Re: Nerd Boy - Fan Art

> > My greatest hope is still that you make JavE work like Textpad with it's textwriting
and
> > selection in one tool.
>
> I have started to combine both tools in JavE 2.0. With those changes
> your hope should be 40% fulfilled. I have not received any comments on
> it: does it work, is it ok?

You did'nt document it .. nobody noticed.

 I am still in doubt about moving the
> selection using cursor keys: It seems to be very useful to move around
> the selection by cursor keys on the one hand, but on the other hand one
> is used to dropping the selection using cursor keys (Textpad, Notepad,
> etc.). Maybe Ctrl-Cursor-Key should move the selection?? What is your
> opinion?

Moving the seleted box seems with mouse and keyboard seems good.
No fancy CTRL + some key combinations there.

> What else do you expect to happen with mouse or keyboard
> actions?

Well I expect to be able to call most functions from the menu , and or via a hotkey so if
I dont have a mouse (or im on a portable with an annoying control method) i can use the
keyboard instead.

> > It should work like this :
> > When you just click on a cell you move the cursor there and activate text mode.
>
> I have implemented it just this minute. It seems to work fine.

Yeah !
Release a version!


> One more thing missing is this: Pressing a key when having a selection
> should replace the selection and enter the typed key. That's already  on
> my list for the next release.

Will it write just one char or will it fill the selection with the char?

> > However if you drag (more than a few pixels) you switch to selection mode and drag a
> > selection box - that you can drag aound and do all the other nice stuff with until you
> > once again singleclick outside of the selection area.
>
> Ok, if that's all, it is done and will be available in 2.1 soon.

YES !!!!

Oh .. btw I dont like the overwrite cursor .. In window the overwrite cursor in normally a
big blinking box .. i'm used to that - seeing a underscore seems weird to me and I have
trouble getting used to it.

> > Implement ! Implement !
> >
> >        .-------------------.
> >       ( Get to work bitch ! )
> >       ,'-------------------'
> >  ,'--'         ,',-=-.
> >  \ '.' .-'-._.'  `'.''
> >  (o( )'          o=-=o
> >  `0-0`           `0-0'
> >
> > ( My newest creation : Satan Teddy )
>
> Cool ;-) But I have to hit you back:
>
>  .-------------------.
> ( Send comments !!!!! )
>  '-------------------'.
>       ,'--'`,         ,-=-.
>       \ '.'  `._.-`-. `'.''
>       (o( )          `o=-=o
>       `0-0`           `0-0'

Ehh .. commment I can just think of ..
errmm

Oh yeah .. Dont use the "," char for antialiasing .. it does'nt give a smooth look - Use
"." instead.

How about a smooth/antialias function to convert something like :


       XXXXXXX
     XXXXXXXXXXX
   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
     XXXXXXXXXXX
       XXXXXXX

To something like :
          ____
      ,o8888888bo_
    ,d888888888888o
   d8888888888888888.
  ,88888888888888888b
  ]888888888888888888
   88888888888888888P
   `888888888888888P
     Y888888888888'
       `YY8888PP'



a BUG .. clicking the Choose Pattern button under the "fill" tool does not bring up a
dialog so I can choose a pattern

BTW.. I really like the lake effect you can get by shaking a selction and fliping it

                ____
            ,o8888888bo_
          ,d888888888888o
         d8888888888888888.
        ,88888888888888888b
        ]888888888888888888
         88888888888888888P
         `888888888888888P
           Y888888888888'
             `YY8888PP'
 ----------------------------------
              ,hh8888bb.
              h888888888888.
          ,888888888888888b
           88888888888888888b
            ]888888888888888888
            `88888888888888888p
          q8888888888888888'
            `q888888888888o
                  `o8888888po"
                         """"


I have seen some good perspective ascii-drawings lately and I just got an idea : how about
some tools/functions that helped making perspective drawings ?

One idea could be to use the watermark code to draw perspective lines you could use to
line up things correctly.

If the compress tool could both enlarge and compress and do it in other intervals than
just half/double the size it ccould be helpful for this too

Enlarging could probably be done by duplicating the chars.
Some chars should probably have more weight than others when choosing the right chars and
it might also be done with a "shade" kind of conversing (this set of char's seems to have
this shade .. so convert to theese chars .. sort of how the image to ascii does it's
magic)
Maybe special care should be taken to linedrawing chars like / \ - _ and such .. I
would'nt know .. I'd have to see how well a basic version worked first


And how about a dropshadow effect :

I was thinking that lines like :


                  |
                  ;
           ,-.   /
         ,'   `-'
       ,'
 -----'

could be made to look like :

                   d8
                   d8
          _d8P8o.,o8P
       ,od8P   `""'
   P8b8P''

.. you could also do much the same if you had to option to lock a selection or screen and
draw under over over that ..
Errmm .. This would be layers in photoshop talk ..
either advanced like photoshop with mulitple layers or like Deluxe Paint (i believe) where
you had two .. a back ground and a foreground and you could switch between them.

This way you could just select a thin/thick line draw tool and trace along the original
line without deleting the original line.

sort of the same effect you could get by coping the original to the clipboard .. tracing
over it and then inserting the original from the clipboard over that in foreground mode.

Kind Regards
CeeJay

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