Anyone know how to make a lazer writer?

[DaveAngus]

Hey.
I am just wondering if anyone here knows how to create a lazer that writes out any given word/letter.
I am wanting to use that idea for an assignment and I need some help with it.
If anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated!

Thanks a lot,
-Dave

[petree08]

???? draline? perhaps. kinda vauge question

[DaveAngus]

Sorry.
I know that you would have to use a draline
Here is a flash example of what I mean.
just instead of drawing a line it would draw a letter or word


http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Special_Effects/Create_a-Stephen_-216/index.php


Once again,
sorry about the vague question

[BigBear]

If you are talking about the black square at the bottom of the page (sorry if you are not) then you just draw a line on the screen then another one a little bit bigger then for the laser part draw a line from the other end of the laser (always a fixed point) then the other end has the same coordinates to the moving end of the horizontal line. IT should end up something like this

code:

main loop adjust x value of horizontal line bigger draw horizontal line draw laser part from fixed point to left side of horizontal line end loop

Hope this helps.

[DaveAngus]

BigBear @ Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:04 pm wrote:

If you are talking about the black square at the bottom of the page (sorry if you are not) then you just draw a line on the screen then another one a little bit bigger then for the laser part draw a line from the other end of the laser (always a fixed point) then the other end has the same coordinates to the moving end of the horizontal line. IT should end up something like this

code:

main loop adjust x value of horizontal line bigger draw horizontal line draw laser part from fixed point to left side of horizontal line end loop

Hope this helps.

Thanks bigbear.
Helped a lot!

[Carey]

can someone move this the Turing Help section please?

[Sean]

Whas the red dot in the center, using Draw.FillOval.

Then proceed to drawing a line using a For Loop having the x position of the Draw.Line changing to move across the screen, in such a manner.

[LaZ3R]

Turing:

setscreen ("offscreenonly") colorback (black) cls var x : int := maxx - 50 loop     drawfilloval (maxx div 2, maxy div 2, 6, 6, red)     drawline (maxx div 2, maxy div 2, x, 50, brightred)     x -= 1     View.Update     delay (10)     exit when x = 50     cls end loop

You're simply drawing a circle in the centre, and drawinga line between a fixed point (The centre), and the point moving towards the left on the x axis.
Therefore, the only value changing is the x value, and therefore in your loop, you just keep subtracting an amount from x, in this case 1

Fairly straight forward.

Now, using this idea, think about how you could draw letters on the screen as the value of x is increasing or decreasing across the screen.

[DaveAngus]

LaZ3R @ Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:05 pm wrote:

Turing:

setscreen ("offscreenonly") colorback (black) cls var x : int := maxx - 50 loop     drawfilloval (maxx div 2, maxy div 2, 6, 6, red)     drawline (maxx div 2, maxy div 2, x, 50, brightred)     x -= 1     View.Update     delay (10)     exit when x = 50     cls end loop

You're simply drawing a circle in the centre, and drawinga line between a fixed point (The centre), and the point moving towards the left on the x axis.
Therefore, the only value changing is the x value, and therefore in your loop, you just keep subtracting an amount from x, in this case 1

Fairly straight forward.

Now, using this idea, think about how you could draw letters on the screen as the value of x is increasing or decreasing across the screen.

thanks a lot!
Helped me a lot!!!