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i have a console application that models the game of life, and it has over 400 characters in the screen, consisting of spaces, asterisks, and lines (|,-,+)... It redraws every half second... I was wondering if there was a better way to draw it...
a little background info: it's a 2-D array (string) that i'm reading from and simply couting everything... i want to stay simple and with ASCII chars...
probably not much of a better way, is there... :(
>probably not much of a better way, is there...
Not unless you start using a graphics library.
that's what i was afraid of... :(
well... could somebody give me a little background on what a graphics library is?
>could somebody give me a little background on what a graphics library is?
Allegro, TK, OpenGL, DirectX...basically anything that lets you work with pixels instead of characters. From what I've heard, Allegro is the easiest to start with, but TK is cake too. :)