Jave 1 - new Release with tons of news

Hi,

Ok, it has taken some time, but finally here it is:
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         \___/ \__,_| \_/ \___| |_|_.__/ \___|\__\__,_|   `/_\'

The latest release of my freeware editor can be downloaded now from:
   http://www.jave.de
(Don't forget to download the FIGlet fonts, too)

What is it?
  Jave ("Java Ascii versatile Editor") is a free Ascii Editor.
  Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple
  diagrams by using Ascii characters.
  It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images. 
  Jave is written in 100% pure Java and so should run on almost every
  operating system.
  It is a standalone application and not available as applet. 

What is new?
  Have a look at the list below!

Let me know what you think about it.

Have fun!
Markus

Ok, here are all the news in this release (well, at least some of them):

 * Increased performance (should be enormous on some machines)

 * Improved look and feel

 * Improved font scaling

 * Crash recovery: 
   If you restart Jave after a crash it will try to recover the last
   state of your documents along with most of the undo-history
   (you should not lose more than one or two steps of editing)
 
 * Jave-Movie:
   You can save your document along with the history of each step of
editing
   as Jave-Movie.
   It will become clear what this feature is for as soon as I have
   released the JavePlayer (Open source project) within the next few
days.
   Stay tuned.

 * New Algorithms for better shape tools:
   The Tools Freehand, Rectangle, Line, etc. are divided into two
   different sets:
   The old ones are called "algorithmic" (colored blue) and
   there are now new ones called "generic" (colored green), that work a
different way.
   For the generic tools you can always chose one out of 3 styles:

                           XXXXXXXXXXXXX    character
                       XXXX             XXXX                    ,o.
     thick3         XXX         __,..       XX                 ,88
d888oooo_         XX     _,.--''                       thick2 ,88
`YP8888888bo.   XX  _,--'           _______                  d8P
      'YYY8888o__,-'         _,oo8PPPYYYYYPP8ooo_          ,d8P
           `Y888b.        ,o8PY'          ,.  'YY8o.     _d8P'
          _,'XY888o_    o8P'            ,888'     `Y8o.,d88'
    line,-  X   Y888o.d8P             ,d888'        _d888'
      /'   X      Y8888oo._     __,od888P'      _,o888PY8b
    /'    X        d8Y888888888888888PP'  __,oo888PY'    Yb thick1
          X       d8'  ``YYPPPPPPYY'    d8888PP''         Yb
                  Y'                     ''                Y

 * Ascii File Browser:
     Go to menu->file->browse and browse the ascii files on your system.

 * Brush tool:
      Finally there is a tool available where you can chose your own
brush:
         +++++-----------+              ++-----------+
      +++|||||B+-+-----------+        ++|| Brush :-) |
   +++|||+++++-|-+++-----------+   +++||++-----------+
  +|||+++------+-|||+-----------+ +|||++-----------+
 +|+++-----------+++|+----------++|+++-----------+
 |++-----------+    +|++-----+++||+-----------+
 ++-----------+      +|++++--|||++-----------+
 +-----------+        +||||BB+++-----------+
 +-----------+         ++++--+-----------+
     Edit the characters of the brush (Shift-Space will create a
Delete-Character) or
     use selection tool to select whatever you want to use as brush
     and chose menu->selection->use as brush.

 * Mix-Mode
   With (almost) every tool you can now chose if you want it to work
   either in mixed or in overwrite mode.
   In mix mode characters will be merged, e.g.: - and | will become +
   In combination with the brush tool you can draw lines like that:
   __
  d88b
  Y88P Brush
              _____
           __d88888b__
         _d88888888888b        __
  ______d888888P Y88888b      d88b  result when drawing
 d88888888888P     Y8888b   _d8888
 Y888888888P        Y8888b_d88888P
                     Y8888888888P
                      Y8888888P

 * Rectangle tool/Textbox tool:
   use whatever characters you want:
            ______                A.......B
+-------+  |      |    .------.   f       g
|       |  |      |    |      |   f       g
+-------+  |______|    `------'   C"""""""D  etc.


