For those that started using computers years ago (pre Y2K) might even recollect the blue screens with white/red text used by installers of most games.
#Monodraw linux series
Similarly, Mododraw uses Unicode to create better diagrams that are more line drawing than series of - and +Įven with pure ASCII characters, you can achieve so much more.
You might have seen plenty of signatures with upside down characters, Japanese characters to create cute characters and so on. It is the unicode characters that come to the rescue. Which is why the text smileys are :) ) :D :P etc, where as there are super large animated stickers and emoji available these days. The diagrams look choppyHmmmm, I would not put that to a matter of preference as diagrams made with ASCII characters do tend to be choppy, after all they can only use the shapes of the characters available. You can do many of the things that you can with most softwares that provide diagramming support. Here is a quick GIF to show you how easy it is to adjust the same. What about smart editing?One of the problems with drawing with text is adjusting the diagrams across rows and columns. If you want to include a class diagram or workflow in the comments, you can simply draw the diagram, export and select the comment style.
#Monodraw linux code
It is an Editor that allows you to create text based diagrams that can be included in your source code or emails and take lesser space and most importantly are part of that document, not an external one. +-+ | +-+Ī short answer to the questions above in a picture (worth more than a thousand words) is Monodraw. * the editor offered most of the main features available in packages focused on creating line diagrams? * the character art used Unicode to smoothen the drawing and look more like lines than chunky blocks of characters? * the editor allowed you to work with the elements like they were layers? * there was something like an Editor that allowed you to draw with ASCII characters? The only issue with this is it can get tedious and painful. You can simply open Notepad and start with adding spaces and then replacing a space with a character to see how they all sit together. OK, So what?The only thing that you ever really need for making ASCII art is ASCII characters and they are all available on the keyboard and in fact you use them on a daily basis whenever you type. PRETTY, though this can be a matter of personal choice, ASCII diagrams can be prettier than plain line diagrams MINIMALISTIC, they are basic and convey what they require without the additional fluffĤ. A screen capture of this very box at 39x39 pixels is 6,878 bytes or approximately 8K as a file on the mac.ģ. Would be 15 characters in ASCII and quite large and visible, however with an Image, that wouldn't even be enough for the header, and could only represent 4 pixels. So a small ASCII box of 5x3 like here below FILE SIZE, they take up as much space as the characters in the drawing unlike images that take up 4 bytes(characters) for every pixel. PORTABLE, you do not require to open them in a separate program or viewerĢ. Why ASCIIThere are a couple of reasons as to why I prefer ASCII drawings.ġ. However, (being old school and as a person that sends out my emails in Plain Text as a Rich Text email adds extra KB's for no reason) I personally prefer to quickly draw a diagram using the keyboard with the ASCII characters, like - or = or +-+
#Monodraw linux mac
If you are serious about this, then you must have used MS Visio on Windows or Omni Graffle on the Mac like I have for years. This is mainly in the form of relationship diagrams or boxes and circles like sets, Venn that explain the relationship. So it is not about drawing but creating a visual representation of the abstract concept. These representations help understand the relationships better.ĭrawing?Developers are not artists. If you are an Enterprise developer, you are already aware of the UML plagued ER diagrams or perhaps class diagrams in Visual Studio or even MindMaps using FreeNode, MindNode etc. To do so, the most commonly used option that I am aware and have seen people use is MS Word, mostly to add a circle to an image to highlight the area of interest. We come across the need to draw a quick picture to help explain something in text as it helps with visual cognitive learning. Anyways, this is not going to be about Art 101. A picture is worth a thousand words and a good one worth a million dollars.
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