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[Blackcat]

I don't know how flexible your curses engine is, and the rendering part, but does it support multiple fonts in/on the same window/surface?

Obviously, all the fonts would have to be the same size, but with two fonts defined, one could be defined as the normal text font, and the second defined as a symbol font.

Normal text is rendered with the normal text font (how surprising), and all the things in the actual game world are drawn with the second font.

Start with both fonts being identical. Spread out the symbol allocations, so that you can get close to "one symbol = one thing".

Result? Editing the symbol font (which you can leave to others) will result in normal text being unaffected, but allowing graphical tiles.

[gimli]

quote:Originally posted by Blackcat:
<STRONG>I don't know how flexible your curses engine is, and the rendering part, but does it support multiple fonts in/on the same window/surface?

Obviously, all the fonts would have to be the same size, but with two fonts defined, one could be defined as the normal text font, and the second defined as a symbol font.

Normal text is rendered with the normal text font (how surprising), and all the things in the actual game world are drawn with the second font.

Start with both fonts being identical. Spread out the symbol allocations, so that you can get close to "one symbol = one thing".

Result? Editing the symbol font (which you can leave to others) will result in normal text being unaffected, but allowing graphical tiles.</STRONG>

I don't think that any serious tile system can be added without a 'support' gfx engine.

[Blackcat]

quote:Originally posted by gimli:

I don't think that any serious tile system can be added without a 'support' gfx engine.

That'll be why I used the words "Quick" and "Simple" in the title.

[imsabbel]

The program doesnt use curses.
It uses opengl, and the letters are alpha-mapped textures.

It IS a perfectly fine graphics engine.
The only limiting factor is that the backend is written in a way that assumes only 255 different tiles.

[Toady One]

Yeah, DF used PDCurses for most of its development, which just prints characters to the screen (so far as I know).  The parts of the program still assuming that leave some tedious pains associated to increasing the numbers.

[Blackcat]

Ah, that's a shame. I was hoping you'd be able to swap the current font on-the-fly, so to speak. By default, you'd display using the symbol font, then to display text you'd swap in the textual font, render it, then swap back to the symbol font. (This assumes that PDCurses allows it, and that you've got text string output going through a separate codepath to single character rendering for the map).

[JT]

Well, at present, it no longer uses PDCurses, but rather OpenGL.  But there's still the nightmare of replacing the old routines with ones that could support proportional text on the screen.