I've created a small online app to draw diagrams in ASCII...

[pwiegers]

Yes, I know, this is sort of commercial.. but how else to get people
to, what I think, is a handy online applicaton?

I created this app because I hate do document :) (Don't we all?)
Sometimes I wanted to make a small diagram to depict what a piece of
PHP-code does, a database relationship diagram, or, wel... But to do
that in ASCII is hard, and not very much fun to do! So, I created this
online app that allows you to draw simple diagrams in ASCII-chars
only, so that you can save them in your comments in code. (You can
also save them in Google Docs, or, well, where ever you want!).

I showed it to some friends of mine; they like it. I needed a way to
get it known to more people.. so, there we go:

http://www.asciidrawer.com

Thats it.... Please don't shout at me for posting it here, but let me
know if you like it?

greetings,
Paul

[Mike P2]

On Jun 5, 2:55 pm, "pwieg...@gmail .com" <pwieg...@gmail .comwrote:

Yes, I know, this is sort of commercial.. but how else to get people
to, what I think, is a handy online applicaton?

I created this app because I hate do document :) (Don't we all?)
Sometimes I wanted to make a small diagram to depict what a piece of
PHP-code does, a database relationship diagram, or, wel... But to do
that in ASCII is hard, and not very much fun to do! So, I created this
online app that allows you to draw simple diagrams in ASCII-chars
only, so that you can save them in your comments in code. (You can
also save them in Google Docs, or, well, where ever you want!).

I showed it to some friends of mine; they like it. I needed a way to
get it known to more people.. so, there we go:

http://www.asciidrawer.com

Thats it.... Please don't shout at me for posting it here, but let me
know if you like it?

greetings,
Paul

It would be nice to be able to move the cursor by clicking. Do you
mean this is to make flow charts?

-Mike PII

[pwiegers]

On Jun 6, 1:54 am, Mike P2 <sumguyovrt...@ gmail.comwrote:

On Jun 5, 2:55 pm, "pwieg...@gmail .com" <pwieg...@gmail .comwrote:

Yes, I know, this is sort of commercial.. but how else to get people
to, what I think, is a handy online applicaton?

I created this app because I hate do document :) (Don't we all?)
Sometimes I wanted to make a small diagram to depict what a piece of
PHP-code does, a database relationship diagram, or, wel... But to do
that in ASCII is hard, and not very much fun to do! So, I created this
online app that allows you to draw simple diagrams in ASCII-chars
only, so that you can save them in your comments in code. (You can
also save them in Google Docs, or, well, where ever you want!).

I showed it to some friends of mine; they like it. I needed a way to
get it known to more people.. so, there we go:

http://www.asciidrawer.com

Thats it.... Please don't shout at me for posting it here, but let me
know if you like it?

greetings,
Paul

It would be nice to be able to move the cursor by clicking. Do you
mean this is to make flow charts?

Well, that is one of those idea's I was looking for! I will try and
implement it...

Yes, it is meant to draw small charts, and, for instance databaase
relationship diagrams.
I've even used it myself to draw a design of a screen and share it on
Google Docs.
I use it myself all the time :)

Do you think it could be usefull?

thanks for taking the time to answer!

Paul

[-Lost]

pw******@gmail. com wrote:

Yes, I know, this is sort of commercial.. but how else to get people
to, what I think, is a handy online applicaton?

I created this app because I hate do document :) (Don't we all?)
Sometimes I wanted to make a small diagram to depict what a piece of
PHP-code does, a database relationship diagram, or, wel... But to do
that in ASCII is hard, and not very much fun to do! So, I created this
online app that allows you to draw simple diagrams in ASCII-chars
only, so that you can save them in your comments in code. (You can
also save them in Google Docs, or, well, where ever you want!).

I showed it to some friends of mine; they like it. I needed a way to
get it known to more people.. so, there we go:

http://www.asciidrawer.com

Thats it.... Please don't shout at me for posting it here, but let me
know if you like it?

I definitely think you need to button up your JavaScript.

It didn't work for me in Firefox 1.5.0.11, Internet Explorer 6, or Opera
9.10.

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[pwiegers]

>

It would be nice to be able to move the cursor by clicking. Do you
mean this is to make flow charts?

I've just implemented this idea! You can now click on the screen, and
the cursor will go there... thanks for this great idea!

Paul

[pwiegers]

On 6 jun, 08:08, -Lost <maventheextraw [e-mail] wrote:

pwieg...@gmail. com wrote:

Yes, I know, this is sort of commercial.. but how else to get people
to, what I think, is a handy online applicaton?

