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- Dear Window-lover,
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- Enclosed is my first Visual Basic program, Pixel Characterizer. The purpose
- of the program is to map each pixel of a small bitmap picture to a character.
- Then you are able to put/edit graph in your non-graphic text/terminal.
- And pretty pictures/icons/signatures can be put in your regular text files.
- Don't hesitate to give it a try. Dump it to your trash if you don't like it.
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- e.g.
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- A Bitmap picture as:
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- Use Pixel Characterizer to convert it to:
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- ** **
- **** ****
- ** ** ** **
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- ** **
- ** **
- ** **
- ** **
- ** **
- ****
- **
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- How to use:
- * you need to have visual basic runtime library 'vbrun200.dll' in you path.
- * use your favorite graphic program/capture utility to obtain
- your bitmap picture in clipboard.
- * click 'Get BitMap' button to paste bitmap to 'Pixel Window'.
- * change number of rows/columns if needed. The default size is 24x72.
- Because the regular terminal is 24x80. I use 72 instead of 80 due to the
- reason of using VI editor(set number is used).
- * change the color number if needed. The default color is black(0).
- * change output character if needed. The default character is '*'.
- * click 'Convert BitMap to ASCII' button to convert bitmap to 'ASCII Window'.
- The converting time depends on the configured number of rows/columns.
- * any pixels which match specified color are converted to the specified
- character; other pixels are converted to space.
- * use 'Send to Clipboard' button to send text in 'ASCII Window' to clipboard.
- * paste text in clipboard to your editor/dumb terminal/e-mail.....
- * enjoy yourself.
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- Contact:
- Users are welcome to send me any comments/bugs/encouragement.
- S.Y. Chen (Sy Chen)
- 120-4 Marshall Drive
- W. Lafayette, IN 47906
- U.S.A.
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- e-mail: sychen@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
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