Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity – ASCII diagrams with export
by vog on Monday March 02, 2015 @02:51AM
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Great project! I always wanted to write something like this for ASCII art (handwritten, not autogenerated). But I always ended up using a plain text editor for this (http://asciimation.de/).
I wonder if anyone has taken the next step and done a more modern full ansi graphics editor. Sure, they're not as practical these days as ASCIIFlow, which has real uses, but it would be fun!
Re:ASCIIFlow Infinity – ASCII diagrams with export
by unwind on Monday March 02, 2015 @04:20AM
(#9131026)
Very nice.
One tiny thing: I was unable to draw a (totally horizontal) arrow connecting one box to another box to the right. The arrow head merged with the left border of the target box, becoming a "+" instead of a ">".
Remember TheDraw? (And the many other more advanced DOS ansi editors that followed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
I wonder if anyone has taken the next step and done a more modern full ansi graphics editor. Sure, they're not as practical these days as ASCIIFlow, which has real uses, but it would be fun!
BTW, many non-techies have older browsers, for which the old version is better suited: http://stable.ascii-flow.appspot.com/#Draw
M-x artist-mode
Shift-MouseButton2, select Drawing → Rectangle
Check this out with M-x org-mode and DITAA...
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d...
Also org-mode gives you kick-ass ASCII tables.
One tiny thing: I was unable to draw a (totally horizontal) arrow connecting one box to another box to the right. The arrow head merged with the left border of the target box, becoming a "+" instead of a ">".