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ASCIIFlow Infinity – ASCII diagrams with export

59 points by tonteldoos 12y ago

vog 12y ago
Great project! I always wanted to write something like this for ASCII art (handwritten, not autogenerated). But I always ended up using a plain text editor for this (http://asciimation.de/ http://asciimation.de/).
- ygra 12y ago
  Isn't there JavE for that (http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/)?
ArekDymalski 12y ago
Very nice. However Google Drive connection doesn't work for me - when I press the button nothing happns. (Win7, Chrome).
reblochon 12y ago
This can be an editor of choice for something like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/asciidiagram http://hackage.haskell.org/package/asciidiagram or http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
unwind 12y ago
Very nice. One tiny thing: I was unable to draw a (totally horizontal) arrow connecting one box to another box to the right. The arrow head merged with the left border of the target box, becoming a "+" instead of a ">".
teddyh 12y ago
Same in Emacs: M-x artist-mode Shift-MouseButton2, select Drawing → Rectangle
- johntaitorg 12y ago
  Yeah, I though of artist-mode immediately! Check this out with M-x org-mode and DITAA... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-ditaa.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d... Also org-mode gives you kick-ass ASCII tables.
kitd 12y ago
I've used this a few times for posting charts and diagrams on usenet groups where most readers are ascii-based and it's great. BTW, many non-techies have older browsers, for which the old version is better suited: http://stable.ascii-flow.appspot.com/#Draw http://stable.ascii-flow.appspot.com/#Draw
qntm 12y ago
Those tools could use tooltips...
torgoguys 12y ago
Cool! Remember TheDraw? (And the many other more advanced DOS ansi editors that followed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw I wonder if anyone has taken the next step and done a more modern full ansi graphics editor. Sure, they're not as practical these days as ASCIIFlow, which has real uses, but it would be fun!

59 points by tonteldoos 12y ago

vog 12y ago

Great project! I always wanted to write something like this for ASCII art (handwritten, not autogenerated). But I always ended up using a plain text editor for this (http://asciimation.de/ http://asciimation.de/).

ygra 12y ago
Isn't there JavE for that (http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/)?

ArekDymalski 12y ago

Very nice. However Google Drive connection doesn't work for me - when I press the button nothing happns. (Win7, Chrome).

reblochon 12y ago

This can be an editor of choice for something like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/asciidiagram http://hackage.haskell.org/package/asciidiagram or http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

unwind 12y ago

Very nice. One tiny thing: I was unable to draw a (totally horizontal) arrow connecting one box to another box to the right. The arrow head merged with the left border of the target box, becoming a "+" instead of a ">".

teddyh 12y ago

Same in Emacs: M-x artist-mode Shift-MouseButton2, select Drawing → Rectangle

johntaitorg 12y ago
Yeah, I though of artist-mode immediately! Check this out with M-x org-mode and DITAA... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-ditaa.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d... Also org-mode gives you kick-ass ASCII tables.

kitd 12y ago

I've used this a few times for posting charts and diagrams on usenet groups where most readers are ascii-based and it's great. BTW, many non-techies have older browsers, for which the old version is better suited: http://stable.ascii-flow.appspot.com/#Draw http://stable.ascii-flow.appspot.com/#Draw

qntm 12y ago

Those tools could use tooltips...

torgoguys 12y ago

Cool! Remember TheDraw? (And the many other more advanced DOS ansi editors that followed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw I wonder if anyone has taken the next step and done a more modern full ansi graphics editor. Sure, they're not as practical these days as ASCIIFlow, which has real uses, but it would be fun!