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Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

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Re: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

#12
post #4

My first thought with Textual and most TUIs is always, "but why?" But then I actually look at what they are building, and I realize, "Oh, because it's really cool!"

Yes this is downright great. Kudos to the author what a fun throwback/revitalization

Re: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

#14
post #4

My first thought with Textual and most TUIs is always, "but why?" But then I actually look at what they are building, and I realize, "Oh, because it's really cool!"

Very early in my career I wrote a ton of code in Clipper (a dBase clone and compiler).

In some ways I kinda miss doing @SAY, @GET, the TBrowse class etc and their TUI.

Re: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

#15
post #4

My first thought with Textual and most TUIs is always, "but why?" But then I actually look at what they are building, and I realize, "Oh, because it's really cool!"

Very early in my career I wrote a ton of code in Clipper (a dBase clone and compiler). In some ways I kinda miss doing @SAY, @GET, the TBrowse class etc and their TUI.

I spent most of the 90s writing Clipper code, used to hang out in comp.lang.clipper lots too. Do still sort of miss it.

https://harbour.github.io/ does exist, although it’s a long while since I last played with that.

Re: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

#18
post #8

I expect, at the minimum: - a rust port - an emacs port :-)

Well, Emacs has had a poor man's "Paint" for over two decades:

  ;;; artist.el --- draw ascii graphics with your mouse -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

  ;; Copyright (C) 2000-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
It is not as nice and colorful, but it has a spray tool (yay!). Also, it is actually useful once in a while [0].

[0] https://mbork.pl/2023-07-15_Drawing_ASCII_art_charts_in_Emac...

Re: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

#20
post #16

I would love to see something like Monodraw, that could generate centered text boxes and simple diagrams for use in READMEs. Monodraw is great, but I don’t think it’s in development anymore.

Oh man, I've long had the idea for a plain text diagram creator, great to see that someone has gone there before.
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