a Program to print "Big Letters"

[fumes007]

I need help writing a program where I use small letter to write names in Big letters. (I dont know if you understand what i mean). Follow link to description.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5g1t3ajy7mtu1z/Description.docx

[ajh32]

If I were you I would write a class that takes a letter say 'A' and writes a big letter to stdout. Obviously you would need to work out how to do it but at least it would be re-usable, so you wouldn't have to write similar code for each letter.

Have a bash at it and see where it takes you. Any problems, then report back here with a snippet of your code and description of the problem you have.

[TheBeardedQuack]

Maybe create a class that can kind of replicate a 7-segment display (but since you're using letter, not just numbers you might want a few more segments).

//============\\
|| \\       // ||
||  \\     //  ||
||   \\   //   ||
||====\\=//====||
||    // \\    ||
||   //   \\   ||
||  //     \\  ||
|| //       \\ ||
\\============//

I imagine something like that should cover most upper case letters and numbers (I'm sure you can figure something out if it doesn't), You'd still need to create a derived/instance for each letter but at least there's less work in doing this.

//============\\
||            ||
||            ||
||            ||
||============||
||      \\
||       \\
||        \\
||         \\

P.S. There are special ASCII characters that you can use just to create white squares on the console if you'd rather draw something like this asif it's pixels rather than characters.

[andywestken]

From the document the OP included as a link, the definitions for letters have been provided in the file HW13-BigLetteres.txt; in 9 x 9 matrix format. e.g.

 AAAAAAA
A       A
A       A
AAAAAAAAA
A       A
A       A
A       A
A       A

So step 1 is to read the data from the file into suitable storage. An array of "Letter" classes, maybe? Or just a data array, if classes haven't been covered yet. Or even a vector??

Step 2 would be to write out a single letter (using loops) at a time

Step 3 to modify it to handle a string of letters on one line

And maybe add line wrapping for longer strings as step 4?

Andy

[ne555]

In order to handle an string you've got several options
1. maintain a matrix that represents your display. Write all the letters there, then print the matrix.
a. move the cursor with `gotoxy()' functions, you'll need to use a library like ncurses.
\alpha. work as with scanlines. Traverse the string and print the top line of each letter, then the second line of each letter, and so on.


> From the document the OP included as a link
It was a *.docx. There wasn't a good reason to use such format.
The example input/output would be better seen as text than an image (I understand that that may not be your fault, complain for me)

[Smac89]

I've actually done something like this, but with numbers instead of letters:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/bso2ihd6i3xnbps/Digital.cpp

[fumes007]

From the document the OP included as a link, the definitions for letters have been provided in the file HW13-BigLetteres.txt; in 9 x 9 matrix format. e.g.

AAAAAAA
A A
A A
AAAAAAAAA
A A
A A
A A
A A


So step 1 is to read the data from the file into suitable storage. An array of "Letter" classes, maybe? Or just a data array, if classes haven't been covered yet. Or even a vector??

Step 2 would be to write out a single letter (using loops) at a time

Step 3 to modify it to handle a string of letters on one line

And maybe add line wrapping for longer strings as step 4?

Andy

I still have no clue how to read the file & make it display the information i want