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

[pwiegers]

>

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.

Ah! This only happens on the first column, i see... This should be
easy to fix...

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.

That's funny :-)

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*?

I tried the first time. It does not perform in IE :-((( The
performance is very, very bad that way!
I'm creating a page online where I will explain the 3 different way's
I used to create the drawing area - so far, only this one performs...

But that is more something for the javascript-usenet group :-)

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

Well... FF and IE seem to be doing well... that _is_ 99% of the
market....

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

Try to just walk with the cursorkeys a bit, when having pressed the
drawingbuttong. That should leave you with a drawing - it does on
every browser I tried... including Opera, minus Konqueror..?

I think that's it for now...

Again: thanks!

Paul

[shadowman]

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?

Pretty cool. Works much better in FF 2.x than IE7. On IE7 on my system
it was a bit slow, and the help section was screwy.

I had fun playing around with it, be sure to let us know as the app
progresses.

[-Lost]

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

>>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.

Ah! This only happens on the first column, i see... This should be
easy to fix...

>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.

That's funny :-)

>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*?

I tried the first time. It does not perform in IE :-((( The
performance is very, very bad that way!
I'm creating a page online where I will explain the 3 different way's
I used to create the drawing area - so far, only this one performs...

But that is more something for the javascript-usenet group :-)

Yep, and I'll be watching out for your post.

Believe me, if done correctly, DOM code can greatly increase the
efficiency of your code.

I was just benchmarking some code the other day and in a field of 20,000
elements, traversing the childNodes as opposed to seeking with
getElementById yielded that traversing the DOM was 26.25 times faster.

The same can be said about innerHTML as opposed to creating text nodes.

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

Well... FF and IE seem to be doing well... that _is_ 99% of the
market....

No it isn't. Sure it is high, but it is nowhere near 99% I am sure.
You forgot Mac users (Camino, Konqueror, iCab et cetera) and Opera users.

And for God's sakes man, give the users something to see when JavaScript
is disabled.

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

Try to just walk with the cursorkeys a bit, when having pressed the
drawingbuttong. That should leave you with a drawing - it does on
every browser I tried... including Opera, minus Konqueror..?

Aaah, there we go. Internet Explorer 6 has a go at it. Now I get
"console is undefined", *sometimes*. It is remarkably slow though.

Now, in Firefox 1.5.0.11 it runs smooth as silk. *EXCEPT*, clicking on
the copy/paste whatever stuff takes quite a few seconds to load.

This also happens in the loading of both Internet Explorer and Firefox,
where it takes a substantial amount of time to load. In actuality I get
a "warning unresponsive script" in Firefox every time and I have to hit
"continue."

Now, you ready for the big kicker? All this time I think I did not hit
a button before traversing with the keys. For the most part I tried to
hit a button, then draw with the cursor. *sigh*

Good job!

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