Provided by: asciio_1.51.3-1_all 
NAME
App::Asciio - Plain ASCII diagram
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(O.o) ASCII world domination is near!
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SYNOPSIS
$> perl asciio.pl
DESCRIPTION
It has always been painful to do ASCII diagrams by hand. This perl application allows you
to draw ASCII diagrams in a modern (but simple) graphical interface.
The ASCII graphs can be saved as ASCII or in a format that allows you to modify them
later.
Special thanks go to the Muppet and the gtk-perl group, Gabor Szabo for his help and
advices.
Adam Kennedy coined the cool name.
DOCUMENTATION
Asciio user interface
.-----------------------------------------------------------------.
| Asciio |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| ............................................................... |
| ..............-------------..------------..--------------...... |
| .............| stencils > || asciio > || box |..... |
| .............| Rulers > || computer > || text |..... |
| .............| File > || people > || wirl_arrow |..... |
grid---------->.......'-------------'| divers > || axis |..... |
| ......................^.....'------------'| boxes > |..... |
| ......................|...................| rulers > |..... |
| ......................|...................'--------------'..... |
| ......................|........................................ |
| ......................|........................................ |
| ......................|........................................ |
| ......................|........................................ |
'-----------------------|-----------------------------------------'
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context menu
Press 'F1' for help.
context menu
The context menu allows one to access to Asciio commands.
keyboard shortcuts
All the keyboard commands definitions can be found under asciio/setup/actions/. Among the
commands implemented are:
• select all
• delete
• undo
• group/ungroup
• open / save
• local clipboard operations
• send to front/back
• insert arrow, boxes, text
• ...
The available commands are displayed if you press K.
elements
There are a few elements implemented at the moment.
wirl arrow
An arrow that tries to do what you want. Try rotating the end clockwise then counter
clockwise to see how it acts
^
|
| --------.
| |
'------- |
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O-------------X / |
/ |
/ |
/ v
/
/
v
multi section wirl arrow
A set of whirl arrows connected to each other
.----------. .
| | \ / \
.-------' ^ \ / \
| \ \ / \
| .-----------> \ ' .
| '----. \ /
| | \ /
'--------' '-------'
angled arrow and axis
-------. .-------
\ /
\ /
\ /
/ \
/ \
/ \
------' '-------
^
^ | ^
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
<-------- -------->
/ |\
/ | \
/ | \
v | v
v
box and text
.----------.
| title |
.----------. |----------| ************
| | | body 1 | * *
'----------' | body 2 | ************
'----------'
anything in a box
(\_/) |
edit_me (O.o) <------------'
(> <)
You can also use the 'External commands in box' to direct an external command output to a
box. Default shortcuts are 'x' and CTL + 'x'.
"if" box and "process" box
____________
.--------------. \ \
/ a == b \ \ \ __________
( && ) ) process ) \ \
\ 'string' ne '' / / / ) process )
'--------------' /___________/ /_________/
your own stencils
Take a look at setup/stencils/computer for a stencil example. Stencils listed in
setup/setup.ini will be loaded when Asciio starts.
your own element type
For simple elements, put your design in a box. That should cover 90% of anyone's needs.
You can look in lib/stripes for element implementation examples.
exporting to ASCII
You can export to a file in ASCII format but using the .txt extension.
Exporting to the clipboard is done with ctl + e.
EXAMPLES
User code ^ ^ OS code
\ /
\ /
\ /
User code <----Mode----->OS code
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/ \
/ \
User code v v OS code
.---. .---. .---. .---. .---. .---.
OS API '---' '---' '---' '---' '---' '---'
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v v | v | v
.------------. | .-----------. | .-----.
| Filesystem | | | Scheduler | | | MMU |
'------------' | '-----------' | '-----'
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v | | v
.----. | | .---------.
| IO |<----' | | Network |
'----' | '---------'
| | |
v v v
.---------------------------------------.
| HAL |
'---------------------------------------'
.---------. .---------.
| State 1 | | State 2 |
'---------' '---------'
^ \ ^ \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ v v
****** ****** ******
* T1 * * T2 * * T3 *
****** ****** ******
^ ^ /
\ \ /
\ \ /
\ \ / stimuli
\ \ /
\ \ v
\ .---------.
'--------| State 3 |
'---------'
.--Base::Class::Derived_A
/
.----Base::Class::Derived_B
Something--------. / \
\ / '---Base::Class::Derived::More
Something::else \ / \
\ \ / '-Base::Class::Derived::Deeper
\ \ /
\ \ .-----------Base::Class::Derived_C
\ \ /
'-------Base::Class
/ \ \ \
' \ \ \
| \ \ '---The::Latest
/| \ \ \
With::Some::fantasy' ' \ \ '----The::Latest::Greatest
/| \ \
More::Stuff' ' \ '-I::Am::Running::Out::Of::Ideas
/| \
More::Stuff' ' \
/ '---Last::One
More::Stuff'
____[]
| ___ |
|| || device
||___|| loads
| ooo |------------------------------------------------------------.
| ooo | | | |
| ooo | | | |
'_____' | | |
| | |
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.-------------------. .---------------------------. .-------------------.
| Loadable module C | | Loadable module A | | Loadable module B |
'-------------------' |---------------------------| | (instrumented) |
| | .-----. | '-------------------'
'--------------------->| A.o | | |
calls | '-----' | |
| .------------------. | |
| | A.instrumented.o |<-----------------'
| '------------------' | calls
'---------------------------'
DEPENDENCIES
gnome libraries, gtk, gtk-perl for the gtk version
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
Undoubtedly many as I wrote this as a fun little project where I used no design nor
'methodic' whatsoever.
AUTHOR
Khemir Nadim ibn Hamouda
CPAN ID: NKH
mailto:nadim@khemir.net
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
SUPPORTED OSes
Gentoo
I run gentoo, packages to install gtk-perl exist. Install Asciio with cpan.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD users can now install asciio either by package:
$ pkg_add -r asciio
or from source (out of the ports system) by:
$ cd /usr/ports/graphics/asciio $ make install clean
Thanks to Emanuel Haupt.
Ubuntu and Debian
Ports are on the way.
Windows
Asciio is part of the camelbox distribution and can be found here:
<http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/>. Install, run AsciiO from the 'bin' directory.
.-------------------------------.
/ /|
/ camelbox for win32 / |
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camelbox is a great distribution for windows. I hope it will merge with X-berry series of
Perl distributions.
Mac OsX
This works too (and I have screenshots to prove it :). I don't own a mac and the mac user
hasn't send me how to do it yet.
other unices
YMMV, install gtk-perl and AsciiO from cpan.
SEE ALSO
http://www.jave.de
http://search.cpan.org/~osfameron/Text-JavE-0.0.2/JavE.pm
http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/codeplotter.aspx
http://search.cpan.org/~jpierce/Text-FIGlet-1.06/FIGlet.pm
http://www.fossildraw.com/?gclid=CLanxZXxoJECFRYYEAodnBS8Dg (doesn't always respond)
http://www.ascii-art.de (used some entries as base for the network stencil)
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UmlAsciiArt
http://www.textfiles.com/art/
http://www2.b3ta.com/_bunny/texbunny.gif
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