I created this app because I hate do document :) (Don't we all?)
Sometimes I wanted to make a small diagram to depict what a piece of
PHP-code does, a database relationship diagram, or, wel... But to do
that in ASCII is hard, and not very much fun to do! So, I created this
online app that allows you to draw simple diagrams in ASCII-chars
only, so that you can save them in your comments in code. (You can
also save them in Google Docs, or, well, where ever you want!).

I showed it to some friends of mine; they like it. I needed a way to
get it known to more people.. so, there we go:

>
I definitely think you need to button up your JavaScript.

It didn't work for me in Firefox 1.5.0.11, Internet Explorer 6, or Opera
9.10.

I knew about Opera, but it works for my in IE 6 (6.2800.1106), and FF
1.5 :-(((
(Note: on a slow computer, it might take 5 seconds or so to build the
screen...)
Can you tell me what happens? Do you get an JS-error?

thanks for the feedback!

Paul

[averver]

Hi Paul,

Great tool. What a way to efficiently document an application.

Greeetz

[Mike P2]

Some more things:

-vertical bar color needs to change back on backspace as it does when
navigating with arrows

-would be nice if it would use the symbol instead of the number when
holding shift and pressing a number key to the left of backspace (on
US keyboards I mean). probably would also be nice to add localization
for other countries' standard keyboards, a lot of work...

-alt+[number combination] support to directly enter ASCII values would
be cool (like String.fromChar Code() does)

-home and end keys put into practice

By the way, your draw mode is fun...it's like like etch-a-sketch

-Mike PII

[pwiegers]

Hi Mike,

-vertical bar color needs to change back on backspace as it does when
navigating with arrows

This was supposed to happen.. Definitely a bug!

-would be nice if it would use the symbol instead of the number when
holding shift and pressing a number key to the left of backspace (on
US keyboards I mean). probably would also be nice to add localization
for other countries' standard keyboards, a lot of work...

Teah, keyboardhandlin g sucks in JS. I'm thinking about starting a
little OSS side-project to try and solve this. Stopping events from
propagating for instance is a drag, esp. in IE. This needs solving on
a larger bases than just this little programm....

-alt+[number combination] support to directly enter ASCII values would
be cool (like String.fromChar Code() does)

I'm gonna try that :-)

-home and end keys put into practice

Good idea, this can be done easily....

By the way, your draw mode is fun...it's like like etch-a-sketch

Thank you! Your constructive criticism is helping me improve greatly!

Paul

[-Lost]

pw******@gmail. com wrote:

On 6 jun, 08:08, -Lost <maventheextraw [e-mail] wrote:

>pwieg...@gmail .com wrote:

>>Yes, I know, this is sort of commercial.. but how else to get people
to, what I think, is a handy online applicaton?
I created this app because I hate do document :) (Don't we all?)
Sometimes I wanted to make a small diagram to depict what a piece of
PHP-code does, a database relationship diagram, or, wel... But to do
that in ASCII is hard, and not very much fun to do! So, I created this
online app that allows you to draw simple diagrams in ASCII-chars
only, so that you can save them in your comments in code. (You can
also save them in Google Docs, or, well, where ever you want!).
I showed it to some friends of mine; they like it. I needed a way to
get it known to more people.. so, there we go:

>I definitely think you need to button up your JavaScript.

It didn't work for me in Firefox 1.5.0.11, Internet Explorer 6, or Opera
9.10.

I knew about Opera, but it works for my in IE 6 (6.2800.1106), and FF
1.5 :-(((
(Note: on a slow computer, it might take 5 seconds or so to build the
screen...)

Then that should tell you something right there.

Can you tell me what happens? Do you get an JS-error?

Sure I can.

I see aa[x], and aa[fa] has no properties.

Or aa[] is null or not an object.

If I remember correctly [x] is dealing with your ROW and COLUMN
inserting/removing. The [fa] problem occurred when I hit the line
button and the delete everything button.

If I click one of the delete methods before doing *anything* it gives me
a single line running through the vertical center with *78*
(seventy-eight!) "undefined" s.

I noticed today, after having the page loaded in my browser forever. I
actually forgot about it whilst I tried to read your attempt at
obfuscated code. Or was that merely an attempt to minify?

Speaking of minifying, it strikes me really funny that your code is
exactly 500 lines. Well, assuming your beginning braces for functions
and conditionals start on the same line as them.

thanks for the feedback!

Anytime. I would like to offer a few more items for digestion though.

Why not use DOM methods to create and insert the elements you need
instead of relying on the non-standard innerHTML to create *EVERYTHING*?

You realize that you exclude a *WIDE* range of browsers because of the
methods you employ?

Oh, and the only thing that I have *ever* seen work, is the new feature
you added to pinpoint where you click.

I think that's it for now...

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