[REQ]

Are there any text editors that will create files with ANSI colour?

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:01:27 +0000 (UTC), rmg...@hotmail.com (mr_big)
wrote:

> Are there any text editors that will create files with ANSI colour?

I know of the DOS program "TheDraw". (IIRC, it only did files up to
80x50 in size; this may or may not be a limitation.)

Cheers,
Philip
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Sorry for starting a new thread, but I'm using Google, and when I look
at the posts from mr_big and Philip Newton there's no link to post a
reply. ???

I write games with extended ascii characters and ansi colours instead
of graphics, but manually coding them takes ages, so I wrote myself a
program to quickly draw ascii stuff.  I probably wouldn't have
bothered if I'd known TheDraw existed, but I just downloaded TheDraw
to have a look at it, and it seems pretty fiddley to use, so possibly
some people might prefer to use mine, it's self explanatory.  You
can't download my program anywhere, but I could email it to anyone
who's interested.
Here's a(the ;)) small list of features:
-Fully mouse controlled(TheDraw is not fully), but typed input also
possible.
-250 extended ascii chars, 7, 8, 10, 13, 255, and 0 not available. all
colours
-Customisable palette of 'brushes(char+foreground colour+background
colour)'
-Colour mixes screen
-25 or 50 line mode
-Auto draws the correct single or double lines, so no stuffing around
with
 corners and junctions
-Toggles to not/overwrite char, foreground, background
-Left and right mouse buttons hold seperate brushes

It's not nearly the large, polished, product that TheDraw is, but it's
simple,
and it does everything I need.