[Gambas-user] Help with DrawingArea and class design

[Ulrich Hartmann]

Hi Tobi,

yes this looks pretty much like what I want to do, just that I need only 
pixel on or off and a way to export it as a C code byte array.

I have a first version which allows me to define character size and edit 
the character, but when I choose character sizes bigger than 20x20 
pixels it takes quite a while to initially draw it (editing works fine 
though).

I currently use a picturebox for each pixel representation so I guess it 
takes a while to initialize all those PictureBoxes...

Thanks

Uli


Am 17.01.2013 15:24, schrieb Tobias Boege:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Ulrich Hartmann wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to create a class which can draw a pixel-font character on screen and would let me edit the pixels (this is for my graphic lcd connected to an arduino project). So I started playing around with the Paint class in Gambas3.
>>
>> So here are my questions:
>>
>> If I wanted to create my own class in which I would need to draw stuff like boxes which represent the characters pixels and make them clickable to activate or deactivate pixels (eg. draw characters), which class would I use to inherit from (DrawAerea?)?
>>
>> Also how would I be able to draw form within my new class when it seems to be only possible to draw in the _Draw event of the DrawingArea (can I hijack the _Draw event insde the new class inherited from DrawigArea to do the drawing)?
>>
>> I guess what I want is more like my own component to display and edit a pixel character.
>>
>> Tips and help would be highly appreciated!
>>
>> Uli
> I once wrote a program for a game project at our school to design 8*8 sqpx
> sprites with a palette of 4 different colours (this system is oriented at
> Nintendo's GameBoy internal workings).
>
> The whole thing is implemented using a CTile class which works on an Image
> object internally. I attached a screenshot of it. Frankly, it is not really
> good for fonts, as you can see :-) Is that of the kind you want to write?
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
>
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