tools – Pen (adjustable width), Eraser, Text with font and rotation.
  All tools support opacity control (0–100%) for soft blending and ghostly effects.
• Opacity Control – A dedicated slider lets you set the transparency of the pen, text, and bucket fill independently of the colour.
• Flood Fill – Lightning‑fast bucket fill with full alpha support.
• Color Picker – Left‑click for pen colour, right‑click for background colour.
• Selection & Editing – Select, move, resize, rotate, flip, cut, copy, paste.
• Undo/Redo – Full history (up to 20 steps).
• Zoom & Grid – Zoom in/out, toggle‑able pixel grid.
• Canvas Sizing – Preset sizes (Full HD, HD, A4, A3, etc.) or custom dimensions.
• File Support – Save as PNG, JPEG, BMP; load images and annotate.
• System Tray – Minimise to tray and restore with a double‑click.
• Custom Cursors – Unique pen, eraser, and eyedropper cursors.
• Keyboard Shortcuts – Ctrl+Z/Y, Ctrl+C/X/V, Shift for straight lines, Ctrl+Arrows for rotation.
• Beautiful Gray Border – Gives you room to draw right to the edge.

🖥️ Usage

• Move the window – drag the title bar.
• Resize – drag the bottom‑right corner grip.
• Hide – click the ✕ button (app minimises to system tray).
• Show – double‑click the tray icon or use the tray menu.

Drawing

• Select a tool from the toolbar (Pen, Eraser, Text, Select).
• Click and drag on the canvas.
• For text: click where you want the text, type, and press Enter (or Shift+Enter for new lines). Move/resize the text box using the grip in the bottom‑right corner.

Selection

• Use the Select tool to drag a rectangle.
• Use Cut / Copy / Paste to modify the selection.
• Drag the selected area to move it.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Y	Redo
Ctrl+C	Copy selection
Ctrl+X	Cut selection
Ctrl+V	Paste (then click to place)
Ctrl+→ / Ctrl+←	Rotate selection ±5°
Ctrl+R	Rotate selection 90° clockwise
Shift + drag	Draw straight line
Enter	Commit text (when typing)
Esc	Cancel text input

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Y	Redo

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This archive includes the executable program: DesktopDoodle.exe, which is suitable for Windows 10 and over. You should click on the executable to run.

Download the archive for win64