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[Gatleos]

So, I've been building my own configurable curses display library to emulate pdcurses in the Allegro Game Programming Library, and I recently decided to make a program rendered in ASCII as a test of its capabilities. The result is a program I like to call CurseLab!

The main goal was to build on the features of programs like ASCIIDraw and ASCIIPaint, making something closer to a full-featured paint program. The features so far include:

• Standard paint program tools (line, circle, fill).
• Multiple layers, complete with color and symbol transparency.
• Full mouse drawing support.
• Export a project as an image, text or HTML.
• Import image files and convert them into a grid of ASCII characters!
• Customizable tilesets and colors! Use an image as a custom tileset. Like, say, these.

The program is feature-complete by my original goal and mostly bug-free, but there's sure to be some features I can add and more bugs to stomp. And so I ask for your comments and suggestions. Go on, try it!

>Download Here (v1.0.1)<

[klingon13524]

So pretty much a better version of M$ paint?

[Armok]

it just says it's missing some dll

[Gatleos]

it just says it's missing some dll

Which one would that be?

EDIT: I got it. It should work now, just download the newer version up top.

[quinnr]

Awesome! Definitely a cool project, I love all the ASCII art software

[Aklyon]

If the export to text works (not just spewing completely unrelated gibberish instead of walls, for example), this will be the best ASCII art program I've seen.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Looks amusing. I shall download this.

[Armok]

now I cant download at all.

[quinnr]

now I cant download at all.

EDIT: or not, the error redirected to a working download page.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Huh, oddness.

[Armok]

still not working. meh, I give up.

[Gatleos]

If the export to text works (not just spewing completely unrelated gibberish instead of walls, for example), this will be the best ASCII art program I've seen.

It... mostly works. .txt files don't seem to get along well with unicode.

Anyway, the download link should be stable now.

[Lectorog]

Issues:
You can't create a new file called "Untitled"
It crashes if you try to import a picture when there's one open.
I have no clue what "export to txt" is good for - it's just gibberish numbers.

Other than that, it works fine for me. Great program! It's fun and easy to use. One suggestion I have is to move the "change brush" from "ctrl+b" to a single button; it's the thing I used most, so that would make it a lot easier.

Thanks for this; good job!

[Vattic]

Neat.

One suggestion: Make fill respect colour as well as symbol. I was using solid blocks of colour and if I tried to fill one colour then it would fill all others touching it ignoring their colour difference. This might be intentional of course.

[PTTG??]

There's no readme, and the only thing I can get it to do is move the cursor to a random location whenever I press space.