Dot Matrix Font

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Andy_A	Created : 05 September 2008 Edited : 05 September 2008 System : Windows Language : Blitz Dot Matrix Font A font for 'Retro' projects
Play with the 'scale' and 'dotSize' parameters AppTitle "Dot Matrix Font" Global sw%, sh% Const fntWide% = 8 Const fntHigh% = 12 screen% = 1 Select screen Case 1: sw% = 800: sh% = 600 Case 2: sw% = 1024: sh% = 768 Case 3: sw% = 1280: sh% = 1024 Case 4: sw% = 1600: sh% = 1200 End Select Graphics sw, sh , 32, 2 SetBuffer BackBuffer() Dim char%(255,11), pow2%(fntWide-1), colr%(fntHigh,3) ;store powers of 2 in pow2() array For i = 0 To fntWide-1 pow2%(i) = 2^i Next Restore dotMatrixData ;read in data and store in char() array For i = 0 To 252 Step 4 Read hexNum$ counter = 1 For j = 0 To 3 For k = 0 To 11 char(i+j,k) = hex2dec(Mid$(hexNum$,counter,2)) counter = counter + 2 Next Next Next Color 0,255,0 st = MilliSecs() ;play with scale and 'dotSize' for different looks (last two parameters) dotMatrix(50,30,"Dot Matrix Font", 6, 5) dotMatrix(10,100,"A scalable dot matrix font for Blitz+ and Blitz3D",2,2) tx = 10 ty = 220 For i = 0 To 224 Step 32 msg$ = "" For j = 0 To 31 msg$ = msg$ + Chr$(i+j) Next dotMatrix(tx, ty, msg$, 3, 3) ty = ty + 42 Next et = MilliSecs()-st dotMatrix(10, 570, "Elapsed Rendering Time: "+et+" milliseconds", 1,1) Flip WaitMouse() End Function hex2dec(hexNum$) Local hLen%, hx$, ms$, ls$, hi%, lo% hLen% = Len(hexNum$) If hLen% > 2 Then RuntimeError "Hex number is too big!" hx$ = "0123456789ABCDEF" hexNum$ = Upper(hexNum$) ms$ = Mid(hexNum$,1,1) ls$ = Mid(hexNum$,2,1) hi% = Instr(hx$, ms$)-1 lo% = Instr(hx$, ls$)-1 Return (hi Shl 4) + lo End Function ;============================================================= ; Function dotMatrix ;============================================================= ; x%, y% are the coordinates where message appears on screen ; msg$ is the text you wish to display ; scale% changes the size of the individual letters ; dotSize% allows different sized 'dots' to create the letters ;============================================================= Function dotMatrix(x%, y%, msg$, scale%, dotSize%) Local ox%, oy%, powMax%, h%, ltr%, j%, i%, chkBit% ox% = dotSize% Shr 1 oy% = ox% powMax% = fntWide% - 1 If msg$ <> "" Then For h% = 1 To Len(msg$) ltr% = Asc(Mid$(msg$, h% ,1)) For j% = 0 To fntHigh% - 1 For i% = 0 To powMax% chkBit% = char%(ltr%, j%) And pow2(powMax% - i%) If chkBit% > 0 Then Oval x% + i% * scale% - ox%, y% + j% * scale% - oy%, dotSize%, dotSize%, True ;Comment line above and un-comment line below for a different look ;Rect x% + i% * scale% - ox%, y% + j% * scale% - oy%, dotSize%, dotSize%, True End If Next Next x% = x% + fntWide% * scale% Next End If End Function .dotMatrixData Data "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF007EC381A581BD99C37E0000007EFFFFDBFFC3E7FF7E0000000044EEFEFEFE7C38100000" Data "0010387CFEFE7C381000000000183C3CFFE7E718187E000000183C7EFFFF7E18187E0000000000003C7E7E3C00000000" Data "FFFFFFFFC38181C3FFFFFFFF00003C7E664242667E3C0000FFFFC38199BDBD9981C3FFFF003E0E3A72F8CCCCCC780000" Data "003C6666663C187E18180000001F19191F181878F8700000007F637F63636367E7E6C000000018DB7EE7E77EDB180000" Data 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Friday, 05 September 2008, 08:26
Jayenkai	Cool! Probably best to render those to little image-font tiles, first, though, or it'd be too slow. But yeah, it's a lovely retro dotty font, with a nice big smiley face

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