Drawing In Protected Mode: Difference between revisions

Once in graphic mode, you no longer have the BIOS or the hardware to draw fonts for you. The basic idea is to have font data for each character and use it to plot (or not to plot) pixels. There are plenty of ways to store those fonts depending on whether they have multiple colors or not, alpha channel or not etc. What you will basically have, however is:

 

font_char* font_data[CHARS];

// rendering one of the character, given its font_data

draw_char(screen, where, font_char*);

draw_string(screen, where, char* input)

{

input++;

}

}