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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: problems with graphics under TAM
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.114627.27666@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 11:46:27 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.190101.22034@uncecs.edu>
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In article <1991Feb18.190101.22034@uncecs.edu> tcamp@uncecs.edu (Ted A. Campbell) writes:
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"(2) Can we address text to specific pixel locations?
"
"I fear that (under TAM) the answer is no. Everything I read
"and try suggests that text has to be addressed to a character
"cell location, and cannot be addressed to a pixel-specific
"location. But have I missed something? One would think that
"on a bitmapped terminal the placement of text at pixel specific
"locations would be possible. Without this capability, the TAM
"implementation of my software will be seriously retarded.

this is true.  however, you might be able to define your fonts as
icons.  tam allows 64 icons in an iconfile array, so you'd need to
find a way to chain iconfiles...
i've devoted some thought to this with the intent of producing a tam
nethack, with a custom font for fixed things like food and traps, and
custom icons for monsters and the player, and bitmaps for the dungeon.
would it be possible to create a large icon array as a struct of
smaller arrays, thus allowing access to all icons with a single
pointer and using no fancy arithmetic?
nothing coded, though.

p.s. if i remember rightly, icons are limited to 16*16.

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