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Re: Monosketch

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Post by thom »

afandian wrote: post #31
thom wrote: post #25

I'd love some version of these tools that could reliably round-trip pure text. Some heuristic or model that can actually recognise boxes, lines with anchors, parent-child relationships etc, so you can paste in pure text and immediately start rearranging stuff. My experience with Monodraw was that you had to maintain the original file format to do this, so once a diagram was in a markdown file or whatever, you couldn'…

This is surely possible. You need to find the monospace whitespace characters (seems there's a few [0]). Then encode a compressed version of the logical diagram in the white space, steganography style. Or do something with characters [1] to compress a lot of data into a tiny ball of hair at the end. Draw.io smuggles the XML in a PNG which I've always admired. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character [1]…

Lovely idea! You're going to be fighting against editors and linters but it'd be a very cool proof of concept.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by grimgrin »

OFF TOPIC, but, on topic, I decided to goof with playscii yday. It is a powerful little thing, but will take some time for me to get comfortable.

"Playscii is an open source ASCII art and animation program. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS."

- https://jp.itch.io/playscii

- https://heptapod.host/jp-lebreton/playscii

Good little interview I found with the creator, JP LeBreton (legend, but I didn't know!)

https://cheesetalks.net/jplebreton.php

> As far as tooling limitations, GZDoom is not a bed of roses. Very little in the engine is runtime editable, so you have to reload the engine to see any of your changes. A rapid turnaround time for reloading changes is nice but it's far better to have as much as possible live-update. And ideally, in my opinion, you have the editor built into the engine itself, and you can do much of what you need from there without having to jump around to outside programs. Playscii was my first big attempt to build a little environment like that, something you can think in once you learn it well enough, like a musical instrument. Miles to go but that's always where I'm trying to get to.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by acedTrex »

Seeing projects with first commits from 3-4 years ago feels like finding pre nuclear testing steel. No strong proof exists that this project was not conceived as slop.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by rho4 »

lemontheme wrote: post #20

Oh nice, this is going in the tool belt. Simple and self-explanatory. Hits the same notes as excalidraw. Only thing I couldn't figure out right away is how to copy the drawing itself (not the JSON data). Eventually I found cmd+shift+c in the keyboard shortcuts. Bit later I found 'Export Text' by clicking on the project name (default: 'Undefined'). I'd put that functionality a bit more front-and-center

Same for me. Add a 'paste text to clipboard'-button top center.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by orangecoffee »

jen729w wrote: post #18
Apreche wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mono draw is in maintenance mode and non-free. Based on the name, pretty sure that Monosketch is an explicit replacement.

Monodraw got an update the other week. It isn't being changed, but it doesn't need to. Great little app. And it's $10, once. Hardly breaking the bank.

But it's not open, and can't be edited by those who want to. We should always support FOSS.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by Brajeshwar »

frizlab wrote: post #30

I use Monodraw[0]. Best purchase I ever made. [0] https://monodraw.helftone.com/

I bought it too. I think most of us seem to bought it almost 10 years ago. Don’t use it much, but it is there when needed once in a while.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by NoSalt »

> "I'm passionate about creating ASCII graphs ..."

I wonder if this guy is like me, around my age. I was around at the "beginning" of the world wide web, and I absolutely love 8-bit graphics, ASCII art, etc., the simpler the better; probably because it brings me back to the heyday, the wild west of the internet. I really miss those days. :-(

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