Andreas Weber said:
Hi Newsgroup,
I'm the author from AACircuit (Andy's ASCII Circuit) and 3 years
ago, I released the first version of it(formely known as
"ASCII-PAINT").
now I read Gary Richardson's posting:
find >it easier to use than Andy's and it has a few more features.
What do YOU think?
Should I invest time for further development? What should I improve?
Is it too difficult to use my program?
Best regards, Andy
First of all, thanks for the program. It makes it possible to draw
ascii schematics much more quickly than before. Posting schematics to
sci.electronics.basics would be such a pain without it that I wouldn't
do it. (Most people post the output of CAD programs to
alt.binaries.schematics.electronic, but messages there don't get
archived by google, and are much shorter lived than those posted to
sci.electronics.basics)
As far as usability, its pretty good. With respect to Mr Richardson, I
like it better than the python one he posted.
Here are my issues:
1) The arrangement of the scroll bars within the windows is a bit
awkward. When the program starts up on my system, I always have a set
of scroll bars, and then, inside that view, another set of scroll bars
for the components. I'd prefer not to have those outer scroll bars at
all, and have the program simply show the component scroll bar. Also,
being able to resize the inner pane so I could view all the components
at once would be nice.
More components would be nice; a zener diode picture is the main one I
always seem to be missing. Not a big deal. There is a component editor
in recent versions. I havn't played with it, but if one could add,
save, export new components, that would be ideal.
Another thing, it would be really nice to be able to move sections of
the schematic around; I find myself erasing and redoing sections when
I 'paint myself into a corner'. Being able to easily move parts around
with a selection cut and paste scheme would be great. The 'add/delete
lines/columns' scheme isn't as nice as the cut/paste would be.
A final comment is that it would be nice if the program remembered
window location, size, etc.
Again, thanks for the great program.
Regards,
Bob Monsen