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From: mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP)
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Subject: Re: Interesting question.
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:16:19 +0200, "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)" <lastfuture@lastfuture.de> wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:04:53 +0300, "Sara Gardener"
><saragardener@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>How you imagine  GUI in ascii?
>>
>>For example, try to draw alarm clock from http://www.brigsoft.com ;-)
>
>with so many complex and tiny elements it would be hella difficult to
>make an ascii gui if you can't change the on-screen font size... if
>you can it would be managable IMO


too true, this for example is the rough outline of the GUI mentioned,
the GUI in THIS case left no room for the actual data due to the font restriction


        ,,--''''`--._
     ,-'             `._ _______________________________
   ,'                   .  (__________________________) `-.
  /                      `._____________________________  |
 /          |             \ +------------------+  _____ `;|
.'          '.             ||                  | [_____] ||
|         _,-'             ||                  | [_____] ||
 |     ,,-                 ||                  |         ||
 \    '                   / |                  |         ||
  `                      /  |                  |         ||
   '\                  ,'   +------------------+         ||
     '-._           ,,'      (_)            (_)   _____  ||
        .`--....,--'                   __   __   [_____] ||
        | ()   (*)  ()                |__| |__|  [_____] ||
        | []                                             ||
        |                 ____________________________   ||
        | (*)            /|                          |\  ||
        |                ||                          ||  ||
        | ()             \+--------------------------+/  |;
        `------------------------------------------------'
by the time (no pun intended) you were able to input data
the thing would be quite a few times (no pun intended) this size.

*shrug*


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