FIGlet - Eclipse Plugin

Description

• FIGlet is a tool for converting text to filgetized text like this:

   _____ ___ ____ _      _     _                       _        __
  |  ___|_ _/ ___| | ___| |_  (_)___    ___ ___   ___ | |  _    \ \
  | |_   | | |  _| |/ _ \ __| | / __|  / __/ _ \ / _ \| | (_)____| |
  |  _|  | | |_| | |  __/ |_  | \__ \ | (_| (_) | (_) | |  |_____| |
  |_|   |___\____|_|\___|\__| |_|___/  \___\___/ \___/|_| (_)    | |
                                                                /_/

• Available as plugin for the Eclipse IDE under the CPL1.0
• 195 FIGlet fonts included

Screenshots

Invoke the FIGlet plugin using the context menu in the Java editor:

Choose a nice font in the conversion dialog:

License

• CPL1.0

Download

Current Version 0.1.0 (June 8th, 2003): eclipsefiglet_0.1.0.zip 943KB (Binaries only, the source code will be available in one of the next releases)

Requirements

• Eclipse IDE 2.1 or greater installed

Installation

• Download and unpack the ZIP-file to the eclipse plugin directory (for example "c:\java\eclipse\plugins").
• (Re)start eclipse

Usage

• The "figletize" action is available for text selections through the context menu (popup) over the Java editor.

Author

Markus Gebhard markus@jave.de

Known problems

• The figletize action is only available in the Java editor. Any idea how I can attach it to other editors, too?
• Font category and font selection using the combobox is not convenient. I will change that in one of the next releases.

If you like ascii art have a look at one of my other projects: JavE