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Re: Monodraw

#111

Amazing tool, thank you for building this. One piece of feedback: let me pay you without having to fill out a 20 field form. I would have happily bought a license through PayPal, but having to enter all the info really makes me want to press the back button.

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Re: Monodraw

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Please don't do things like this that make it harder for people to read your comments.

Writing documentation is typically an addition to writing comments. They serve different purposes. That said, adding a diagram to a comment will only make it easier to read. It is an addition. It cannot make things harder.

If only it were true, that additions cannot nake things harder to read.

Re: Monodraw

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Curious what some of the requested features are since it seems feature complete to me

The main requests have been for: - Plaintext format (in progress) - Dark mode support for the main canvas (in progress) - Auto/Dynamic Layout - Table support - ANSI export

What does "plaintext format" mean? Isn't it already plaintext?

Re: Monodraw

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Ah, in that case you might want: text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; (it's infuriating that these options need to exist!)

How do you set options for chrome on iPhone and android? Sorry for the naive question, I never figured this out.

These are in-page CSS controls, not browser config options (no idea how those works, I avoid mobile platforms)

Re: Monodraw

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I believe you can treat it as if it were an image by putting it an element with attributes role="img" aria-label="description of the diagram goes here" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

The problem is, having to describe a diagram using text defeats the purpose of the diagram. Must better is to use diagrams that render as SVG, so screen readers can read them. [0] [0] https://accessibility.princeton.edu/how/design/images-text

A flowchart involving labeled boxes with arrows between them is going to be more accessible as an SVG than a PNG, sure, but you're still going to need to explain what the arrows are doing, otherwise a screenreader user will be quite lost.

Re: Monodraw

#117
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Writing documentation is typically an addition to writing comments. They serve different purposes. That said, adding a diagram to a comment will only make it easier to read. It is an addition. It cannot make things harder.

If only it were true, that additions cannot nake things harder to read.

In this case, it is absolutely true. It is the difference between:

  // some comment
and

  // some comment
  // additionally see ./diagram.png
Diagrams are often useful tools for communicating information.

Re: Monodraw

#118
I used this often for diagrams before repository sites' Markdown renderers started to support Mermaid. Nice tool; easy and fast. Can be a bit fiddly to make changes, depending on how much you care about neatness.

Re: Monodraw

#119
Love it. Triggers memories!

I wrote my own similar-ish version of this for a school project in 1991. Although mine wasn’t mono, so I could draw in foreground colour, preserving the existing text, background colour or text. Eg draw a filled in square made up only of background colour changes. Obviously this is very different but I love the sense of surprisingly good output despite a lot of restrictions.

Re: Monodraw

#120
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This went into "maintenance mode" in 2018, has anything changed? https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/

Developer of Monodraw here. Thank you all for the kind words regarding the app. Unfortunately, my time is extremely limited which is why I haven’t had the chance to push more updates out. I’ve got a few highly requested features in the works but I cannot promise when they’ll see the light of day (I usually get to make progress during my holidays). I’m still committed to fixing any breakages due to OS upgrades and ens…

Thank you, Milen! It's nice to see Bulgarians being behind a popular desktop app! I've been a paid user for years and Monodraw is among the first apps I install when I get a new MacBook machine!
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