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Re: Monodraw

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Post by bugbuddy » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 3:16 PM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #143

I maintain a list [1] of main web based text to diagram tools including ascii drawing tools like these. Web alternatives for this are probably https://fsymbols.com/draw/ or https://textik.com/ or https://asciiflow.com/#/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... or https://app.monosketch.io [1]: https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

Great list. Thank you so much!

Re: Monodraw

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Post by SuhanaJabin » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 3:30 PM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #143

I maintain a list [1] of main web based text to diagram tools including ascii drawing tools like these. Web alternatives for this are probably https://fsymbols.com/draw/ or https://textik.com/ or https://asciiflow.com/#/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... or https://app.monosketch.io [1]: https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

That's helpful!

Re: Monodraw

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Post by yboris » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

Mildly related: for complex diagrams where too much overlaps, consider yEd - which has functionality to rearrange boxes to minimize overlaps (and other settings)

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

Re: Monodraw

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Post by mixmastamyk » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 6:18 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #210

mixmastamyk wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extended supersets of a thing are not the thing, they are a larger group.

Are you saying we should reserve the term "ASCII art" literally for text containing just the original 95 printable characters? Even if you can make a good argument for that, I fear you're fighting a losing battle.

Yes, the terms ANSI art and Unicode art have been around for decades and are defined standards as well. No need to make an argument.

Re: Monodraw

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Post by yixas40465 » Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 2:45 PM UTC

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Re: Monodraw

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Post by mtillman » Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

This is a great application and far better than any of the web based stuff in the other comments. You should be given a product award for the Add Attachment Point alone, something no one else has achieved with such ease.

Re: Monodraw

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Post by mnurzia » Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 10:01 PM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #143

I maintain a list [1] of main web based text to diagram tools including ascii drawing tools like these. Web alternatives for this are probably https://fsymbols.com/draw/ or https://textik.com/ or https://asciiflow.com/#/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... or https://app.monosketch.io [1]: https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

I've had this list bookmarked for years. Thanks for this!

Re: Monodraw

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Post by azeirah » Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 8:12 AM UTC

asteroidz wrote: post #204

azeirah wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!

What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.

I don't know if cross-platform applications are very popular anymore. Most of the good software I use is either single platform using native code, or it's Qt or it's electron. Only rare cases use something else.

Sublime has their own cross-platform native widget system

Jetbrains/minecraft use Java

Spotify is chromium, discord is chromium, thunderbird is firefoxium, Obsidian is chromium, steam is (probably?) chromium.

Most software that I know is cross-platform uses Qt otherwise; qbittorrent (duh), Transmission, KeepassXC, VLC (mostly, but also uses other GUI frameworks sometimes), Calibre, Krita, OBS