# \[WIP\] reply by drawing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/wip-reply-by-drawing/39080>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** broken\
**Created:** [5. Februar 2016 um 02:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wip-reply-by-drawing/39080 "2016-02-05T02:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![featheredtoast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/featheredtoast/32/116994_2.png) [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)\
**Post date:** [5. Februar 2016 um 02:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wip-reply-by-drawing/39080/1 "2016-02-05T02:30:49Z")

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I don’t know if this has been attempted yet, but here’s a very quick WIP hack together of a small plugin that will allow you to draw a reply in a canvas. I got jealous of google hangouts so I wanted to hack something similar into discourse.

It’s not yet functioning, so I’m throwing it under broken-plugins (it also has pretty primative drawing methods, and starts with some test data already filled in the canvas). I stole a lot of modal view and such from the [replygif plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replygif-adding-reaction-gif-easily/33195). Credit where credit’s due. 😉

The broken part is – I’m not _quite_ sure how to shove the base-64 png data across the wire as a file upload just yet (it just prints the data in the console and the compose window for now). Any pointers or suggestions to actually perform an upload would be great!

[https://github.com/featheredtoast/discourse-plugin-draw-reply](https://github.com/featheredtoast/discourse-plugin-draw-reply)

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