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Re: Monodraw

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Post by rbanffy »

efreak wrote: post #190
rbanffy wrote: post #184

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Unicode 13 added the 3x2s and 16 the 4x2s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing_S...

Thank you. I was searching for 3x2 and combination and the likes.

3x2 were more popular, used in, among others, Teletext and the TRS-80. The only place we found the 4x2s was the Kaypro portable (using the upper 128 positions of the character generator plus a reverse video bit to get all 265 combinations).

Re: Monodraw

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Post by abtinf »

abtinf wrote: post #172
milen wrote: post #12

Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.

I am trying it for the first time. One point of feedback, with the caveat that my only experience so far is opening the tutorial: I immediately hate that when intending to scroll vertically using the trackpad on my macbook, it constantly unintentionally scrolls horizontally as well and I have to correct it. It is particularly irritating since there is no content on the canvas to see when scrolling. Maybe I'm just sup…

I’ve now spent a couple hours using it.

Once I started using it for actual diagrams, the issue completely faded away. Scrolling a super long vertical-only document is an unimportant edge case.

This is the god damn holy grail of ascii chart editing.

Well done.

Re: Monodraw

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Post by myfonj »

milen wrote: post #12

Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.

What is the Unicode support? Namely the "Symbols for Legacy Computing"[0] (including the latest supplements [1]) with "newly available" full octants palette could be neat to get sub-character "octant pixel" precision. (And/or exploitation of Braille [2] for the same purpose.)

(Not a Mac user, so cannot try, and not clear from screenshots for me; these all seem like ASCII + )

[0] https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/c_1FB00.html [1] https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/c_1CC00.html [2] https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/c_2800.html

Re: Monodraw

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Post by klik99 »

jefurii wrote: post #188
klik99 wrote: post #173

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Nice! I was wondering if it would be good for making ascii art assets for roguelike games (for example: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2014/12/cogmind-ascii-art... or https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/games/ultima-ratio-regum/ ) - some of the art you've made for oxide thinks it must be good for that!

The Cogmind dev made his own tool called REXPaint which is mentioned elsewhere on this page.

Yeah I'm very familiar with Josh Ge and Rex - my current project uses rex files for loading images - I just have a lot of metadata I bake in through hacky ways and rex format is not very flexible - rexpaint is great though

Re: Monodraw

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Post by milen »

larodi wrote: post #186
milen wrote: post #154

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The team is just me - the developer. There’s no affiliation whatsoever, I’m actually quite surprised every time Monodraw appears on the front page as the app just had its 10th birthday. I would have assumed most people in the community would know about it by now.

Curious indeed, no offense in my previous comments, Sir. Perhaps you are the same Milen who worked on Socialite? Not sure I find it in your resumee but the Джумеров name matches this article .) https://www.novinite.bg/index.php/articles/6180/Prilojenieto... Congrats on your work and achievements.

Yup, that's me! EventBox [1] was rebranded as Socialite after it got acquired [2] by Realmac Software.

[1] https://milen.me/software/eventbox-walkthrough/

[2] https://www.macworld.com/article/200462/realmac_eventbox.htm...

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