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vovchik · #81 Post by **vovchik** » Thu 01 Jun 2017, 12:44

@ all: updated source and Tahr 32-bit binary in first post. Fixed naming bugs (patterns), improved patterns, added patterns.

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User GUI settings:

vovchik_20170601_15h51m59s_creepy-170-metallic.svg|Yikes!|Black|0|#FF00FF|100|1|#FFFF00|#FF0000|↓|0|Corkscrew|47|azure|100|1|#B21818|#595050|↓|0|Normal|0|0|Creepy|105|Normal|0|170|Center|0|100|Metallic|35|1|68|15|4|#B21313|0|430|180|0|-35|<EOR>

vovchik_20170601_15h37m29s_times_(west)-109-solidify.svg|COOL|Crosshatch2|48|#FF00FF|100|1|#FFFF00|#7F3808|↓|0|Splash|79|azure|100|1|#FFF6DD|#443333|↓|0|Normal|0|8|Times (West)|459|Normal|0|109|Center|0|100|Solidify|59|1|58|25|5|#FFFFDD|0|385|138|0|0|<EOR>

vovchik_20170601_14h37m20s_times_(west)-109-solidify.svg|COOL|Crosshatch2|48|#FF00FF|100|1|#FFFF00|#7F3808|↓|0|Trefoil|85|azure|100|1|#FFFFDD|#443333|↓|0|Normal|0|8|Times (West)|459|Normal|0|109|Center|0|100|Solidify|59|1|58|25|5|#FFFFDD|0|385|138|0|0|<EOR>

musher0 · #82 Post by **musher0** » Thu 01 Jun 2017, 14:35

The man is writing the word "cool" in warm color tones!

Ah!

vovchik · #83 Post by **vovchik** » Thu 01 Jun 2017, 15:02

@ musher0: Never even thought about it, but your eye is good and picks things up. I usually just type "asdf", given the 100s of times I have to test things (which gets kind of boring), and, for a change and departing from my usual debugging ritual, I decided to type "cool".

Next time I will do something "blue".

musher0 · #84 Post by **musher0** » Thu 01 Jun 2017, 16:12

No problem! I was just teasing!

My way of saying: "You've done excellent work with this app, vovchik!"

vovchik · #85 Post by **vovchik** » Thu 01 Jun 2017, 21:07

@ musher0: Your wish is my command.

@ all: fixed/debugged some code that could have caused problems in future with added filters/patterns. Added more patterns. Updated source and 32-bit Tahr binary in first post.

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User GUI settings:
vovchik_20170601_22h59m02s_droid_sans-201-glass.svg|cool|Rectangles|76|#FF00FF|100|1|#C4F8F6|#0039FF|↓|0|Hexagon|61|azure|100|1|#DBECFB|#013C5A|↓|0|Normal|0|9|Droid Sans|133|Normal|0|201|Center|0|100|Glass|19|1|100|14|3|#CACACA|1|497|266|0|0|<EOR>

step · #86 Post by **step** » Thu 01 Jun 2017, 21:18

Thanks for posting the user GUI settings

smokey01 · #87 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 03 Jun 2017, 08:06

@Vovchik, is there some way to save, export and import these wonderful designs?

souleau · #88 Post by **souleau** » Sat 03 Jun 2017, 12:38

smokey01 wrote:@Vovchik, is there some way to save, export and import these wonderful designs?

Whenever you save a design, it stores them in a location as an svg, a png, but there is also a log file called txt2svg.log, which serves as a template.
The default location is a folder in the root called txt2svg.
In the logfile are two lines, one for the png and one for the svg.

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root_20170531_11h23m18s_urw_chancery_l-56-metal.svg|Enormously Important<NL>Statement Here|Stroke only|86|#FF00FF|100|1|#FF6100|#FCF2F2|↓|0|Radial|86|azure|100|1|#740707|#595050|↖|3|Normal|0|3|URW Chancery L|23|Normal|0|56|Center|0|100|Metal|34|1|100|3|3|#F9AF74|1|662|184|0|12|<EOR>
root_20170531_11h25m16s_urw_chancery_l-56-metal.svg|Enormously Important<NL>Statement Here|Stroke only|86|#FF00FF|100|1|#FF6100|#FCF2F2|↓|0|Radial|86|azure|100|1|#740707|#070505|↖|3|Normal|0|3|URW Chancery L|23|Normal|0|56|Center|0|100|Metal|34|1|100|3|3|#F9AF74|1|662|184|0|12|<EOR>

If you would paste this code in a text editor, and save it as txt2svg.log, and save it in the ~/txt2svg folder, or append it to the existing code in a txt2svg.log, you could then start up the application, and you will see the template button at the bottom of the window. If you press that you have the option to either load the png or svg version of the image code.
What you would get, provided you have the Chancery font installed (which, probably not, but you could always change it into something else), is the image I posted a while back in this thread.

