EDSCII - an ASCII/ANSI paint tool

[JPL]

Hi folks!  I'm working on a paint tool for ASCII/ANSI art called EDSCII.

It's still at an early stage, but I wanted to start showing it off to get feedback on what potential users would like to see.

Here's a video - some of what makes its interface unique makes more sense in motion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1o8xN6n_tA

You can download a windows EXE of the alpha here:

http://code.google.com/p/vectorpoem/downloads/list

EDSCII is written in Python with PyGame, so you can also easily run from source on windows, OSX and Linux.

Here's the readme:
http://code.google.com/p/vectorpoem/source/browse/trunk/petscii/readme.txt

Here's my todo list, showing what's been done and what I have planned:
http://code.google.com/p/vectorpoem/source/browse/trunk/petscii/todo.txt

I'd love to hear what you think of it!

Here are some screenshots showing off early support for different character sets and color palettes:

[BladeJunker]

I think its pretty good as its fast, intuitive, and well labeled (pickeR, I like that and wish it were standard in every menu in existence that has keyboard shortcuts.  ). Well thought out I must say since the arbitrary character set approach was the best coarse of action and the export format will get a lot of use for native uses for ASCII/ANSI images on all systems that use them.

Line tool is a good start and I look forward to any other common paint tools like Fill when you add them.

I don't quite understand what Erase is doing or how it works?

Its certainly easier than manually inputting such images, that never stopped me though since a family I knew had an old computer and I'd spend hours typing in drawings one line at a time.

Overall very good, I like it.