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in thread Design Software for an LED Display

Ok...

I knew how to access an LoL (sorry, shoulda made that more clear), just not how to turn it back into the compiled form.

I want to be able to click on a light and have it go on/off in that frame. It's more complicated than just scrolling text. It uses borders and such as well. Maybe I'll update later with a screenshot later of the current program.

- p u n k k i d
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein

Update:
Here's a picture of the current program. I am looking to implement something like the dots you see there. The program allows you to move the dots and create lines/boxes and use fonts.

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Re: Re: Re: Design Software for an LED Display
by da (Friar) on Jun 11, 2001 at 21:56 UTC
    Is it possible to take fonts and make the output a series of dots?
    It certainly is. You could use GD or Image::Magick to draw the text in whatever font(s) you like, then read the image pixel by pixel using one of these methods. Take a gander at this or this for some more pixel-by-pixel manipulation info.

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