On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 at 23:11:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 at 22:57:06 UTC, aberba wrote:
How will you approach this problem in D idiomatically?
Well, I never bother with "idiomatically", so I can't speak to
that, but a simple solution that would work is to realize that
what you're basically asking for here is a bitmap.
Each letter in your "font" would be a little bitmap that you
copy into a destination buffer - itself a larger bitmap.
Then, when it is complete, you can draw the destination buffer
line by line to the screen.
The data for your font may just be a bunch of string arrays in
source, or an actual bitmap file you create outside the program
and load at runtime or something like that. Just remember that
you can't just `buffer ~= letter` - you need to do line by line
since the two bitmaps will have different sizes.
That doesn't sound like a trivial thing to do. Ha ha
