ANSIpants

Many bug fixes and improvements. The soft launch continues! Canvas • The canvas draws CP437 characters from the IBM VGA 8x16 bitmap, matching the terminal and browser editions. A switch in About turns it off. • New app icon. Characters • The Unicode, CP437 and ASCII pickers use one scrolling grid. Picking a character keeps the picker open. Dragging across the grid adds characters to a Random pool. • ASCII document mode, alongside Unicode and Classic. • F1-F10 stamp glyphs from four banks on Mac and on iPad with a keyboard. • Hovering a character shows it enlarged with its name and code point. Save & Export • Formats are listed by extension: .ansipants, .png (optionally a 1920x1080 frame), .ans, .txt. Clicking an extension writes that one format without closing the sheet. • Save to Photos works on Mac. Save As opens the Mac save panel. • Saving does not overwrite an imported .ans file. Signed art opened for viewing cannot be changed. • A project file carries its presets. Tools • Mirror draws the mirrored side during the stroke. Smudge and Spray mirror too. • Velocity sensitivity has its own slider. Slider values can be typed. • Panspect inspects the cell under the pointer or a hovering Apple Pencil. • Dodge, Burn, Prism and Scatter have a Grays toggle. • With the background set to no color, drawing over a solid block keeps the visible color. • Smudge has FG, BG and Character toggles and a pick-up interval. Tangent is back in the oval options. Half-cell and quarter-cell brushes use the same resolver as the terminal editions. Presets and color • The app opens with preset 1 applied. Picking a tool ends a preset cycle. Presets exchange with the terminal editions. • Colors outside a cycle or random pool are dimmed. • True color documents have a 256 / 16M switch in the color bar. Hex codes and slider numbers can be typed. Layout • The sidebar, labels and status bar use the same layout and wording as the terminal editions. • On Mac and on iPad with a pointer, the status bar describes the control under the pointer. Coordinates follow the pointer. • iPad: the whole canvas is visible at launch. Fullscreen has a bottom bar with Colors, Tools and Presets pages. • iPhone: the Toolbox includes Velocity and color depth for every tool. • In a narrow window, a tab switches the bottom bar between colors and presets. Fixes • The canvas no longer jumps when Clear is armed, a Pencil hovers or a pinch is slow. • A stroke that leaves the canvas stops at the edge and resumes where it re-enters. • Backspace in the Text tool restores what the typing covered. • Fixes to blink, mono and 16-color export, very large exports and 1080 frames of tall art.