Re: Newbie Question (take it easy on me fellas) - Creating custom ASCII-style characters
I Own The Letter O wrote:
When I was a child I owned an Amstrad CPC6128 home computer and liked
to fiddle around with the BASIC that came with it. One of my favourite
commands was (memory permitting) something like this;
DATA xyz$ (1, 1, 1, 1, 0, etc)
this allowed you to design your own ASCII-style characters in an 8x8
gird with 1's representing a white dot and 0 not. You could then call
this as you would any other single character.
I'm currently learning C++ (albeit from a book) and was wondering if
there was a similar command for use in console style applications.
I hope that you are able to help me with this and don't bite me to
much.
C++ is a high-level programming language. Access to character
generator is not considered high-level. Such mechanism is usually
part of your platform API (Application Programming Interface) if
it exists at all. Some platforms allow you to do access memory
directly (MS-DOS comes to mind), but since every platform has its
own way of interacting with the display, there is no common ground
that might be defined and built into the language.
It's not to say that it's impossible. It is simply specific to
the platform and the hardware you're using and as such cannot be
part of the language. You would need to ask in the newsgroup
dedicated to the OS you're programming.
V
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