Re: Newbie Question (take it easy on me fellas) - Creating custom
ASCII-style characters
On Feb 19, 4:59 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
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.
Actually, it's a multi-paradigm language, and can be quite
effective for low level programming as well. However...
Access to character generator is not considered high-level.
Above all, it's not considered portable.
Off hand, I don't know of any machine today which represents
characters as an 8x8 grid of dots. Display hardware (and
printers) have become a lot more sophisticated. Of course, it's
possible to do this sort of thing, but it involves accessing the
low level graphical routines of your GUI interface. (Which is
basically another way of saying what you said----except that I'd
like to point out that under Windows or Unix, it's going to be a
lot more difficult than just specifying an 8x8 grid of dots.)
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