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Geek Culture / How Does Notepad Display Text?

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 12th Sep 2011 04:34
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So when you open Notepad, does it display the individual characters as individual bitmaps, or does it make them all one bitmap that you can scroll up and down on? Same thing for browsers, do they make all the images and text and turn them into one solid bitmap the you scroll up and down on?

There is one game i play, it has perfect looking raycasting and is rendered at a very high FPS real time. This game i find very fun. What is this game? This game is life on earth.
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Posted: 12th Sep 2011 04:46
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Quote: "So when you open Notepad, does it display the individual characters"


Yes, but not as images. The text is displayed as a font. Same with the browser. Each element is displayed separately, text and image.

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Posted: 12th Sep 2011 06:09 Edited at: 12th Sep 2011 06:47
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Oh, i see! I think i understand what you are saying Ill needs to research font information! So what im getting from my research is that the individual characters are drawn from data in the font file. So this means that it uses no bitmaps?

There is one game i play, it has perfect looking raycasting and is rendered at a very high FPS real time. This game i find very fun. What is this game? This game is life on earth.
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