X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c31e673e93c0e80a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-08 03:43:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Markus Gebhard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Jave 1 - new Release with tons of news Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:43:07 +0200 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 164 Message-ID: <3B20AC3B.FB468A43@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: wn4-jarjar.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de 991997025 18977 172.20.12.141 X-Complaints-To: usenet@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6042 Hi, Ok, it has taken some time, but finally here it is: _ _ _ _ _ .\_/. | | __ ___ _____ / | |__ ___| |_ __ _ _ ||a|| _ | |/ _` \ \ / / _ \ | | '_ \ / _ \ __/ _` | .\_/. `/_\' | |_| | (_| |\ V / __/ | | |_) | __/ || (_| | ||a|| \___/ \__,_| \_/ \___| |_|_.__/ \___|\__\__,_| `/_\' The latest release of my freeware editor can be downloaded now from: http://www.jave.de (Don't forget to download the FIGlet fonts, too) What is it? Jave ("Java Ascii versatile Editor") is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters. It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images. Jave is written in 100% pure Java and so should run on almost every operating system. It is a standalone application and not available as applet. What is new? Have a look at the list below! Let me know what you think about it. Have fun! Markus Ok, here are all the news in this release (well, at least some of them): * Increased performance (should be enormous on some machines) * Improved look and feel * Improved font scaling * Crash recovery: If you restart Jave after a crash it will try to recover the last state of your documents along with most of the undo-history (you should not lose more than one or two steps of editing) * Jave-Movie: You can save your document along with the history of each step of editing as Jave-Movie. It will become clear what this feature is for as soon as I have released the JavePlayer (Open source project) within the next few days. Stay tuned. * New Algorithms for better shape tools: The Tools Freehand, Rectangle, Line, etc. are divided into two different sets: The old ones are called "algorithmic" (colored blue) and there are now new ones called "generic" (colored green), that work a different way. For the generic tools you can always chose one out of 3 styles: XXXXXXXXXXXXX character XXXX XXXX ,o. thick3 XXX __,.. XX ,88 d888oooo_ XX _,.--'' thick2 ,88 `YP8888888bo. XX _,--' _______ d8P 'YYY8888o__,-' _,oo8PPPYYYYYPP8ooo_ ,d8P `Y888b. ,o8PY' ,. 'YY8o. _d8P' _,'XY888o_ o8P' ,888' `Y8o.,d88' line,- X Y888o.d8P ,d888' _d888' /' X Y8888oo._ __,od888P' _,o888PY8b /' X d8Y888888888888888PP' __,oo888PY' Yb thick1 X d8' ``YYPPPPPPYY' d8888PP'' Yb Y' '' Y * Ascii File Browser: Go to menu->file->browse and browse the ascii files on your system. * Brush tool: Finally there is a tool available where you can chose your own brush: +++++-----------+ ++-----------+ +++|||||B+-+-----------+ ++|| Brush :-) | +++|||+++++-|-+++-----------+ +++||++-----------+ +|||+++------+-|||+-----------+ +|||++-----------+ +|+++-----------+++|+----------++|+++-----------+ |++-----------+ +|++-----+++||+-----------+ ++-----------+ +|++++--|||++-----------+ +-----------+ +||||BB+++-----------+ +-----------+ ++++--+-----------+ Edit the characters of the brush (Shift-Space will create a Delete-Character) or use selection tool to select whatever you want to use as brush and chose menu->selection->use as brush. * Mix-Mode With (almost) every tool you can now chose if you want it to work either in mixed or in overwrite mode. In mix mode characters will be merged, e.g.: - and | will become + In combination with the brush tool you can draw lines like that: __ d88b Y88P Brush _____ __d88888b__ _d88888888888b __ ______d888888P Y88888b d88b result when drawing d88888888888P Y8888b _d8888 Y888888888P Y8888b_d88888P Y8888888888P Y8888888P * Rectangle tool/Textbox tool: use whatever characters you want: ______ A.......B +-------+ | | .------. f g | | | | | | f g +-------+ |______| `------' C"""""""D etc. * Selection tool: * Most functions have been moved to menus and are now also available when there is no selection * Improved 3d-look for background/foreground (can be disabled) * Dropping a selection will resize the plate if neccessary * Text tool: Notepad-mode (well, something like an option to switch overwrite/insert) * Eraser tool: increased performance, different shapes and sizes * FIGlet: * Added a simple tool for inserting FIGlet text without using the dialog * FIGlet fonts are now in an extra downloadable package (containing 195fonts) * Increased font compatibility - no more incompatibilities known * Fonts are now divided into categories: styles (Banner, Outline,...), number of lines, year of creation * New Font "benjamin": |3[-|\|.]/-\|\/|||\| * Misc: * Ascii2GIF (menu->file->ascii2gif) * Show/hide watermark using shortcut (Ctrl-P) * Show/hide grid using shortcut (Ctrl-G) * Rot13, uppercase, lowercase * Center, center by the line, align left, align right * Shake lines * Try to repair Ascii Art with shaked lines * In most algorithms the configurable parts have been moved to text files (This makes updates easier) * Holding down SHIFT key when drawing ellipses and rectangles will make them quadratic * Included: readme.txt, history.txt, license.txt * Most important Bugs removed since last release: * Removed non ascii characters from cliparts * Tool options dialog should now be visible on any machine * Many more...