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Asciiflow
- VaucGiaps 13y agoUseful! Option to use the 'real' ASCII box-drawing characters and shadows would be a good add!
- wlievens 13y agoPeople wgo like this should check out ditaa. It's similar but then again very different.
- tofof 13y agoPerhaps that's why it has a ditaa button to do the transformation.
- StevePerkins 13y agoGiven that the site is now slashdotted, can anyone please mention what it even is?
- Blahah 13y agoIt's a Javascript version of artist mode in emacs - you can draw diagrams using ascii-art like you would in a vector design program.
- unspecified 13y agoI wish it was javascript! It's a Google App Engine-based Java monster: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoErgo it being an app that now only displays: Over Quota This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
- kodablah 13y agoIt is GWT, so it is transpiled to JS. I remember when I first saw this project years ago, I was impressed. Back then GWT was the best choice for statically-typed, large JS project development IMO.
- pavel_lishin 13y agoWe just chopped GWT out of our project a month or so ago; I'll fully admit that I didn't know much about it, but every step of the way I felt like I was battling it - it ended up being easier, faster and more testable to write our own JS for the front-end.
- tantalor 13y agoCan a GWT app be served statically? Do you need a backend? Can't you just compile it to JS+HTML and be done?
- kodablah 13y agoIt absolutely can and I have done it many times back in the day. Granted I have moved on to alternatives these days.
- sebastianavina 13y agosorry for my ignorance, but what is the practical use for this?
- daviddaviddavid 13y agoI love this. One issue: I seem to get the same behavior from "right angle" line mode and the "diagonal" line mode. I would have expected the latter to use the forward back slash characters.
- eridius 13y agoThere is no "diagonal" line mode. You're probably confusing that with the arrow line mode.
- jonesetc 13y agoI made the same mistake and tried multiple times because I assumed it was displaying incorrectly. I think the icon needs work.
- novaleaf 13y agoit would be interesting if they could get a diag mode working though :)
- ygra 13y agoWell, there's still JavE for those things: http://jave.de http://jave.de
- jiayo 13y agoThis reminds me of TheDraw, back in the BBS days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
- OGC 13y agoYeah, i remember when i did something similar in Visual Basic when i was 14..
- l34ch 13y agono you didn't... this is awesome
- suprjami 13y agoI use this all the time for quick network diagrams when explaining things via email.
- tsumnia 13y agoI used this site about 2 years ago when working on a CLI for my old company. Love it and can't wait to use it again. edit: And we just ddos'd it.
- MacsHeadroom 13y agoAaaaaand it's down. "503 Over Quota" Anyone have a mirror?
- el_duderino 13y agohttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.asciiflow.com/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- lewish 13y ago(Site owner here) Sorry that the site is down, it's hard to deal with spikes of traffic like this without over provisioning! Just thought I would chime in, I'm working hard on a complete re-write of ASCIIFlow, killing GWT and moving to canvas + JS while keeping the ASCII look and feel, adding tools to resize things, and making the canvas size infinite and most importantly, supporting mobile! Please get in touch if you have requests. https://github.com/lewish https://github.com/lewish
- avdd_ 13y agoPutting an informative README in your git repository seems a pretty common practice these days.
- giis 13y ago(random user posted the link here) While writing text file design doc I was looking for a way to create boxes and stuffs like and came across your cool site. Just want to share & bookmark it via HN. Sorry for the unexpected traffic :D Thanks for this project !
- devindotcom 13y agounexpected to see an old bookmark of mine here, not that it isn't a great tool! Looking forwrd to the rewrite, and thanks for making this!
- akavel 13y agoThanks for the great tool! By the way, is there a chance you would consider setting up a custom copy of ditaa on your server? The ditaa.org server seems dead quite long already (some year at least, I think? or is it just me?), unfortunately... Also, I'm kinda working on a Go port of ditaa (https://github.com/akavel/ditaa https://github.com/akavel/ditaa), but it's totally work in progress still, and just one of many hobby projects I push forward only from time to time...
- CalumJEadie 13y agoAwesome work! Have been following and using ASCIIFlow for a while now. What was your original motivation for putting it together, did you particularly need it for your work or was it more a fun idea to work on?
- lewish 13y agoIt's back up now.
- _JamesA_ 13y agoThis is awesome. Any suggestions for a slick ascii table formatter?
- konradb 13y agoEmacs org-mode can do tables - not web based though so may not be what you are looking for.
