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Re: Monodraw

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Post by wingerlang »

awill wrote: post #76
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I find it unlikely that such copy protection would actually convert a non-paying user into a customer. I used to think that but then kept tripping across customers who ran multiple copies of my software after purchasing a single license. I now wish I'd tightened the DRM from the start.

I think you're missing his point. If you tightened DRM, would those customers that ran multiple copies pay for multiple licenses? Fighting piracy is generally not worth it. Those people would never pay, so you're fighting to stop a pirate from using it, not to get them to pay. There's a big difference.

I have had a handful of people request additional licenses (at a discount) for the purpose of running my software on multiple.

Re: Monodraw

#82

Post by dheera »

shirol wrote: post #21
milen wrote: post #12

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?

People who pirate software at scale are not typically interested in ASCII art. It doesn't quite cross the threshold of business value and usefulness (e.g. SolidWorks, Photoshop) that would attract pirates.

Re: Monodraw

#83

Post by stevage »

>Because it's all just text

Hiding a lot of complications in that phrase. What text encoding? What font? etc.

Re: Monodraw

#84

Post by agentultra »

smusamashah wrote: post #47

Some relevant browser based ascii-drawing tools. https://app.monosketch.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... https://textik.com/# https://asciiflow.com/#/ https://fsymbols.com/draw/

Don’t forget emacs. It has artist-mode.

Re: Monodraw

#85

Post by dboon »

milen wrote: post #78
coxley wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any enhancements that you've wanted to do, but haven't had the time? I'm a huge fan, and am surprised how stable Monodraw has been for me. I've kept a single, growing document open as a scratch pad for the last three years. The only downtime was converting it to the new-ish file format haha.

The top two features I want to add next are table support and some form of auto layout (like flexbox). I really care about stability and performance, so I’m happy to hear that it’s being appreciated.

There’s this layout library in C called clay which is basically a renderer agnostic flex box style layout engine. You might be interested in reading its source!

Re: Monodraw

#86

Post by marceldegraaf »

sorentwo wrote: post #66
randomgermanguy wrote: post #18

Bought 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.

Absolutely love monodraw for diagrams in documentation! All of the diagrams for Oban and Oban Pro are done this way: Job Lifecycle: https://hexdocs.pm/oban/job_lifecycle.html Composition: https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6.4/composition.html

Sidenote: thanks so much for taking the time to write the Oban docs. I'm a big user (and fan) of Oban, and the docs are fantastic.

Re: Monodraw

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Post by jen729w »

billyp-rva wrote: post #14

Accessibility question: how do screen readers handle ascii art-style diagrams like this? It seems like they would be overwhelmed by the lines.

They don’t. You should aria-label it thus:

    role="img"
    aria-label="A styled box using monospace box-drawing characters. Its header is 'area complete', and there's a link to a forum post."
(Happy to be corrected/updated here, I am not an a11y expert. I am a very happy Monodraw customer though!)

Re: Monodraw

#88

Post by __bb »

This app is great for writing code comments when you hit one of those “1000 words or 1 picture” cases for an explanation of something.

Just checked and my most recent document is a diagram of data flows between two services.

Highly recommended.

Re: Monodraw

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Post by Bedon292 »

milen wrote: post #23
SirFatty wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows version in the future?

There are no current plans but never say never (the app is 100% AppKit, so porting means a full rewrite). I wish I had the time to port it to all three desktop OSes.

It definitely looks like a cool app, and I was excited to test it out, but I don't have a Mac. If you ever hit the point where a rewrite makes sense, it would be awesome as a universal app.

Re: Monodraw

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Post by billyp-rva »

jen729w wrote: post #87
billyp-rva wrote: post #14

Accessibility question: how do screen readers handle ascii art-style diagrams like this? It seems like they would be overwhelmed by the lines.

They don’t. You should aria-label it thus: role="img" aria-label="A styled box using monospace box-drawing characters. Its header is 'area complete', and there's a link to a forum post." (Happy to be corrected/updated here, I am not an a11y expert. I am a very happy Monodraw customer though!)

Would this tell the screen reader to just ignore it? Then you'd lose all accessibility for its content.
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