[GreenKeys] RTTY Art JAVA Viewer Facelift

[William Bytheway]

Gang,

The main need seems to be with editing/fixing/repairing a Baudot picture
tape.  The "X0X0X" concept sounds like a lot of work.  I'm having trouble
visualizing the Space shuttle launch by Jim Walls - K6CCC.

Why not create a custom RTTYArt line editor, one that displays both PIX and
POX on a page, allows one to select and edit the line and retain the
original cr-cr-lf sequences.  Much easier to create such a program and work
with the pictures.  What you saw would be what you got!

A program could be created in a couple of evenings.  Simple design, here is
the pseudo-code.

1.  Select and read in a PIX or POX text-format file.
2.  Store and display each line in a scrollable text list box.
3.  Replace the 'lf' with a '^' and 'cf' with a '<'.
    a.  Neither character exist in the Baudot code.
    b.  A POX would display a "<<" at the end of the first line,
        and a "<<^" at the end of the last overstrike line.
    c.  A PIX would simply show a "<<^" for cr-cr-lf sequence
4.  Check for valid Baudot character set and repair if necessary.
5.  Double-click on a list box line and bring up a single line
    text edit window. Fix the error and save the results back
    into the text list box.
6.  Single-click and select an option to add or delete a line.
7.  Save the changes into a new POX or PIX text-format file.
    The '^' and '<' would be converted back into a 'lf' and 'cr'.

73,
K7TTY

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Camp [mailto:ham at cq.nu]
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:00 AM
To: Tom Jennings; Greenkeys ((E-mail))
Cc: William Bytheway; John Foust
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RTTY Art JAVA Viewer Facelift


Hi

The nice thing about doing it with the x's and o's is that it is pure
ASCII. You can edit it with just about anything at all. . . . . . .