I also struggle with blinking characters (though I assume I'm just not seeing how to do it, rather that it being impossible, as copying and
pasting works just fine) and creating animations (which I assume is actively impossible in PabloDraw, even though it does well in displaying them).
So what does everyone else use, and/or how do they deal with these
issues?
The blinking characters occur if you use a bright colour as a background colour. In standard ansi this can't be done, but should look ok if you enable "iCE" colours.
I don't think PabloDraw can be used for animations, you could try
TheDraw in dosbox (that's what most people used back in the day).
I use PabloDraw, the key is to not use bright colours for the
background, also don't draw in the 80th column.
And don't use it to post in a message base.
There is a new one called mobius which you might like. Or you could use TheDraw.
...what happens if you use ANSI from it to post in a message base? I
mean, ANSI that you've checked to see if it looks okay in, oh, the ANSI gallery.
If you post it from the mystic message editor it will convert it fine, however ANSIs often have lines longer than 80 columns (due to the ANSI
In TheDraw there is an option to save with a maximum width which will
make it look ok. Basically it mangles up the ANSI some more to fit in 80
It still feels wrong to me that the best ANSI editor appears to be a 20-year-old program that requires emulators to run.
I guess there was more demand back then.
Depends on what you want to do with it I guess. I prefer PabloDraw as I said. Mobius is a new one I mentioned that might be more to your liking.
And more people with time and motivation to code utilities for BBSing.
It still feels wrong to me that the best ANSI editor appears to be a 20-year-old program that requires emulators to run.
I prefer TheDraw myself...
I am more familiar with it as I've used the hell out of it...
I'd use the in-Mystic editor (and have done so when touching up PabloDraw images), but it's... limited.
So what does everyone else use, and/or how do they deal with these
issues?
...what happens if you use ANSI from it to post in a message base? I mean, ANSI that you've checked to see if it looks okay in, oh, the AN gallery.
If you post it from the mystic message editor it will convert it fine, however ANSIs often have lines longer than 80 columns (due to the ANSI sequences) mystic wraps messages longer than 80 columns and so they look all mangled.
In TheDraw there is an option to save with a maximum width which will
make it look ok. Basically it mangles up the ANSI some more to fit in 80 columns (by using cursor movement codes to make it look right on screen, ie that line didn't fit in 80 chars, get the next line move up and
across and append it..)
I don't disgree about it having some limitations, but I could use some feedback on what is missing that you'd like to see? For me the number
one issue is that I need to finish the copy/move block options.
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