Thread: Increasing Font Size when printing to the screen

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    Increasing Font Size when printing to the screen

    Hello everyone, I was just wondering if there was some way I could increase font size to what my program prints to the screen. For example, if someone could show me where to add the code or function in the "Hello World" program it would be very helpful!

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    I'm using Dev-C++ Ver. 4.9.8.0 compiler.

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    And how are you printing "hello world" at the moment?
    A simple console program, or a more complicated GUI program
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    Forgot to mention that

    Its just a simple console program.

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    If I remember my console properties correctly, the console is only able to display one font size. So changing this purely by the console is not possible. Since the console is made up of certain cells that hold the characters you want to display, in order to display a bigger font size you would have to make the cells bigger, and thus more memory must be reserved to display the characters on screen. I do not beleive console applications are capable of such things, but why would you want too?

    In any case you would have to go another route to display a larger size font, what route I am not sure at the moment. Maybe some more advanced programmers can shed light on this subject for you, because honestly I don't know that much.
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    Preferred Language: C++.

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    Thanks Salem, I'm gonna look into it. And thank you all for your help.

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