ASCII Art UI Controls

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If you do web-based user interface design and keep all your development notes in Tasks Pro™, you may find yourself needing to put diagrams (something drawn on the board) into task notes.

The first thing you’ll want to do is check the fixed-width font option so you can create your ASCII art.

Next, you can copy-paste these templates to save you some time. :)

Text field:

Label:       [__________________]

Drop down:

Label:       [________________|v]

UPDATE: I moved everything to this text file since I was getting rendering problems here.

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Posted February 2nd, 2005 @ 11:38 PM

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  1. alexking.org: Blog adds this Trackback:

    Ultimate Electronic Brain

    For the last 5 years or so I’ve been in search of the best way to take notes, record ideas, keep track of my tasks (yes, this is why Tasks was originally created), etc. I won’t keep you in suspense, I still don’t have a perfect solution.

    Here are…

    April 14th, 2005 at 8:54 pm

  2. Musei milano adds this Comment:

    This could be a big time-saver, thanks for posting.

    May 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am

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