mtatton / icy_draw

IcyDraw

IcyDraw is the successor of MysticDraw an Ansi drawing tool I developed 1996 and last updated 2003. Due to lack on feedback I lost interest there. Now 20 years later I've decided to give it an update and here it is.

IcyDraw is a full features ansi drawing tool doing things a bit different than other tools.

Features

• Full CP437 support
• Runs on Linux, Mac & Windows (Linux recommended - but looks best on Mac)
• The model is more like modern graphic tools rather than AcidDraw (draw lines/fill/brushes etc.)
• File formats import/export: Ansi, Ascii, Artworx ADF, Avatar, BIN, XBIN, PCBoard, iCE, Tundra Draw
• Export files to .png
• Own custom .png based file format: .ice
• Layer model & transparent chars
• Free selections & select by attribute/chars etc.
• Can open multiple files
• Like Mystic draw full TDF font support, including creating/altering fonts
• Font editor for tdf fonts
• Built in font editor for bit fonts
  • Supports the usage of multiple bit fonts in the same file.
  • Preview font changes in all open files
• Suports full RGB colors
• Sixel support - just paste an image
• Shares the engine with IcyTerm and IcyView so it's 100% compatible
• Palette loading (.pal JASC, Paint.NET .txt, GIMP .gpl and .hex files supported)
• Complex animation engine (export to ansimation or animated gif)
  • Note: Icy Term can display animations without flickering (as well as any other client with a propert DCS macro implementation)
• LUA based plugins
• Many display options, guides, grids, line numbers
• Full SAUCE support including 9px & aspect ratio display
• 3d accelerated output & output filters

File structure

IcyDraw stores data only in one directory (~/.config/icy_draw on linux) - it doesn't scatter data around.

There are several folders:

path	Description
data/fonts/	Stores bit fonts
data/tdf/	Stores tdf fonts
data/palettes/	Stores palettes
data/plugins/	Stores plugins
autosave/	Autosave data
settings.json	IcyDraw settings
character_sets.json	Character set mappings
key_bindings.json	Keybind settings
recent_files.json	MRU file list
icy_draw.log	IcyDraw log file

Note that fonts/palettes etc. do not need to be unzipped. Just throw a .zip file in there containing fonts and IcyDraw will pick them up.

What it can't yet do, but potentially will be implemented

• Full Unicode support
• By layer transparency (esp. useful for animations - as well as by layer filters)
• PETSCII, ATSCII and Viewdata - the engine can do it (see icy_term)
• Server capabilities

Help

Contributions are welcome. But also testing & bug reporting or feature requests.

If you can't/want to contriubte code you can donate via paypal to [email protected]