So yes, totally possible to import/export designs.

vovchik · #89 Post by **vovchik** » Sat 03 Jun 2017, 14:04

@ souleau, smokey01:

Thanks, guys, for testing, ivnestigating and reporting. Actutally, it is even simpler than you might imagine. When you save an image, txt2svg always writes the png and svg files to $HOME/txt2svg. In that same directory, it also creates an entry for that saved design in txt2svg.log. So, in order to ressurect a saved design, simply click the "Template" button way at the bottom, and you will get a list of saved settings (listing of saves). Choose the template you want to ressurect and click the "Load" button. The program will the load the GUI with those earlier saved settings for that image. Eventually the log file might get big and some of the entries (automatic naming for convenience) might seem confusing. You can just load that log file into a text editor (geany, for example) and change the first field to something more meaningful (fields are separated by a "|"). You can also delete some entries, but be careful not to delete any fields. Eventually (soon, I think) I will write a little editor into the code that will facilitate naming those templates after the fact, template deletion, and, if I am up to it and feeling ambitious, even give an image thumbnail preview for purposes of selection, just to make things easy.

@ all: Will be posting an update soon, with a lot more filters and patterns; some of them very nice and/or useful, I think, some less so.

fredx181 · #90 Post by **fredx181** » Sat 03 Jun 2017, 15:38

Hi vovchik,

Thanks for the Template option and all the new improvements !!

I had some trouble with adding one of your example GUI settings
Did copy and paste from your post on a newline in txt2svg.log and loaded fine, but when I saved a next one and clicked the Template button the window was empty.
I think the cause was in the copy/paste with a space at the end (see pic), after removing the space all was fine again.

Fred

smokey01 · #91 Post by **smokey01** » Sun 04 Jun 2017, 00:43

@vovchik, just tried compiling your 3rd June version in Fatdog64-710 like:

bacon txt2svg.bac

and I get the following error:

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# bacon txt2svg.bac
Converting 'txt2svg.bac'... 4221
Syntax error: could not parse line 4221 in file 'txt2svg.bac': "APPEND CONCAT__b2c__string_var( DUMP_GUI__b2c__string_var(1) , NL__b2c__string_var ) TO filelog__b2c__string_var"
#

Cheers

misko_2083 · #92 Post by **misko_2083** » Sun 04 Jun 2017, 03:27

smokey01 wrote:@vovchik, just tried compiling your 3rd June version in Fatdog64-710 like:

bacon txt2svg.bac

and I get the following error:
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# bacon txt2svg.bac
Converting 'txt2svg.bac'... 4221
Syntax error: could not parse line 4221 in file 'txt2svg.bac': "APPEND CONCAT__b2c__string_var( DUMP_GUI__b2c__string_var(1) , NL__b2c__string_var ) TO filelog__b2c__string_var"
#
Cheers

@smokey, it's compiling on Debian Jessie 64bit.
I paste the hug.bac in ~/Downloads/tahr-32-bit-txt2svg/
http://www.basic-converter.org/hug.bac
Then, I use next

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/usr/local/bin/bacon.sh -o -Os -o -fdata-sections -o -ffunction-sections -o -Wl,--gc-sections  ~/Downloads/tahr-32-bit-txt2svg/src/txt2svg.bac

step · #93 Post by **step** » Sun 04 Jun 2017, 05:40

@smokey01, for compiling in Fatdog64-710 you need two things: latest hug.bac (see misko_2083's link, and put it in /usr/share/bacon/libs/); update the bacon compiler (bacon-3.5.4-x86_64-1 from gslapt).

smokey01 · #94 Post by **smokey01** » Sun 04 Jun 2017, 06:32

Thanks step & misko_2083,

I had compiled this before but I had built my own bacon but hadn't installed it. I ran it from the bacon compile directory.

The hug.bac file is not seen in the /usr/share/bacon/libs directory.

Looking at the txt2svg script, hug.bac is being call at ../hug.bac, one level up.

