[ANN] JavE4.0 released (Java ASCII Versatile Editor)

I have released the new version 4.0 of my freeware ascii art editor
JavE.
Check it out:
  http://www.jave.de

And don't forget to tell me what you think about it!

New Features include:
 * New user interface for tools (hope you like it)
 * Selection Tool now supports freehand selection - any shape!
 * add/remove characters to/from selection by holding down
   shift/crtl-key
 * improved result with line style in generic tools
 * New image2ascii-algorithms "Edge Tracing" and "Edge Detect"
 * Command line interface to use JavE's image2ascii w/o gui
 * ...and many many more!

For a detailed list of news have a look at:
  http://www.jave.de/docs/history.txt

Have fun!
Markus
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Does anyone have any experience running JavE under linux? I am running
linux kernel 2.4.18 on Slackware 8.0. I have the newest JRE from Sun, and
just downloaded this new release of JavE (and the figlet fonts). I put
everything into said directories. I get a whole bunch of errors to my
shell like this:

Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]

The JavE documentation said this is ok and to ignore it though, so I am
doing so. Once JavE starts up, I get a little window saying "Now
starting..." etc. It loads some thing (says that it is) and then I get a
single window on my screen that is freehand generator or something. It has
a "Mode" drop-down box, and a box to select Style and Size (both are
greyed out though) as well as a checkbox for Mix.

I've checked the jave docs and so far havent found a solution, I am going
to continue searching, if anyone has ideas, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:59:15 -0800, Markus Gebhard wrote:

> I have released the new version 4.0 of my freeware ascii art editor
> JavE.
> Check it out:
>   http://www.jave.de
> 
> And don't forget to tell me what you think about it!
> 
> New Features include:
>  * New user interface for tools (hope you like it) * Selection Tool now
>  supports freehand selection - any shape! * add/remove characters
>  to/from selection by holding down
>    shift/crtl-key
>  * improved result with line style in generic tools * New
>  image2ascii-algorithms "Edge Tracing" and "Edge Detect" * Command line
>  interface to use JavE's image2ascii w/o gui * ...and many many more!
> 
> For a detailed list of news have a look at:
>   http://www.jave.de/docs/history.txt
> 
> Have fun!
> Markus

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:59:15 +0100, Markus Gebhard <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

>I have released the new version 4.0 of my freeware ascii art editor

Seems ok as far as I tried anything

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    At 98.5 Million times the speed of light, things change quickly

MJP
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Looks like someone lost an eye - A bit of diddling:

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        `.###########_,'
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Demerol wrote:
[...]
> Once JavE starts up, I get a little window saying "Now
> starting..." etc. It loads some thing (says that it is) and then I get a
> single window on my screen that is freehand generator or something. It has
> a "Mode" drop-down box, and a box to select Style and Size (both are
> greyed out though) as well as a checkbox for Mix.

What you see is the tool options dialog. It should appear in front of
the main window - which does not show up on your system. I once have
been reported the same problem with a much earlier version of JavE. The
problem was that the main window had a position outside of the screen
and so was not visible. I think this was caused by the window manager,
that is responsible for positioning windows when they show up.
However once JavE has been started and exited, it saves its size and
position to a file called jave.ini located in the JavE program folder.
You can look there for the following lines:

[editor]
ypos=50
xpos=30
height=588
width=720

When there are very huge values for xpos or ypos or negative values, the
main window is positioned outside of the screen.
When there is no jave.ini yet, you can create it and put the lines above
inside. Maybe it then will show up correct. You can also try to change
your window manager - on linux systems it should be possible to switch
between them easily. If it still does not work I have no idea about what
goes wrong.
What JRE do you use, the new 1.4 or 1.3?

Regards,
Markus
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 \-/        http://www.jave.de     O_< Get JavE4.0 now!    \-/
J|a|v|E                           /|                      J|a|v|E
 /-\      Ascii-Art for eyeryone  / \    - for free!       /-\