There was a thread on the above subject on Dec 27. I mentioned that I had written such a program and if there was any interest I would update the copy on my ISP server. There was and I did and posted an announcement to that effect on Dec 30. There have been no replies to that post so I assume, because it appeared immediately before the holiday, that it was overlooked by those few who might have been interested in it. If so, it can be found here:
Garyr,
Your program looks like it could use a better way of drawing connections, I believe a similar program called AACircuit (first or second hit in Google goes to the homepage) does this more conveniently, maybe you can get some inspiration from that...
greetings, Tom
Tried it but gave up. I'm on Win2k so I don't know if this is an OS compatibility issue. I just can't get the cursor to go where I wanted. It works fine if all you want to use are the predefined graphics but it doesn't work when I just want use the plain old keyboard. I had to use a workaround of placing a single 'line' where I wanted to type to get the cursor where I wanted. I believe that an ASCII editor should first and foremost be a text editor and have 'graphic' handling capabilities as an added feature (remember, this is me, the one who draws schematics using windows notepad).
I attempted to point out in my Dec. 30 post that this program is not a text editor. It's just a program that facilitates the manipulation of objects selected from a set figures composed of ASCII characters. I used that term in the subject field because that was the subject of the original Dec. 27 post.
I think you are having problems because of a misconception of how text entry is handled. The text entry mode begins when the first character is entered and is indicated by a different cursor. The cursor moves to the right as the characters are entered, indicating where the next character will be placed. The cursor can be moved with the mouse while in this mode but it has no effect except to terminate the mode when the menu bar or the listbox is clicked. Text entry may also be terminated by pressing the escape key. A block of text may be moved, copied or deleted but not edited.
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