Re: Tracing pictures

: Hello all.. I don't think this has been suggested before - an easy(ish)
: way to trace pictures (as in being able to write text over the top of an
: image).. it works on Internet Explorer 5 (might work on 4.. I don't
: know) but not on Netscape Navigator (both on Windows 98) if you try it
: on a different system, feel free to say..
:
: You can see the result of this technique in my other post..
:
: If this is a really bad idea, just say so..

Actually I think it's a great idea !

In fact i'm dying to try to make this into a fullfeatured DHTML ASCII editor.

Or short of that at least improve on a few things.

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Allow selection of font and image and textarea size from the page
instead of having to alter the source. [EASY]

Allow for dimming, reversing and fliping of the image
using DHTML image filters [EASY to MEDIUM]

Include a quick repository of standard shapes and lines
ready for insertion [EASY to MEDIUM]

Make it work for Netscape too [MEDUIM]

Make a quick button that copies it directly to the clipboard [MEDIUM]

ASCII reversing selected text
(make ascii facing left, face rigth and vice versa) [MEDIUM to HARD]

Quickbutton to post directly to alt.ascii-art using a cgi script
(I probarbly won't do this .. this could make it easy for a webuser
to flood this newsgroup) [HARD]

Detection of nonascii characters [MEDIUM to HARD]

Rectangular copy and paste [HARD]

Catching of harmful input like the escape key
[MEDIUM - if it can be done properly]

Make it work correctly for browser versions below 4 [NO CHANCE IN HELL]

Make it work aproximatly for browser versions below 4 [MAYBE]

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I have added it to my idea tank (TODOlist of crazy ideas I would like to carry
out one day)

I will probarbly begin work on it after i get my "SMS 2 POP" (a program that
allows you to check your POP3 mail from a ordinary cellphone) and my SSI-less
counter CGI done (a lowbandwidth webcounter -- with a twist) done.

Kind Regards
CeeJay

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