new Ascii editor: Jave

Hi,

I have written a free ascii editor for drawing diagrams. Its name is
Jave (Java ASCII Versatile Editor) and it can be used like a graphics
editor, but the result is pure ascii.

Here are some of the features:
 - Freehand painting with mouse
 - Select/fill/mirror/flip/move regions.
 - Shape tool for Ellipses/Rectangles
 - Image2Ascii-converter with 2 ascii algorithms
   and a converter to braille
 - FIGlet tool
 - Textboxes
 - Makros

The tool is written in Java and should run on any platform with a Java
Runtime Environment 1.1 or greater installed. There is also an applet
version online - but it has a lot of restrictions.

Both the applet and the application can be found here:
  http://www.jave.de

It was not in the first place intended for ascii art, but maybe it will
be useful.
Unfortunately there are still lots of bugs and inconveniences.

Let me know what you think about it.

Markus

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Markus Gebhard wrote:
> I have written a free ascii editor for drawing diagrams. Its name is
> Jave (Java ASCII Versatile Editor) and it can be used like a graphics
> editor, but the result is pure ascii.

Actually I didn't really thought it worth trying because there are so
many useful editors and the "new ascii editors" usually didn't work 
really well (excluding Meph's Editor of course).

In a lazy moment I stumbled over this again and found it surprisingly 
good! I like to overall design and the speed: I can actually draw as I 
would e.g. in Emacs (or Notepad or whatever) plus some nice tools. 

I think most of the tools should be very helpfull for beginners whereas 
even someone who is happy with another editor should find some usefull
tricks (the transparent copy, the very good implememtation of
an Image2Ascii converter, the eraser, etc., etc.).

> Both the applet and the application can be found here:
>   http://www.jave.de

Conclusion: if you also didn't even try it because of previous bad 
experiences with other "new editors", this is different! 

> Let me know what you think about it.

Very good work. Keep it on!

:)
Andreas

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