Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.
> Monodraw does not use activation or any other form of DRM. We have complete trust in our customers.
Interesting. But, why?
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#22Bought this couple months ago, and am now always looking for more ways to include this for inline-documentation. the fact i can export to clipboard and re-import it and reconstruct all the shapes etc. almost flawlessly is such a big win.
On one hand, this could provide a lot of value as some things are just plain hard to explain using only words. On the other hand, aren't you worried about when someone else comes along and needs to update one of those comments? If they're not aware of this tool, it's either going to be incredibly tedious or simply not going to happen.
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#24Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.
> Monodraw does not use activation or any other form of DRM. We have complete trust in our customers. Interesting. But, why?
Any time spent on copy protection is time not spent on improving the product for the paying customers.
I find it unlikely that such copy protection would actually convert a non-paying user into a customer.
I also don't want to make the software network dependent in any way.
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#26Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.
Ouch! It looks very sweet i must say. Having worked on a similar idea for a while as a side project, it does hurt to see something better coming out. I hope we can one day compete. :) Edit: removed the URL
Good luck with your project! The world is big enough for multiple products in the same space, no need to get discouraged.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Monodraw does not use activation or any other form of DRM. We have complete trust in our customers. Interesting. But, why?
Cool app! What part excludes it from being sandboxed?
The direct version is not sandboxed as I didn't want to deal with Sparkle (autoupdater) and sandboxing. The Mac App Store version is sandboxed.
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#28It seems very good, is there anything comparable for Linux?
Not sure how comparable they are since I never used Monodraw due to not running MACs, but there is https://asciiflow.com/ and https://monosketch.io/ which I usually use. The latter is using some advanced UTF8 characters and when trying to get it incorporated for my personal blog, I had to use their specific monospaced font from their repo, as otherwise lines wouldn't line up correctly.
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#29Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.
Very nice product! In the retro computing world, the use of "ASCII" to construct levels and worlds is quite prevalent. I immediately considered whether Monodraw might be used as a kind of level editor in that context. Would you consider adding an '8-bit character bitmap' mode, which allows for the bitmap to also be edited? With such a feature, Monodraw would become immediately applicable to those of us building retro…
Thank you for the kind words!
> Would you consider adding an '8-bit character bitmap' mode, which allows for the bitmap to also be edited?
Can you clarify with an example? Monodraw supports "surfaces" which are just like bitmaps - you can use the Pencil tool and draw on those surfaces with any characters you want (there's a palette in the inspector), just like a bitmap editor.
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#3010 USD? how does this compare to asciiflow.com which is free and open-source?
The most obvious difference (and one worth much more than $10 to me) is that one is native and the other is not.