Expected: Downloading should always save the displayed ascii.
To replicate:

1. Click on Choose File and select a different supported file.
2. Click Submit. The selected image should be shown below in ASCII.
3. Press Download as png file and save file locally.
4. Open the saved PNG image.

The saved image has the default image - ZTM logo - instead of the new image.

• Add features for web app where users can upload image and get ascii art, even download the output file for the same
• Ping down to get assigned for this enhancement.

Add automated testing to ensure it works as intended after changes are made

Whenever I run python3 ./community_version.py -i image_path, the program still ask for the image path. Inputting the path again does not resolve the problem. It hangs in there asking for a new input.

Anyone know how to properly run the program?

I believe that the "" need to be replaced by a ,

Originally posted by @ndeoligence in #42 (comment)

Add logging to assist with debugging. Here is a blog on logging for those who have never done it before.

Need proper html meta tags and just a few styling to the webpage

Convert the ASCII file from .txt to .png or any other image format

I think this would be much easier if anyone using wants to set the file as their wallpaper, etc.

After an update to app.py dotenv needs adding to requirements.txt.

Cheers

Bob

Unable to find directory error in flask app --> Choose file form

More than adding issues it would be better to have a discussion tab.

With best regards,

Should I deploy this project or is zero-to-mastery going to host this project ?

I'd like to use Poetry for this.
But I'll add a requirements file - for anyone unfamiliar, so it's beginner-friendly.

But Poetry should help with packaging, since some GUI implementations might wanna add this as a dependency.

Animation of The ASCII.

I think that would look really nice and it would be much better than downloading this.

With best regards,
Ranuga

I added default directories to the keyfile for both gui.py and app.py.
I was able to successfully test gui.py.

However, I need additional guidance/documentation on how to correctly initialize the webapp for app.py. Even when running from master I encounter errors due to not having the root directory './webapp/*'. I used both flask run and python app.py to initialize the webapp. Are there other steps necessary for the webapp to initialize the default directory?

Update(2021-10-09_21:05ct): I manually created the directories ./webapp/* and was able to successfully execute the app.

Originally posted by @ckosa in #42 (comment)

How can I help with this project?

I would recommend adding a project tab for this repo so we can see what is to do and what is currently doing and what is done.

I think it would be really easy for new contributors.

With best regards,
Ranuga

The code currently always produces an ascii file when you run it. Which is not cool if you just want it printed out. In fact, there's no way to stop the file from being written to disk. And other will add more functionality soon.

We need a way to tell the program what to do when calling it. This is usually done using command-line arguments. (Like how you can call python like this: python -m venv /path/to/venv

We need a way for our program to handle the same type of input. Something like: ./community-version.py --image example/ztm-logo.png --output ztm-logo.txt

That would tell it to open the ztm-logo.png and write the ascii to ztm-logo.txt. When run without --output, maybe it should just print to stdout

It might be fun if the user can change the ascii key .txt file via the app and change the look of the output.

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This is a side question

When we choose to out file the ascii image in a txt file the program creates a txt but still show the image in console.
Can I fix this issue?

Hosting

I can host this project in Heroku if we need to.

Should we host this now or should we wait for some more time?

With best regards,
Ranuga

• modularizing the code will makes it easy to import and use in other programs.
• Even keeping in PyPi.