When I changed the txt2svg line from:

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INCLUDE "../hug.bac", WINDOW, BUTTON, HSLIDER, COMBO, EDIT, SPIN, \
	HSEPARATOR, VSEPARATOR, IMAGE, TEXT, GRAB$, GET, SETPROPERTY, \
	FONT, SYNC, TOGGLE, ATTACH, DISPLAY, SCREENSIZE, HUGLIB$, CHECK, \
	HUGOPTIONS, MARK, ENTRY, SHOW, HIDE, CALLBACK, INIT, SET, QUIT, \
	ENABLE, DISABLE, LIST
INIT

to

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INCLUDE "hug.bac", WINDOW, BUTTON, HSLIDER, COMBO, EDIT, SPIN, \
	HSEPARATOR, VSEPARATOR, IMAGE, TEXT, GRAB$, GET, SETPROPERTY, \
	FONT, SYNC, TOGGLE, ATTACH, DISPLAY, SCREENSIZE, HUGLIB$, CHECK, \
	HUGOPTIONS, MARK, ENTRY, SHOW, HIDE, CALLBACK, INIT, SET, QUIT, \
	ENABLE, DISABLE, LIST
INIT

or move the hug.bac file one level up, then it worked.

I had this same problem last time.

I think it would make sense to add the full path to the hug.bac file like:

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INCLUDE "/usr/share/bacon/libs/hug.bac",

at line 84.

Cheers

vovchik · #95 Post by **vovchik** » Sun 04 Jun 2017, 10:49

@ smokey01, step & misko_2083: Thanks, guys, for compiling and testing. The reason I put HUG one level up (which is obvious from the INCLUDE ../) is that I have lots of Bacon projects and create directories for each one. As HUG is in a directory above, I use that one copy for all of them. The reason I do not put it in /usr/share/lib/bacon is that, whicle that may be a convention for some, it isn't for me. I keep all sorts of INCLUDES in the ../ dev dir for any project (canvas includes, gdk includes, gtk includes, motif includes, my own widgets, curses, fltk wrappers etc.). As I have posted at least 800 programs on the BaCon forum, I have a lot of projects and have a need for that type of organization and do not wish to use a system directory "/usr" for source code that is not meant to be universal. And I noticed that misko_2083 is using bacon.sh. While this can be done, using the compiled version (bacon binary) is some 20x faster, and I have to compile and test 20 or 30x a day. I would recommend using the compiled version simply for speed, although the bash version works fine. Have fun, guys, and post your fancy text creations.

If you have ideas regarding filters or patterns, let me know. In future, I think it would be good to include some rotate and skew spinboxes, but that would require modifying the GUI a bit. I am thinking...

smokey01 · #96 Post by **smokey01** » Sun 04 Jun 2017, 12:14

@vovchik, what happened to UserColor?

Or am I going blind? Apparently I am because I eventually found it. The list probably needs to be alphabetised a little better. Maybe it should be first on the list then Transparent.

step · #97 Post by **step** » Mon 05 Jun 2017, 05:08

@smokey01,
you're right, of course, I build txt2svg with an automated Fatdog64 pkgbuild script that doctors the path to hug.bac, but I had forgotten about that.

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sed -i 's#../hug.bac#/usr/share/bacon/libs/hug.bac#' src/txt2svg.bac
...

vovchik · #98 Post by **vovchik** » Mon 05 Jun 2017, 19:02

@ all: UPDATED 5 June (evening) More patterns, some of them useful and nice.

step · #99 Post by **step** » Tue 06 Jun 2017, 10:57

@vovchik,

thank you for the new update. When I run it from a terminal window:

(txt2svg:1780): librsvg-WARNING **: SourceA1pha not found

It it really A1pha or should it be Alpha with an L?

About usability, would you please consider a by-column combo-box lay-out for the sorted lists of filters and fonts instead of the current by-row lay-out? My eyes automatically move top-to-bottom rather than left-to-right when I click a combo-box down-arrow. So the by-row lay-out looks unsorted to me - it takes me longer to find what I'm looking for. It was acceptable when the combo-box contained just a few filters, but now with 72 filters it's time for me to ask. Thank you.

souleau · #100 Post by **souleau** » Tue 06 Jun 2017, 11:36

I feel a bit guilty requesting this, because it will be a challenge to incorporate this in the GUI, but is there perhaps any possibility to implement pattern and filter scaling?

I realize you're probably not jumping at the thought of adding 3 more parameter fields, so I would totally understand if this idea went to the backburner.

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