that is heart-wrenching. doesn't anyone at microsoft have a heart?
What do you two do now?
Sketchpad has completely disappeared from Ink Workspace
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I have tried rebooting and turning Ink workspace on and off from settings and taskbar. It is only showing me Whiteboard and Fullscreen snip. Did Windows do away with sketchpad, forcing me to login with a Windows ID to use Whiteboard? Or is this a bug from a recent update? Or is there anything else I can try?
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2020-02-12T08:13:52+00:00 and if anyone wants to know of a decent alternative, there's Inkodo
That looks like it has concepts of "books" and "pages" and other unwanted cruft that makes it slow and difficult to use. Has anyone figured out how to extract Sketchpad and copy it manually forward?
I don't think it's possible to "extract Sketchpad and copy it manually forward" as it was a UWP app. UWP apps are super limited and restricted compared to win32 stuff. UWP stuff, namely WinUI (the interface library) has great touch and pen support.
You can just ignore the pages and books and stuff. It doesn't make it slow or difficult to use. Simply go to the settings and hide the navigation pane. I like Inkodo as it's the closest free app I've found to Sketchpad. Tons of teachers use Sketchpad and Microsoft has let everyone here down. I even saw a math video on YouTube where someone was using Sketchpad. Inkodo lets me use my finger and doesn't require a pen like some apps. The developer is also responsive to feedback (unlike Microsoft >.>)
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Anonymous
2020-01-13T03:07:56+00:00 Hear! Hear!
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Anonymous
2019-12-12T22:00:31+00:00 and if anyone wants to know of a decent alternative, there's Inkodo
That looks like it has concepts of "books" and "pages" and other unwanted cruft that makes it slow and difficult to use. Has anyone figured out how to extract Sketchpad and copy it manually forward?
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Anonymous
2019-12-12T03:11:07+00:00 Anyone that wants to try, Autodesk has a decent FREE program, SketchBook.
I just put it on. Seems ok.