Author Topic: Source code eyecatchers (Read 3855 times)

cncjerry · « **on:** November 24, 2018, 12:21:55 am »

Remember in the old days there would be large eye-catchers at the beginning of source code routines made
out of text characters like:

RRRRRRR
RRRRRRRR
RR RR
RR RR OOOOOO
RRRRRRR OOO OO
RRRRRRR OO OO
RR RR OO OO
RR RR OO OO
RR RR OOOOO

Is there any code out there that creates these?

Thanks,

Jerry

rhodges · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2018, 12:29:42 am »

Look up the "banner" program. ("man banner") It should be on most Unix-like systems.

radar_macgyver · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2018, 12:35:07 am »

http://www.figlet.org/

Bassman59 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2018, 01:40:20 am »

Quote from: rhodges on November 24, 2018, 12:29:42 am

Look up the "banner" program. ("man banner") It should be on most Unix-like systems.

On my mac:

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westfw · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2018, 03:41:09 am »

EMACS has "Picture Mode" that is useful for editing such things."Ascii Art" is a searchable topic - lots of stuff that you can snarf. There might be tools for creating it, too ("Rexpaint"? Assorted "text to ascii art" and even "image to ascii art" tools...
(I wonder if you can still find stuff to generate the 5x over-printed, 6-page wide, line printer art that used to so upset the line printer owners?)

cv007 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2018, 05:39:07 am »

google 'online ascii art' ,first link
create what you want, copy&paste

cncjerry · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2018, 05:45:14 am »

using the term "Banner" was what I needed and found the one below. I remember years ago a centerfold printed on continuous form paper using an IBM 1403 chain printer.

https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/

Thanks,

Jerry

Jan Audio · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2018, 01:32:14 pm »

Quote from: cv007 on November 24, 2018, 05:39:07 am

google 'online ascii art' ,first link

Every person gets different results,
they see how fast you type, etc.

legacy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 24, 2018, 01:46:12 pm »

Quote from: cncjerry on November 24, 2018, 12:21:55 am

Is there any code out there that creates these?

a lot of Linux programs can be compiled with the "asciiart" flag, which includes a library that does what you are asking.

Personally, I have never used because I want my source the neatest possible!

westfw · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2018, 03:16:22 am »

There is this particularly famous one/* Copyright (c) 1983 University of Maryland Computer Science Department */ /* Ultra-hot screen management package Original code copyright (c) James Gosling, January 1980 */ /* Severe munging and destruction by Chris Torek, 1982,1983 */ /**************************************************************** /-------------\ / \ / \ / \ | XXXX XXXX | | XXXX XXXX | | XXX XXX | \ X / --\ XXX /-- | | XXX | | | | | | | I I I I I I I | | I I I I I I | \ / -- -- \-------/ XXX XXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXX XXX ************** * BEWARE!! * ************** All ye who enter here: Most of the code in this module is twisted beyond belief! Tread carefully. If you think you understand it, You Don't, So Look Again. ****************************************************************/

legacy · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2018, 03:20:54 am »

Quote from: westfw on November 25, 2018, 03:16:22 am

There is this particularly famous one
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************** * BEWARE!! * ************** All ye who enter here: Most of the code in this module is twisted beyond belief! Tread carefully. If you think you understand it, You Don't, So Look Again.

this should be applied to the source of EMACS

westfw · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2018, 04:02:34 am »

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this should be applied to the source of EMACS

You do know that that's where it's from, right? Although RMS claims that none of Gosling's code remains in the current versions (as of long ago, in fact. It was a point of some contention, probably partly responsible for FSF/Gnu's OSSW philosophy.)
I was just thinking how different things are now. The last time someone had to optimize text screen output using ANSI escape sequences (and similar) so that it would be usable over 1200bps dialup modems was ... way back when.

Nominal Animal · « **Reply #12 on:** November 28, 2018, 04:55:31 pm »

Quote from: westfw on November 24, 2018, 03:41:09 am

(I wonder if you can still find stuff to generate the 5x over-printed, 6-page wide, line printer art that used to so upset the line printer owners?)

Oh man, that brings up memories. I had a Star LC-10 dot matrix printer, and wrote a program to print a PCX image at "very high resolution" (vertically) by printing each strip at least twice. It was horribly slow, but I really liked the output. It could have been the first program I ever wrote that was actually useful in the real world: I remember printing some diagrams and a map of Zimbabwe for my older brother's presentation at school (for use with an opaque projector). I think he even colored them in by hand...

