I'm thinking about updating my old ansi drawing tool and search for input on what's important and what is missing in current drawing tools.

I'm shooting for a more heavyweight tool than moebuis/pablodraw. I want to have some BBS specific features in it.

What BBS features could be useful for you?I'm not an ansi artist (or something in that direction) and I want to know what potential users want/need for better planing.

So every input helps:

+ What's your must-have features?
+ What do you miss in current tooling?
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Omnibrain wrote to All <=-

I'm thinking about updating my old ansi drawing tool and search
for input on what's important and what is missing in current
drawing tools.

I'm shooting for a more heavyweight tool than moebuis/pablodraw.
I want to have some BBS specific features in it.

What BBS features could be useful for you?I'm not an ansi artist
(or something in that direction) and I want to know what
potential users want/need for better planing.

So every input helps:

+ What's your must-have features?
+ What do you miss in current tooling?

Good ole TheDraw in DOSBox meets all my needs.



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+ What's your must-have features?

Ability to load ansis which have been strangely formatted and correctly reformatting them to the standard 80x25 with proper linefeeds.

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On 02 Sep 2023, Omnibrain said the following...

What BBS features could be useful for you?I'm not an ansi artist (or something in that direction) and I want to know what potential users want/need for better planing.

one thing that would be useful: let's say i pick a point at 35,10. i put in a width, 10. i put in some metadata: a pipe code for a username and a pipe code that justifies it in a 10 character wide box.

the entire time i edit the ansi i'm kept out of that box. and then when i save the ansi, the box is collapsed and in it's place is put the metadata i provided.

this way the onus is on me that my pipe/@/whatever codes are correct for filling that 10 character space (regardless of what weird bbs i use it on), and you don't have to interpret anything with the editor, etc.

if i want to put a code to erase the screen, i pick 1,1, length 0, and the metadata can be the CL pipe code, etc.

i suppose this would require the editor to have it's own one-way save file format (yours->ansi) but it seems like regardless pipe codes will be a pain. avoiding interpreting them at all would be easiest ;)

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the entire time i edit the ansi i'm kept out of that box. and then when
i save the ansi, the box is collapsed and in it's place is put the metadata i provided.

I think I know what you mean. I hope I've covered that use case.
But you're correct with the own file format. There is unfortunately no way I can use any existing one. But I add meta data to common ANSI basically so not a brand new file format that "makes everything better" will jump out of the box :).

ps. just kidding there will jump something out of the box.

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Re: Ansi drawing tools
By: Omnibrain to All on Sat Sep 02 2023 10:59 am

What BBS features could be useful for you?

Loading/saving files in Synchronet (Ctrl-A) format would be nice. https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:ctrl-a_codes
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Loading/saving files in Synchronet (Ctrl-A) format would be nice. https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:ctrl-a_codes

y saw you added support for that in syncdraw :).
ty for keeping that code base alive btw. never got much feedback for mysticdraw. That's why the update takes ~20 years - hahaha.

Want to get first version released until the end of the year to make a 20 year update. However I'll rebrand it.

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I'm thinking about updating my old ansi drawing tool and search for input on what's important and what is missing in current drawing tools.

I'm shooting for a more heavyweight tool than moebuis/pablodraw. I want to have some BBS specific features in it.

What BBS features could be useful for you?I'm not an ansi artist (or somethi in that direction) and I want to know what potential users want/need for better planing.

Something that works and feels like TheDraw, and is DOS console based would be nice as well.

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Exodus wrote to Omnibrain <=-

I'm thinking about updating my old ansi drawing tool and search for input

on

what's important and what is missing in current drawing tools.

I'm shooting for a more heavyweight tool than moebuis/pablodraw. I want to have some BBS specific features in it.

What BBS features could be useful for you?I'm not an ansi artist (or

somethi

in that direction) and I want to know what potential users want/need for better planing.

Something that works and feels like TheDraw, and is DOS console
based would be nice as well.

How about using the actual...... TheDraw ?



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