Josh Koffman wrote:
>
> Allow me to be the first to submit an actual PIC drawing :)
>
>          ,---v----,
>         -|1     18|-
>         -|2  1  17|-
>         -|3  6  16|-
>         -|4  F  15|-
>         -|5  6  14|-
>         -|6  2  13|-
>         -|7  8  12|-
>         -|8     11|-
>         -|9     10|-
>          '--------'
>
> Enjoy :)


Hi Josh, i've got most of the interface stuff and
wire drawing code done, it's quite pleasant to use with
all the autocorrection stuff that adds the right wire
characters instantly. At the moment it makes wires and
text great, and will save the circuit to a text file
on disk, but I haven't done the parts library or
any of the block move/copy stuff.

All the text drawing programs I've seen work in some
ugly text mode, so i've made this a larger app, in 800 x
600 and 256 colour. This allows a good size circuit
drawing area, and good sized control buttons and library
area. It also allows use of colour and some special
symbols onscreen, (which are converted to plain text
when saving). All geared around the easiest circuit
creation with minimal mouse presses and button presses.

I also added some nifty wire/text attributes, so that if
you do

---R-C--

it calls the R and C "wire" objects so the wiring
autocorrect still works, and

    |  Vcc
----*-----

treats the wires as wires and the text as text. Wires
and text are shown as different colours on screen.
It saves the circuit to file.txt with one button press,
and loads up file.txt when the program runs.
So if you save someone's email circuit as file.txt, then
run the program, it loads up to screen ready for you to
edit it and easy export it after your changes.

If you click on nodes they toggle between joined:

     |
-----*----
     |

and jumped:

     |
-----|----
     |

As usual it's turning into more work than expected,
but it is starting to look and feel very nice.
I will put up something that people can download and
play with tomorrow afternoon. :o)
-Roman

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