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Pendo826
Pendo826

Reputation: 1002

How to make C++ menu text

I'm making a text based adventure game. I want to have the game name (marooned) in large or made out of lines. How can I do this?

An example of what I want is something like this:

╔═╗╔═╗───╔╗────────╔╗────╔╗─╔╗──╔╗╔╗────╔═══╦╗ ║║╚╝║║───║║────────║║────║║─║║──║║║║────╚╗╔╗║║ ║╔╗╔╗╠══╦╣║╔╦══╦╗─╔╣║╔══╗║╚═╝╠══╣║║║╔══╗─║║║║╚═╦══╦══╦══╗* ║║║║║║╔╗╠╣╚╝╣╔╗║║─║║║║╔╗║║╔═╗║║═╣║║║║╔╗║─║║║║╔╗║╔╗║╔╗║║═╣ ║║║║║║╔╗║║╔╗╣╔╗║╚═╝║╚╣╔╗║║║─║║║═╣╚╣╚╣╔╗║╔╝╚╝║║║║╚╝║╚╝║║═╣ ╚╝╚╝╚╩╝╚╩╩╝╚╩╝╚╩═╗╔╩═╩╝╚╝╚╝─╚╩══╩═╩═╩╝╚╝╚═══╩╝╚╩══╣╔═╩══╝ ───────────────╔═╝║───────────────────────────────║║ ───────────────╚══╝───────────────────────────────╚╝

but more visible. And also when this is compiled it comes out in ?'s. So I need the text to be compiler friendly.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1421

Answers (2)

ILikePizza555
ILikePizza555

Reputation: 73

There are multiple ways to do this.

The easiest way is to cout (char)<ASCII character code here> which will allow you to print those border characters instead of underscores and dashes.

A list of ASCII characters and their codes is at http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/ascii/.

You could also try dumping all that text in separate text file, read and parse the file, and then print it to the console.

Something like this:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

int main() {
    std::ifstream reader("art.txt"); //Load the text
    std::string art = parseart(reader); //Parse the file
    std::cout << art << std::endl; //Print

    reader.close();
    return 0;
}

std::string parseart(std::ifstream& File) {
   std::string parsedfile;

   if(File) {
       while(File.good()) {
           std::string tmpline;
           std::getline(File, tmpline);
           tmpline += "\n";

           parsedfile += tmpline;
       }
       return parsedfile;
   } else {
       //Error
   }

Upvotes: 0

Matteo Italia
Matteo Italia

Reputation: 126937

On Windows, go with wide string literals:

wchar_t * titleStr= L"╔═╗╔═╗───╔╗────────╔╗────╔╗─╔╗──╔╗╔╗────╔═══╦╗\n"
                    L"║║╚╝║║───║║────────║║────║║─║║──║║║║────╚╗╔╗║║\n"
                    L"║╔╗╔╗╠══╦╣║╔╦══╦╗─╔╣║╔══╗║╚═╝╠══╣║║║╔══╗─║║║║╚═╦══╦══╦══╗*\n"
                    L"║║║║║║╔╗╠╣╚╝╣╔╗║║─║║║║╔╗║║╔═╗║║═╣║║║║╔╗║─║║║║╔╗║╔╗║╔╗║║═╣ \n"
                    L"║║║║║║╔╗║║╔╗╣╔╗║╚═╝║╚╣╔╗║║║─║║║═╣╚╣╚╣╔╗║╔╝╚╝║║║║╚╝║╚╝║║═╣ \n"
                    L"╚╝╚╝╚╩╝╚╩╩╝╚╩╝╚╩═╗╔╩═╩╝╚╝╚╝─╚╩══╩═╩═╩╝╚╝╚═══╩╝╚╩══╣╔═╩══╝ \n"
                    L"───────────────╔═╝║───────────────────────────────║║ \n"
                    L"───────────────╚══╝───────────────────────────────╚╝\n"
std::wcout<<titleStr;

Upvotes: 3

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