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Corona688

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ASCII editing utilities
« on: April 27, 2015, 01:13:32 pm »

Something to plan squares in.  Not like Notepad, but more of a character matrix like DF is.

The closest I've found is a utility from the DOS era called TheDraw would could be perfect -- it has copy/paste, layers, etc, etc -- but it's old, its interface is weird, it uses weird formats, and it nags about registration.

Excel is more modern and easier to understand but ugly and uncooperative in various ways.

Anything else out there?
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2015, 01:22:41 pm »

Pencils and graph paper are an option.
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2015, 01:26:07 pm »

Well, sure, as well as literal cut and paste.  I was thinking of these newfamgled computerthings.
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2015, 01:29:07 pm »

I've heard people use Excel for planning forts. That's the only program I've heard of people using for that, honestly. Maybe check out the Quickfort DF utility.
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2015, 01:34:21 pm »

ASCII-Paint looks good.
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2015, 01:37:47 pm »

It does.  Thanks.

Slightly newer fork here.

[edit]  This is so much easier than Excel!  Great find.  Thanks again.
« Last Edit: April 27, 2015, 01:41:03 pm by Corona688 »
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2015, 01:53:13 pm »

Any sort of 'delete' or 'erase' tool is blatantly missing though.  Closest you can do is copy already-blank areas.  (Also there is a 'trasparent' color which wasn't labelled).
« Last Edit: April 27, 2015, 01:57:14 pm by Corona688 »
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2015, 03:22:22 pm »

I use Mac Paintbrush, zoom it in as much as I can and make it show the grid. It does exactly what I need.

The only way to differ between squares is by colour, though
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2015, 10:09:44 am »

The Emacs text editor has a couple of ascii art modes, too.
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2015, 02:20:27 am »

Nobody mentioned Asciidraw? Contains the full CP437 character set and all 128 "core" ANSI colors (8 background, 8*2 foreground) - this puts it at the same capabilities as DF handles.

And now I want to try to program up an editor of my own with layers and stuff...
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Re: ASCII editing utilities
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2015, 10:57:25 am »

Thanks!  That actually looks more like what I was thinking.

ASCII-paint has layers though!  Once you get a little used to it its nice.  I still miss having a delete tool though!  ><
« Last Edit: May 01, 2015, 12:27:34 pm by Corona688 »
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