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From: Veronica Karlsson <e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se>
Subject: Re: HELP!!! How to save animated ascii
Date: 1997/07/13
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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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