Re: Design question and ASCII art

You just blew my mind Buck. Generate on the fly? That means it can be more or less dynamic?

I need to think about this.

(Green screen is not as dead as everyone believes it to be, We can still add useful & attractive new features to the old code. Plus its fun to do.)

On 12/6/2013 3:47 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 12/6/2013 4:09 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

I like to use an ASCII text generator to create the headings for programs.

For example: http://martinvt.com/Tools/Figlet/figlet.html

Originally I opened the DDS with SDA and pasted the generated text into
the DSPF. Currently I am defining a CNTFLD and loading that field in
the RPG program and using an array at the bottom of the specs to paste
the ASCII text. Both methods have limitations. Hence the question:

In your opinion is there a better way to do this?

Seems fine to me. If I were to try to enhance this, I'd probably
compile the Unix version of Figlet in PASE and pipe the output to a
stream file. I think that if you scripted it you could call it from RPG
and generate them dynamically.

RPG can read stream files. Whip up a loadFiglet(figletname)
subprocedure that reads the figlet named in the parameter (make your own
stream file hierarchy for them) and load it into a 650 byte character
field. Now you can display them anywhere-ish, as well as print them.

Hope that helps stimulate a discussion.
--buck