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This tool is a tool to make ascii diagrams
Concept of Boxes
There are a few boxes which mean different things
- Hoverbox
- A grey box moved to the location of the mouse hover
- Activebox
- A green box indicating the current position
- Rightbox
- An orange box indicating the furthest position right,
for a specific text block, used as a helper for deleting a text block when pressing backspace
- Selectbox
- A blue box indicating the selection. Used for Cut and Copy, draw box / line commands
Mouse
- CLICK Moves the location of the boxes to the mouse position
- DRAG Defines the selectbox
Keyboard
- Regular character (a-z and such) Inserts a character at the activeBox, and might shift the rightbox
- Arrow keys Moves the location of the activeBox
- CTRL + Arrow keys Moves the location of the activeBox, but
jumps through simmilar charactes when on a character. Otherwise moves 4
- SHIFT + Arrow keys Defines the selectbox. Can be combined with CTRL
- Backspace / Delete Removes characters. Can be combined with CTRL.
Backspace specifically automaitcally jumps back previous lines in a smart way, the orange box is the right position of where to jump back to
- (Backspace / Delete) + shift Removes the selectbox contents
- Enter Goes to the next line
- ESC Moves the other boxes to the activeBox, and removes the selectBox
- CTRL + C Copies the contents underneath of the selectbox
- CTRL + X Copies the contents underneath of the selectbox, and deletes the contents of the selectbox
- CTRL + V Pastes the contents previously copied from either the selectbox, or the import dialog
- CTRL + V Pastes the contents previously copied from either the selectbox, or the import dialog
- CTRL + B Creates a box around the selectBox. Combined with shift removes it
- CTRL + Either (I, J, K or L) Creates a line around the selectBox, like wasd. Combined with shift removes it
- regular character + arrow keys Keeps drawing the character. Combines well with INSERT mode
- CAPSLOCKShifts the case for all characters, so SHIFT, but as a toggle
- Home / EndMoves the cursor to the end of the text block, or select box, Can be combined with CTRL.
Bottom row buttons
- Help Shows help information
- Export Gets the diagram as text. The entire purpose of this app is for this
- Import Imports regular text so it can be pasted with CTRL + V
- ADVANCE Whether or not the position of activeBox changes from typing.
Turn this off for manual moving with the arrow keys in a nicer way
- CAPS See CAPSLOCK item under keyboard
- TRANSPARENT Makes space characters transparent on paste
- CHARLOCK Keeps drawing the last inputted character. Combines well with INSERT mode