Asciio for electronics and other domains

[nkh]

I added a request for cooperation with the schemascii project

https://github.com/dragoncoder047/schemascii/issues/8

I believe this could lead to better

• stencils
• stencil handling
• hidden object attributes (for export)
• specialized objects
  • rotating
  • with arrow that are always attached to the component

[nkh]

Comparison of current Asciio with application specialized in ASCII Electronics

         .--------------------+.------------ +.---+1.5V
         .         ||  100n  |               *
        .-. 1 .----||.--.    |              .-.
        | | 0 |    ||   |    |              | |
        | | 0 .   ___   |  |<               | |1K
        '-' k o--|___|--o--|                '-'
   L     .    |            |\                .
   E     |    .              |               |
   D          |        1k    .               |
            |/               |               |
   B     o*-|                |               |
   l     .  |>               |               |
   i     |    |              |               |
   n     |    .       \]     |      \]       |
   k     '------).----|]-.---o.-----|]-.-----o
   e          |       /]+    *      /]+      |
   r          |        10µ  .-.         100µ |
              |             | |              |
              |             | |  47Ω         |
              |             '-'              |
              |              *               .
              '--------------o.--------------o.----GND

        .---------------------o--------------o---o +1.5V
        |                     |              |
        |                     |              |
       .-.         ||100n     |             .-.
       | |    .----||----.    |             | |
      100k    |    ||    |    |             | |1k
       '-'    |    ___   |  |<              '-'
        |     o---|___|--o--|                |
        |     |    1k       |\               |
        |   |/                |              |
        o---|                 |              |
   L    |   |>                |              |
   E    |     |               |              |
   D    |     |    \]         |     \]       |
        '-----)----|]---------o-----|]-------o
   B          |    /]+        |     /]+      |
   l          |    10µ       .-.    100µ     |
   i          |              | |             |
   n          |              | |47Ω          V ->
   k          |              '-'             -
   e          |               |              |
   r          '---------------o--------------o---o GND

[nkh]

[nkh]

Not working well enough

• arrows
  • arrows that are one in length use *, that neither looks good nor renders well
  • horizontal arrow, even without head, are ".--------", the dot is a small problem

working well enough

• creating components, any text, non connecting, then add connectors in any shape
• moving over great distance is easy, and keyboard works well for small increments
• adding wire connectors anywhere
• connectors can look like any character
• vertical text

[nkh]

Needed:

• Asciio needs arrow to connect things together, can't take two components and connect them without
• specialized shortcuts
• labels
  • special group where elements can be edited
  • or special group where only the label can be edited but the component can't be changed
    • we could use the title for the label
• a way to rapidly add wires
• moving all components on one axis

[nkh]

User defined objects should be derived from a class that makes it simple (little code and maybe code in any language) to add behavior to the objects.

• resize or not
• how to resize
• accepting connections
• dynamic connectors and types (directions, ...)