 * Selection tool:
   * Most functions have been moved to menus and are now also available
   when there is no selection
   * Improved 3d-look for background/foreground (can be disabled)
   * Dropping a selection will resize the plate if neccessary

 * Text tool:
   Notepad-mode (well, something like an option to switch
overwrite/insert)

 * Eraser tool:
   increased performance, different shapes and sizes

 * FIGlet:
   * Added a simple tool for inserting FIGlet text without using the
dialog
   * FIGlet fonts are now in an extra downloadable package (containing
195fonts)
   * Increased font compatibility - no more incompatibilities known
   * Fonts are now divided into categories: styles (Banner,
Outline,...), number of lines, year of creation
   * New Font "benjamin":  |3[-|\|.]/-\|\/|||\|

 * Misc:
   * Ascii2GIF (menu->file->ascii2gif)
   * Show/hide watermark using shortcut (Ctrl-P)
   * Show/hide grid using shortcut (Ctrl-G)
   * Rot13, uppercase, lowercase
   * Center, center by the line, align left, align right
   * Shake lines
   * Try to repair Ascii Art with shaked lines
   * In most algorithms the configurable parts have been moved to text
files
     (This makes updates easier)
   * Holding down SHIFT key when drawing ellipses and rectangles will
make them quadratic

 * Included: readme.txt, history.txt, license.txt

 * Most important Bugs removed since last release:
    * Removed non ascii characters from cliparts
    * Tool options dialog should now be visible on any machine 

 * Many more...

On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:43:07 +0200, Markus Gebhard <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Ok, it has taken some time, but finally here it is:
>   _         _                   _ _          _
> .\_/.      | | __ ___   _____  / | |__   ___| |_ __ _      _
> ||a||   _  | |/ _` \ \ / / _ \ | | '_ \ / _ \ __/ _` |   .\_/.
> `/_\'  | |_| | (_| |\ V /  __/ | | |_) |  __/ || (_| |   ||a||
>         \___/ \__,_| \_/ \___| |_|_.__/ \___|\__\__,_|   `/_\'
>
>The latest release of my freeware editor can be downloaded now from:
>   http://www.jave.de
>(Don't forget to download the FIGlet fonts, too)
>


YAH!!!!!

Thanks!
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"Markus Gebhard" <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote in message
news:3B2...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de...
> Hi,
>
> Ok, it has taken some time, but finally here it is:
>    _         _                   _ _          _
>  .\_/.      | | __ ___   _____  / | |__   ___| |_ __ _      _
>  ||a||   _  | |/ _` \ \ / / _ \ | | '_ \ / _ \ __/ _` |   .\_/.
>  `/_\'  | |_| | (_| |\ V /  __/ | | |_) |  __/ || (_| |   ||a||
>          \___/ \__,_| \_/ \___| |_|_.__/ \___|\__\__,_|   `/_\'
>
> The latest release of my freeware editor can be downloaded now from:
>    http://www.jave.de
> (Don't forget to download the FIGlet fonts, too)

having some problems d/l got some of these on my end. any on yours ?

grimlins

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--lgbeard

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>  ||a||   _  | |/ _` \ \ / / _ \ | | '_ \ / _ \ __/ _` |   .\_/.
>  `/_\'  | |_| | (_| |\ V /  __/ | | |_) |  __/ || (_| |   ||a||
>          \___/ \__,_| \_/ \___| |_|_.__/ \___|\__\__,_|   `/_\'


>  * Increased performance (should be enormous on some machines)

Did you try JOPT on it ?

Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote:
> 
> >    _         _                   _ _          _
> >  .\_/.      | | __ ___   _____  / | |__   ___| |_ __ _      _
> >  ||a||   _  | |/ _` \ \ / / _ \ | | '_ \ / _ \ __/ _` |   .\_/.
> >  `/_\'  | |_| | (_| |\ V /  __/ | | |_) |  __/ || (_| |   ||a||
> >          \___/ \__,_| \_/ \___| |_|_.__/ \___|\__\__,_|   `/_\'
> 
> >  * Increased performance (should be enormous on some machines)
> 
> Did you try JOPT on it ?

No, not yet. I was very busy finally bringing this one out of the door.
I will try JOpt on it, but I will only use it for official releases if
it
 a) brings advantages
and
 b) if I do not encounter any problems with it.

A lot of JREs on different OSes have so many Bugs - I don't want Jave to
become more instable by using optimisation software.

As far as I have seen now JOpt will bring most advantages for applets,
where it is important to keep the download package small. For Jave 50kB
difference in size do not make any difference.

I will let you know about this JOpt thing as soon as I have tested it.

Markus