I don't think bitmaps are a good idea, keep your font in text
format with characters indexed by code unit:
immutable string[][] font=[
...
[ //'i'
"*",
"*",
"*",
"*",
"*"],
...
[ //'s'
"*",
"*",
"*",
"*",
"*"],
...
];
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:05:40 UTC, aberba wrote:
That doesn't sound like a trivial thing to do. Ha ha
Oh, it isn't that bad if you can get a font as an image file (and
have the code to load such image files... but I do!)
Take a look at my little answer (SPOILERS THOUGH! Maybe skip to
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
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.
On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 at 22:57:06 UTC, aberba wrote:
I've been given a challenge to write texts using asterisks to
form the letters. D happen to have an unlimited amount of
idioms yet i'm out out ideas as to the simplest approach. Task
is to basically take a piece of text and write them as
