Today’s Ascii Generator programming time was partly spent trying to work out why the .NET Wizard would let me create any type of new project except for the new C# Windows Application project I wanted, and the rest was spent reinstalling .NET.
In summary – AscgendotNet status: unchanged. Current book I’m reading status: ahead of schedule.
PictureBox is done, and now big images redraw just as fast as small images so adjusting brightness and contrast occurs in real time. Basically, from the outside it now works just as well as it did at the end of last year. Yay!
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The new picturebox is nearly finished. Just need to add in one more thing which will greatly increase the drawing speed for large images.
FXCop compliance is just about done so the code is nice and tight.
As a bonus it’s forced me to add the framework for localization. Once the program is far enough along it’ll be easy to add other languages.
Enabled XP styles, so the program looks all nice and fancy.
To do next:
Port the conversion code.
Selection of an area of the image – Will probably add it into the new PictureBox control.
Come up with a better way for the user to change brightness/contrast values. Probably writing a custom version of the vertical scroll bars to add the current value and display it with some nice graphics.
Removal of FormText and redesign of the main form to add the converted text onto a new tab.
I really do. Work on the new Ascgen took a break, but I’ve started up again and I’ll try and keep this updated.
Current goals:
Answers to common questions:
😕 I’ll think of more later…