Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Stephen, to answer your question, I want to be able to change the text independently. The letter d, for example, I might want to show sometimes in white, red, or green. I guess I could make a pic for each though.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Bloch <bl...@adelphi.edu> wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Will Robinson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to do a simple Roguelike game as an exercise in learning the > language, particularly racket/gui. I'm using draw-text to place characters > on the screen. Ideally, I'd just call this once and put up huge string > full of newlines to represent a block of text. My problem is that I want > to have control of the color of each character in this block of text. It > seems to me that the color controls for draw-text are applied to the entire > block at once. Should I just call draw-text for each character in the > block, individually assigning color? That seems to be very slow > computationally, not to mention more work on the poor coder. > > Are characters and their colors orthogonal? That is, can any character > appear in any color, or does a particular character always appear in the > same color? If the latter, I would just create a bunch of images up front > and place them at the desired (x,y) coordinates directly, rather than > re-rendering the text every time. That'll actually be faster. > > >
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