Re: ASCII-Paint version 0.1 released

On Jan 29, 1:46 pm, corremn <corr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 29, 11:52 am, priom...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:





Hi everyone,
I'd just like to announce my new project: ASCII-Paint. It is a drawing
program which uses ASCII characters instead of pixels. Although it can
be used by anyone I am trying to make it especially for rougelike
developers. The main reason I started working on it is because I
needed to do some drawings of how my rougelike would look without
writing lots of code. It uses the awesome libtcod (which I must say is
a pleasure to use).

This is the first released version so expect to see some bugs etc ;).
The project page can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/ascii-paint/

Currently there is an exectuable version for windows and a source code
version.

Please check it out and let me know what you think.

- Shafqat

Cool project. I gave it a try and whipped up something very quick with
out reading the manual.  Most issues I had were then cleared up by
reading said manual.
It took me about 3 minutes to get the hang of it.
Menu fading was weird but the ctrl-h fixes that issue. (RTFM!)
What is secondary stuff for. I cant get it to do anything.

Very nice features. Flood fill is great.

How about shortcuts for undo (ctrl-z) and redo.
Transparent background choice so I dont have to use the pick command
to set the correct background colour before adding a new character.

Once you select the Symbol you can unselect it, if you clicked it by
accident. So you have to reenter the symbol.

Also how do I get the symbols I dont know keyboard commands for, maybe
have a popup cymbol chooser.  It would be good to show the ascii code
or manually enter it.
Also an option to choose font.

Manually setting the RGB numbers does not really work. I did change
the colour once but now I just am confused about it.

Greate job.  My issues dont really take much away from the usability
of the program.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Ok so the fonts in a file, that cool, I still would like ascii code
support.
.

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