Turing for Dummies #1 --> How to do texts

[yetiboy]

Is there a way to change the font/text the user types with? I'd like to match up the user input with what I'm using in Font.Draw.

brad

[DemonWasp]

Not trivially; if you want that effect you'll have to write a bit of code to do it yourself. There's a very similar request in the Turing Help section recently; try looking there for it.

[Insectoid]

I did one in my blackjack program last year. It's not perfect, and I forgot some features but you can see how I went about doing it. There's some hackish code in my implementation but it works and not to shabbily.

[chrisbrown]

Just so you have a starting point:

Begin with an empty string
Read one character at a time using hasch and getch or getchar (trivial difference)
Modify the string, handling the special cases for enter and backspace
Font.Draw the string

@Insectoid: I'm sure you had your reasons for doing so, but drawing one character at a time makes me cringe.

[Insectoid]

I think it was 'cause I didn't want to clear/update the screen and this way I could just draw a box over the old letters to 'erase' it.

[Krocker]

is there a way of adding an entrance effect to Font.Draw?

[Insectoid]

If you mean things like drawing letters one at a time, easy. Just use a for loop and Font.Draw one letter of a string at a time.

[Krocker]

interesting, but no. i meant like fade ins and text swirling into the center, blah, blah. that sort of animation

[Tony]

Yes, but you have to anime all the steps yourself. Similar advice applies -- use for-loops.

[Krocker]

k , nvm

[compnerd101]

hey peoples. srry for reopening this thread after a while, but i have a quick question: how do i color SIMPLE output text. i.e if i put into turing:

code:

put "Hi how are you"

how would i color the "Hi how are you" part to be displayed in the color green upon output?

[Tony]

color

[Fortes]

Is there a way to make the font bold or italic?

[Insectoid]

If I remember correctly, this is only possible via Font.Draw.

[lanceahsi02]

how to print the location of the highest number in the array?