Comments on: Colour ASCII Art tips, Localization Example and more

By: ghsax64

ghsax64 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:05:53 +0000

I don’t know much about programming but I think I understand how it would work

Would be great, esp. if it was made optional

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:29:02 +0000

It was in a feature request: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1825705&group_id=133786&atid=728167

You know when you adjust the levels or brightness/contrast and you get a line of characters (like a block of “.” and a block of ” “)? This blends it in better, but at the cost of a little detail.

I’m still not sure how to fit it in the program properly (or what level to use), and there’s a few other methods I want to try out before I release anything.

By: ghsax64

ghsax64 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:29:37 +0000

“hard line of characters”?

Where can I see the anonymous tip?

Thanks

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:36:45 +0000

Thanks to an anonymous tip on sourceforge, the next version will have better output through the use of a dithering filter. It removes the old “banding” problem where you would get a hard line of characters.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:54:31 +0000

The ascii art stuff was moved into “List of text editors”, then they removed all external links (which was the whole Ascii Art Converters section). I’d start a Ascgen page but I don’t think I could justify it.

I’m not sure there’s anything I can do about checking for .net at start-up. I’ve been meaning to add a proper installer for ages, and that will also install the framework if needed.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:06:10 +0000

It looks as though the whole section of image to ascii has to been removed. I can understand why the devotees would do that, but there is probably nothing that generates more of an interest in `ascii art’ than such converters.

What may help is if you can put in a .NET Framework checker/downloader at startup. I seem to remember seeing one of those in a .NET executable (not installation file). I think the .NET bit deters a lot of less technical minded people.