- robgibbons 13y agoI shit a brick when I realized you can copy and paste entire selection areas.
- vitoralmeida 13y agoThis is definitely a useful tool to embed diagrams on source code.
- CalumJEadie 13y agoReally interested to know if you embed ASCII diagrams in your source code / store engineering diagrams in your project repos? My take is that the closer documentation is to the code the more useful it is and more likely it will be updated. Would be great to have your feedback on a side project in this area, a chrome extension / web service to turn Umlet diagrams into SVGs when you're viewing them through GitHub. Check it out at https://github.com/CalumJEadie/umlet-github https://github.com/CalumJEadie/umlet-github.
- vitoralmeida 13y agoThis is definitely a useful tool to embed diagrams on source code.
- shmerl 13y agoNice, but it could be better if it allowed using Unicode box drawing characters as an option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters
- ygra 13y agoThe name wouldn't be very appropriate, then.
- shmerl 13y agoWell, not exactly. For example box drawing characters are included in some extended ASCII tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters#DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters#DOS I don't think it won't fit the name at all as an extra feature (though it only makes sense to use Unicode for that purpose).
- rspeer 13y ago"Extended ASCII" is not ASCII. It's a dated phrase referring to various one-byte-per-character encodings that include ASCII as a subset. Now that UTF-8 exists and is widely used, those encodings are useless until you decode them into Unicode anyway.
- shmerl 13y agoSo what? It's still called extended ASCII. The point is, using Unicode box drawing characters on that site would be appropriate.
- tripzilch 13y agoBox-drawing characters wouldn't give as much of the old school curses terminal hacker vibe. And yes I am aware that they used to use graphical box drawing chars back in the day as well, but right now it's 2014 and it's the aesthetic that counts, too.
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- novaleaf 13y agoi don't get it.... ???
- talklittle 13y agoSun, birds, river?
- AndrewGreen 13y agoFrogger?
- kruipen 13y agoSee also http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm
- peterkelly 13y agoThis needs to be a google doodle.
- craigching 13y agoMan, I wish I had this back in 1992 designing UIs for MS-DOS :) Very nice!
- richardw 13y agoDamn, a customer. One of my final school projects in '91 was a text drawing program. Using it, I was amazed what effects I could get with text, background and foreground colours. Amongst other things it had line drawing, box fill with fg or bg colour.
- craigching 13y agoActually we made use of extended ASCII for our UI at the time ... you know, the solid bar/solid double bar, etc. So this isn't quite where we could have used it, but it's pretty close!
- jablan 13y agoEver tried Borland's Turbo Vision? It came out somewhere around that time and was absolutely fantastic.
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- ozh 13y ago+-------+-----------+----------------+ | Also | supercool | to draw tables | |-------|-----------|----------------| | id | yeah yeah | this all day | | stuff | and so on | long :) | | time | i could do| | +-------+-----------+----------------+
- TeMPOraL 13y ago| not | as | cool | as | orgmode | |-----------------+------------+---------+----------------+------------| | awesome | table | drawing | speed | | | | | | | | | | | | awsome! | auto-align | | | | | | | | emacs | rocks | | good shortcuts | | | | | | | | | lots of exports | latex | | | | | | html | | | | | | text | | | | | | and others | | | | (drew that in 90 seconds)
- ozh 13y agoyeah, but... emacs. Would love something online to draw tables, though.
- ozh 13y agoHoooo, found something neat: http://www.sensefulsolutions.com/2010/10/format-text-as-table.html http://www.sensefulsolutions.com/2010/10/format-text-as-tabl... I'm going to fork this to make sure it never disappears from the intarwebs
- dded 13y agoThe first schematic editor I ever used displayed with Regis graphics [1] on a VT125 terminal. But it only used a small subset of Regis. One escape sequence would put the terminal in a mode that mapped the 8th-bit set bytes to a bunch of arc- and line-segment glyphs that were entirely sufficient to display a circuit schematic. (And the 8th-bit clear bytes retained their ASCII encodings for labels.) Drawing with these characters was very similar to these ascii drawings: one byte gave you a piece of a line (or an arc), and you built a grid of them. The schematic editor took a simple here's-the-grid-coordinate-of-an-element representation of the schematic, adjusted the offsets of the glyphs of that element, and built-up the grid of bytes to send to the terminal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS
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- ozh 13y agoGot the inspiration for some web app searching, finding, forking and tweaking: http://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ http://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
- ca98am79 13y agogreat for mocking up nethack levels!