jessecrossen / ttsim

A simulator for the Turing Tumble
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Add a text box to the board #21

Open gemerat1 opened 4 years ago

gemerat1 commented 4 years ago

Hello, Along the board, it would be nice to see a text box (nothing fancy, just plain text without formatting) where to store a kilobyte of comments. It would help the player write what is the current set of issues he is facing, what are the attempts he has already tried and did not work, or write down the goal to reach when he saves a board that is the starting of a puzzle to solve that he wants to distribute. And thank you for this beautiful program !

gemerat1 commented 4 years ago

Hello, I was discussing with a friend reminding me that PNG files (the format used to save the board) don't store text. I'm pretty sure I'm here reinventing the wheel, but we could consider adding a black line at the bottom of the picture to mean "here after comes the text" and then encode the text as a pixel per letter, with a palette mapping a colour for each ASCII value. Good luck !