Drawing Tool in Console Application

Question

Drawing Tool Drawing tool that draws lines and rectangles using ASCII symbols. Lines can be horizontal vertical or diagonal (45°). If coordinates are not convenient line cannot be drawn. In order to draw a line/rectangle; 1. DrawPoint must be determined first. DrawPoint represents the start point for line drawing or a corner for rectangle drawing. Move cursor to the position. Press F7. 2. Move cursor to the end point for line drawing or opposite corner for rectangle drawing. Press F8/F9. Please help me.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Since graphics are more useful for this few people do this for console programs. Someone else asked this question recently; probably a classmate of yours. I think no one here knows how to do it. You might find sample programs; either old Windows DOS programs or Unix/Linux programs. Very few Windows programmers are written to do what you are asking and very few Windows developers know how. The only use for the program is as a class assignment; my guess is that your instructor has been teaching for many years and has not revised his or her class assignments to be more modern. Do not think in terms of ASCII; there are only 128 ASCII characters none of which are relevant to what you are doing. You need to find a font that does have useful characters. There are fonts that are sometimes called extended ASCII but that is not standard so it is better to just think in terms of which font is which. Windows has Windings fonts; look at them. The most useful fonts would be Unicode fonts. Look in the Unicode.org web site for help with the characters; such as what this shows.