HELP!!! How to save animated ascii

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Anne Buonassisi wrote:

> Thanks, Spam Free for the suggestion, but neither of those 2 suggestions
> work!!! I have a 120 Pentium. 33.6 modem, Netscape 3 and all the plug
> in, etc.etc.
> The reason I can't "copy" and "paste" or "control c and control v" is
> that the animated Ascii cannot be highlited!
> 
> Any other suggestions???? - would be greatly appreciated.    Anne.

How about going into view - page source, and copying the ascii out of
there? I haven't actually looked at the source for these animations, so
hopefully animation doesn't fill them with control codes and html tags...

-Pete


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Anne Buonassisi wrote:
> The reason I can't "copy" and "paste" or "control c and control v" is
> that the animated Ascii cannot be highlited!

Good point. I just added a pause-button to mine. Now
copy and paste will work.

> Any other suggestions???? - would be greatly appreciated.    Anne.
For the animations made by others:
Save the page to a local file "test.html". I guess you want to
copy just a single picture. Some Ascii might be difficult to copy 
out of the source though.
Then you can modify the Javascript code to show just one
picture. Somewhere you'll find something like :


document.f.t.value=tl[x];        
x++; if(x==max) x=0;        
setTimeout("tick()",70);  }    //--></script>  

Just put a // in front of setTimeout, make a new line
for the "}   //-->" etc. and replace the x in tl[x] with 
the number of the picture you'd like to see. 
E.g. :

document.f.t.value=tl[24];        
x++; if(x==max) x=0;        
//setTimeout("tick()",70);    
}    //--></script>

Open the file with your browser and you can copy your snapshot
with copy and paste.

Hope that helps. 

Andreas
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Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> Yes, but she will only get one frame, I got the impression she wanted to
> copy the whole animations (just simply "save as" in Netscape will do
> that).
What other browser can display the animation?
So if we are talking about netscape "save as" should not
be too difficult. :)

Andreas


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Andreas Freise wrote:
> 
> Anne Buonassisi wrote:
> > The reason I can't "copy" and "paste" or "control c and control v" is
> > that the animated Ascii cannot be highlited!
> 
> Good point. I just added a pause-button to mine. Now
> copy and paste will work.

Yes, but she will only get one frame, I got the impression she wanted to
copy the whole animations (just simply "save as" in Netscape will do
that).

> 
> > Any other suggestions???? - would be greatly appreciated.    Anne.
> For the animations made by others:
> Save the page to a local file "test.html". 

I get the impression that is what she is trying to do... :)

> I guess you want to
> copy just a single picture. Some Ascii might be difficult to copy
> out of the source though.

What you do is to remove some extra characters at the beginning and end
of every line, then replace all backslash followed by double quotes  
\"   with just the one double quote character   "   and then replace all
double backslashes   \\   with just one backslash   \

> Then you can modify the Javascript code to show just one
> picture. Somewhere you'll find something like :
> 

This sounds like it is very complicated, even for a programmer like me,
and certainly way over the head of somebody who has trouble with
saving... (but I haven't tried it, maybe it is really good. Maybe you
should make a "stepping" version where you can step one frame at a time,
or maybe that is what your "pause" button does?)

> document.f.t.value=tl[x];
> x++; if(x==max) x=0;
> setTimeout("tick()",70);  }    //--></script>
> 
> Just put a // in front of setTimeout, make a new line
> for the "}   //-->" etc. and replace the x in tl[x] with
> the number of the picture you'd like to see.
> E.g. :
> 
> document.f.t.value=tl[24];
> x++; if(x==max) x=0;
> //setTimeout("tick()",70);
> }    //--></script>
> 
> Open the file with your browser and you can copy your snapshot
> with copy and paste.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Andreas
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:)
Veronica Karlsson
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Using Aol's browser... whatever that happens to be... I cannot see the
JavaScript
animations... I see an empty box.  But I click on "file", "save" and later
view
the htm file with Netscape 3.0... It works fine that way...

Now if you are interested in saving a frame of a certain picture, you may
want to check the rest of the artist's collection, there's a good
possibility
that it is there... Otherwise, you can have lots of fun (sarcasm) removing
the code, the extra \ and "s... 
-joan
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