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Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity by dmd on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:05AM (#16052196)
Monodraw is incredible, and vastly more useful than ASCIIFlow just by dint of the fact that objects remain objects after drawn - you can drag them around and the graph remains intact.
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Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity by pveierland on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:42AM (#16052445)
ASCIIFlow does keep models of drawn boxes, lines, and arrows. If you use the "resize/move boxes and lines" tool, you can adjust drawn objects.
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Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity by dmd on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:46AM (#16052475)
Ah, so it does. Not especially well, but it does. My mistake!
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Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity by bootywizard on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:49AM (#16053094)
Author here - it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only data model. When you resize, it retraces out the lines that need editing. I did this as the expected use case is for diagrams in code, where diagrams may be copy pasted in and out of the tool and I'd lose any underlying models that I was working with. For fun: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2/blob/master/js-lib/draw...
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Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity by foochick on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:31PM (#16054693)
Grateful user here. I've relied on ASCIIFlow for all the diagrams in my Internet drafts since IETF 88. Truly an essential tool in my arsenal.
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