I've talked about this in Agoranet before, but I use an ARMHF SoC as my
desktop these days. It's an ODROID XU3-Lite running Ubunto 14 LTS. Its a
nice peppy device; small footprint, low power draw, but lots of computing
power with 8 ARM cores and 2GB of memory. It far and away exceeds all performace benchmarks that my Acer Atom has.

But one thing I hadn't tried yet was to run PabloDraw on it. I've been
meaning to give it a try. It's working find on my Acer Atom running Debian, but I had some doubts about it on ARM.

Well, I downloaded PD, installed mono-complete and gtk-sharp2. I fire it up with 'mono PabloDraw.exe' and lo and behold, I've got a working PD on my best desktop.

Time to start ansifying some things :)

"No matter where you go, there you are!" - Buckaroo Bonzai

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On 10/28/15, Gryphon said the following...

Well, I downloaded PD, installed mono-complete and gtk-sharp2. I fire
it up with 'mono PabloDraw.exe' and lo and behold, I've got a working PD on my best desktop.

Time to start ansifying some things :)

Nice, I use PD and TheDraw but that pends on what I am doing. I had not read all the docs on PD for doing animation, might have to do that sometime. :P

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Nice, I use PD and TheDraw but that pends on what I am doing. I had not read all the docs on PD for doing animation, might have to do that sometime. :P

Pablodraw doesn't do animation. Depending on what you're actually using animation for (ie: are you making animated ansis? Or are you just trying to put the cursor somewhere or make little things happen on a regular ansi like text placement, etc?).. but FYI, everything I've done with Mystic has never needed animation. That's why it's great that Mystic has the X/Y coordinates, delays, etc. You can just open up the ansi in a text editor, add like one line of a bunch of garble that Mystic understands, and have scrolling text on an ansi.. or whatever you want to do, really.

Regards,
Nick
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On 10/29/15, Accession said the following...

Nice, I use PD and TheDraw but that pends on what I am doing. I had n read all the docs on PD for doing animation, might have to do that sometime. :P

Pablodraw doesn't do animation. Depending on what you're actually using animation for (ie: are you making animated ansis? Or are you just trying to put the cursor somewhere or make little things happen on a regular
ansi like text placement, etc?).. but FYI, everything I've done with Mystic has never needed animation. That's why it's great that Mystic has the X/Y coordinates, delays, etc. You can just open up the ansi in a
text editor, add like one line of a bunch of garble that Mystic understands, and have scrolling text on an ansi.. or whatever you want
to do, really.

One of the things I do is re-made the ANSIQUOT which was an animation originally and worked well. So I did the same thing with TheDraw, never
tried to do the same with PD cause the other option is not to just auto clear clear and to be able to save using an option like HOME or NONE. Again never finished reading everything on PD maybe it can. :P

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On 10/29/15, Accession said the following...

Nice, I use PD and TheDraw but that pends on what I am doing. I had n read all the docs on PD for doing animation, might have to do that sometime. :P

Pablodraw doesn't do animation. Depending on what you're actually using animation for (ie: are you making animated ansis? Or are you just trying to put the cursor somewhere or make little things happen on a regular
ansi like text placement, etc?).. but FYI, everything I've done with Mystic has never needed animation. That's why it's great that Mystic has the X/Y coordinates, delays, etc. You can just open up the ansi in a
text editor, add like one line of a bunch of garble that Mystic understands, and have scrolling text on an ansi.. or whatever you want
to do, really.

PB may not be able to edit ansimations, but it will play them just fine.

"No matter where you go, there you are!" - Buckaroo Bonzai

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One of the things I do is re-made the ANSIQUOT which was an animation originally and worked well. So I did the same thing with TheDraw, never tried to do the same with PD cause the other option is not to just auto clear clear and to be able to save using an option like HOME or NONE. Again never finished reading everything on PD maybe it can. :P

Any of the mystic menus that may have once (or still are?) animated, can be done with Pablodraw and a text editor. Pablodraw cannot animate ansis itself. But Mystic can understand X/Y coordinates and MCI codes in an ANSI.

So for instance, your ANSIQUOT menu has like 3 MCI codes or something in the middle of the ansi. You can draw the template you want to use, and then edit it with a text editor, go to the very last character in the file, and add pipe codes for X/Y coordinates, followed by your MCI code. Mystic will interpret that, locate the cursor to where you tell it, and process the MCI code. I haven't needed animation in the 10+ years I've used Mystic (on and off). Now that I'm used to it, it's actually MUCH easier, since it's pretty simple to mess up an animated ansi. An accidental spacebar or something will ruin the whole thing, and you have to start all over. :)

Regards,
Nick
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On 10/30/15, Accession said the following...

So for instance, your ANSIQUOT menu has like 3 MCI codes or something in the middle of the ansi. You can draw the template you want to use, and then edit it with a text editor, go to the very last character in the file, and add pipe codes for X/Y coordinates, followed by your MCI code. Mystic will interpret that, locate the cursor to where you tell it, and process the MCI code. I haven't needed animation in the 10+ years I've used Mystic (on and off). Now that I'm used to it, it's actually MUCH easier, since it's pretty simple to mess up an animated ansi. An accidental spacebar or something will ruin the whole thing, and you have to start all over. :)

I will have to try that out and see how it works for me, =).. I know about
the MCI X/Y codes figured will try them out at some point.

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