In Vacuo Veritas · « **Reply #13 on:** November 28, 2018, 07:06:28 pm »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Print_Shop

technix · « **Reply #14 on:** November 28, 2018, 07:39:16 pm »

How does this look like?

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-- @file HelloAX301.vhd
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-- @brief AX301 physical layout file.
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-- @description
-- This file describes the physical layout of Alinx AX301 FPGA learning kit.
--
-- @note
-- When building this module with the matching pinout of the board, make sure
-- the dual-use pins are properly set to FPGA fabric mode.
--
-- @author Max Chan <max@example.org>
-- @date Nov. 11, 2018
-- @version v0r2
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I haven't figured out how to get doxygen to work with VHDL yet, but this is cray to me that I ended up typing out this thing.

Nominal Animal · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2018, 08:03:53 pm »

technix, at least seven of those sixteen lines contains very useful information; that makes it packed with information, compared to an average file

I personally need to start adding SPDX license comments to my examples, like // SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 . I've always hated adding the legalese blurbs.

legacy · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2018, 08:37:26 pm »

Insight costs 250 euro for a single minimal license but it handles this very neatly. It introduces a way to express headers and footnote in a text file by a sort of magic words which make the tool able to visualize the text (talking about C code, VHDL code, whatever is a source code) on the screen with the proper font and size. Brilliant!

bsudbrink · « **Reply #17 on:** November 28, 2018, 08:38:35 pm »

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legacy · « **Reply #18 on:** November 28, 2018, 08:46:42 pm »

Quote from: Nominal Animal on November 28, 2018, 08:03:53 pm

I personally need to start adding SPDX license comments to my examples

yup, no doubt it's so really boring that you risk forgetting it done.

For publishing C code on the web in the form of HTML, I have created a C tool that creates an HTML page

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myC-2-html file.c file.html

I have also added a special flag to add a header concerning the license

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myC-2-html file.c file.html --header license.txt

if not specified, it loads and applies a default license (BSD).

You can do the same, even by a simple cat license.txt file.c > going_to_be_published_file.c_gtbp
I use the file extension c_gtbp to remember that the file already contains the license in its header

so you cannot be wrong

SiliconWizard · « **Reply #19 on:** November 29, 2018, 12:46:44 am »

Quote from: legacy on November 28, 2018, 08:46:42 pm

For publishing C code on the web in the form of HTML, I have created a C tool that creates an HTML page

Does it implement syntax highlighting?

legacy · « **Reply #20 on:** November 29, 2018, 02:18:05 am »

Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 29, 2018, 12:46:44 am

Quote from: legacy on November 28, 2018, 08:46:42 pm
For publishing C code on the web in the form of HTML, I have created a C tool that creates an HTML page

Does it implement syntax highlighting?

currently no, it's super simple, but it can be added.
Do you want the code? I might put it on DTB!

cdev · « **Reply #21 on:** November 29, 2018, 02:49:54 pm »

What I miss are the color ASCII-art animations which used to unroll when you connected to old dial up BBSs.

(Not the same as viewing ASCII-art video in a frame buffer - Now we have libcaca, etc. not the same).

Nominal Animal · « **Reply #22 on:** November 29, 2018, 03:25:14 pm »

You mean ANSI art, cdev?

The "animation" was basically just later parts of the output moving the cursor around, and overwriting stuff, using ANSI escape codes for colors and moving the cursor; and non-ASCII characters. CP-437 with box drawing and block elements was one common one used, if I recall correctly. Because of low modem baud rates, it felt like animation.

SparkyFX · « **Reply #23 on:** November 29, 2018, 03:44:17 pm »

Yeah, at some point those animations got too fast to keep reading it while it scrolled down the screen. And so "more" was born.

cdev · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2018, 11:00:33 pm »

Yes, thank you!

of course that (ANSI-escape-code-art) is what I meant.

Now you all can tell. I am very very old.

Quote from: Nominal Animal on November 29, 2018, 03:25:14 pm

You mean ANSI art, cdev? The "animation" was basically just later parts of the output moving the cursor around, and overwriting stuff, using ANSI escape codes for colors and moving the cursor; and non-ASCII characters. CP-437 with box drawing and block elements was one common one used, if I recall correctly. Because of low modem baud rates, it felt like animation.


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