Next version: Globalization + Save and Print Colour Images
Just as a heads-up, the next version of the program will include the ability to translate it into whatever language you want (or change words to make them sound rude).
Originally I planned to use the inbuilt globalization stuff, but it’s unbelievable how complex it makes everything. Instead I’ve come up with my own easy system that piggybacks on the existing resource class and loads the strings from an external xml file.
The current full list of translation strings is here:
http://ascgen2.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/ascgen2/ascgen2/translation.xml
You can use any or all of these by translating the strings inside the
It will also finally come with saving to colour image files, and printing in colour. Which was much harder then the translation stuff.
I’m not sure whether to have the version number as 0.8.3 or 0.9.0. Maybe 0.8.5?
Plus, I’ve changed http://www.jmsoftware.co.uk/ into a blog so I can start posting more off topic stuff without cluttering this one up, and I hope to start posting regularly soon. It also hosts a few random little programs.
Beta 7.0 Released – COLOR OUTPUT
Changes in this version:
Added “Save as Colour Text” to output as html and rtf files with the Color information added
Added menu links to the report a bug and feature request pages
Changed batch conversion form from contextmenus to contextmenustrips
Added saving as html files
Now don’t say I don’t do anything for you people.
What the
Either sourceforge’s stats are messed up, or the program was downloaded 10,068 times yesterday (up from the usual ~150 a day). Since it says that only 2838 people have downloaded the latest exe, I think it’s a bug.
No promises, but I’ve just read an article on colouring richtextbox text that I might be able to adapt for a certain oft-requested feature. I tried something very similar using the same method, and it looks like I gave up just before I found the answer. If it updates with a good speed everything else is easy; we’ll see…
Image to Color/Colour ASCII Art Conversions
2006 is try the stuff people keep bugging me about year. So… I was getting nowhere speeding up the variable width conversions, and decided to have a go at colouring the output.