Frame Buffer Line drawing

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May 16th, 2011, 08:34 PM

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Frame Buffer Line drawing

Hi all,
Can anyone give an example of frame buffer line drawing?

May 16th, 2011, 09:25 PM

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See the answer on the other forum you posted this question on.

May 16th, 2011, 09:38 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by NormR

See the answer on the other forum you posted this question on.

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Originally Posted by NormR

What is the output that the program generates?
What's wrong with it?

You need to draw a grid on paper and look at it line by line to see what must be output for each line

the thing is I'm lost in writing the display and clear function. Thank

May 17th, 2011, 12:53 AM

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It looks as though you are confusing pixels with characters. Pixels are the individual 'dots' that make up a screen.

You cannot clear characters from the text console per say. It takes a dirty little hack like this to clear the console's output:

Code:

public void clear() {
  for (int i = 0; i < 23; i++) {
     System.out.print("\n");
  }
}

You can display your 2D array of booleans like so:

Code:

public void display(boolean[][] pixels) {
  for (int x = 0; x < pixels.length; x++) {
     for (int y = 0; y < pixels[].length; y++) {
         if (pixels[x][y]  == true) {
             System.out.println("*");
         } else {
             System.out.println(" ");
         }
    }
}

May 17th, 2011, 06:53 AM

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Cross posted at:

http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/whats-wrong-my-code/8974-java-frame-buffer-line-drawing.html#post32374

May 17th, 2011, 03:55 PM

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Thanks a lot,

May 17th, 2011, 04:03 PM

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got the following error when trying to compile. any suggestion ?
NOTE: NPEs occur in execution not at compile.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at ConsoleFrameBuffer.display(ConsoleFrameBuffer.java:24)
at ConsoleFrameBuffer.main(ConsoleFrameBuffer.java:41)

What variable at line 24 is null?
The display() method is called from line 41

May 17th, 2011, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by NormR

What variable at line 24 is null?
The display() method is called from line 41

Thanks

May 17th, 2011, 04:33 PM

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What variable at line 24 is null?

And why is that variable null?

Where has pixels been assigned a value?

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May 17th, 2011, 07:28 PM

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Code:

public class ConsoleFrameBuffer { 

    private boolean pixels[][]; 
    private int width, height; 

    public ConsoleFrameBuffer(int width, int height) 
	{
		this.height=height; 
		this.width=height;
		pixels = new boolean[width][height];
	}     
    
	public ConsoleFrameBuffer() 
	{
		this.width=79;
		this.height=23;
		pixels = new boolean[width][height];
	}
	
    void setPixel(int x, int y, boolean b) {
		pixels[x][y] = b;
	}
  
    void setPixel(int x, int y) {
		pixels[x][y] = true;
	}             

    int getWidth() {
		return width;
	}
 
    int getHeight() {
		return height;
	} 

    public void clear() { 
          for (int i = 0; i < 23; i++) { 
             System.out.print("\n"); 
        } 
    } 


    public void display() { 
          for (int x = 0; x < getWidth(); x++) { 
             for (int y = 0; y < getHeight(); y++) { 
                 if (pixels[x][y]  == true) { 
                     System.out.print("*"); 
                 } else { 
                     System.out.print(" "); 
				} 
			}
		System.out.println();
		} 
    } 
    
    public static void main(String [] args) { 
        ConsoleFrameBuffer fb = new ConsoleFrameBuffer(); 
        //fb.display(); 
        int x = 0, y = 0; 
        while (x < fb.getWidth()) { 
            while (x < fb.getWidth() && y < fb.getHeight()) 
                fb.setPixel(x++, y++); 
            y--; 

            while (x < fb.getWidth() && y >= 0) 
                fb.setPixel(x++, y--); 
            if (y < 0)y = 0; 
        } 

       fb.clear(); 
       fb.display(); 
    } 
}

Output

Code:

The main change I made was to instantiate the boolean array. Also fixed a few bugs and formatting issues. The actual logic is all yours and looks like it needs a few tweaks to produce the desired output.

In the future, please make your code more readable if you want people to be able to help you with it.

Also, I noticed you have imports for and Applet. This is all character console stuff (which is why I was upset earlier about the use of the word pixel here). You will need to take a look at java.awt.BufferedImage if you want to use actual pixels.