(nimsy) c++ hw assignment | Denizen and Citizens | Page 1

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:25 AM

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// Program Description:
// Input one of the options listed to draw a pattern
// using whatever ASCII character the user desires
// in a 10x10 space.

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(nimsy) c++ hw assignment

exotic pecanBOT Mar 30, 2023, 9:25 AM

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solemn surge // Program Description: // Input one of the options listed to draw a pattern // ...

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solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:25 AM

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end result would be something like this

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here are the steps:

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this is what i have rn

#include <iostream>

const int width = 10;
const int height = 10;

//main
int main() {

    enum class Patterns { FILLED, STRIPES, CHECKERBOARD, SQUARE, X, UPPER_TRI };
    enum class Colors { FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND };

    //pixel would be either a FOREGROUND element (the character user inputs) or a BACKGROUND element (space)
    struct Pixel { Colors color; };

    //user inputs
    std::string pattern;
    char foreground = ' - ';

    while (pattern != "q") {

        std::cout << "Enter in a pattern to draw (or 'q' to exit)." <<
                    "\nOptions: FILLED, STRIPES, CHECKERBOARD, SQUARE, X, UPPER_TRI" <<
                    //"\nOptions: filled, striped, checkered, square, x, upper_right_triangle, filled" <<
                    "\nInput: ";

        //Patterns pat = Patterns::pattern;

        //if (Patterns)


        std::cin >> pattern;

        std::cout << "your input was " << pattern;
    }

    std::cout << "Exiting program.";
    return 0;

}

/*/void create_shape(Pixel p[], int array_size, Patterns pattern) {

}

void draw(Pixel p[], int array_size, char foreground) {

}*/

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:27 AM

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solemn surge

i think i know how to do it without this shit (without following the steps) but im new to enums, structs, and arrays (i somewhat know what they are now)

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:29 AM

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what are you struggling with specifically with those? (enums/structs/arrays)

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:29 AM

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first off, id like to somehow make a pattern variable that uses the Patterns enum

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is there any way i could get a pattern enum from the pattern string variable?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:32 AM

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you want to initialize a variable with a value from the enum?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:32 AM

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no

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initializing is the easy part

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wouldn't it just be

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Patterns pattern = Patterns::FILLED;

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:33 AM

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so you want to map the pattern string to that enum?

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so turn like String Stripes into the matching enum?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:33 AM

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ye, unless there's a better way to do it (without strings)

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:33 AM

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stark frigate so turn like String Stripes into the matching enum?

ye

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:33 AM

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should be straightforward but I haven't touched C++ in a while

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one sec

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:34 AM

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alright

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:34 AM

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i mean also why do you want to turn the string into an enum

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are you reading it from the stream?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

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well idk how to use the enums

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

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like do you want to take the user typing in "checkered" and then use that to get the enum

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

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ye

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

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I feel like you could have googled this lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

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ive been trying to bruh

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i feel like this is such a bad example of using enums tho....

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like why not just create an array of strings and check if the inputted string is in that array

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:36 AM

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what you can do is map the string to the enum i believe

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the main reason i mentioned was type safety/checking if the value exists

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:36 AM

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solemn surge like why not just create an array of strings and check if the inputted string is...

but u can just do this

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:37 AM

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yeah it's mostly just a design/neatness thing

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:37 AM

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hmm okay

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:37 AM

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anyway so there's a way to map the input from std::cin to string but i have to look it up

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10514626/c-enum-and-using-them-to-input-from-user

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c++ enum and using them to input from user

I have an enum in my code that is the following: enum Status {In-Active, Active};.
A status object is passed to a Person object as a parameter, so I want the user to enter Active or In-Active and s...

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:40 AM

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hmmmm

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im just afraid that we haven't learned about maps yet

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and he'll get mad

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:42 AM

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do you not have a class/lecture about enums that tells you how you could use them?

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there's probably an exact way they want you to do it then

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:42 AM

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it's like 5 slides

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nothing has to do with maps

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that's it

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:44 AM

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uh

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you could use static_cast then?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:46 AM

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how tho?

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ik there's a slide for it but i still dont understand

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:47 AM

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hm, actually from what I can see/remember then, the enums have values that are integers

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so in the example in the last slide, yellow = 5 and green = 6

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and i assume red = 0?

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That wouldn'

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't help with strings though

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:47 AM

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yea i dont get it

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:48 AM

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the other slides are comparing enums with other enums so that's not really helpful either

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give me a second, I need to report a possible denizen bug

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:48 AM

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alr

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whatever, screw this guy

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ill use maps

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brtuh

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if im gonna define the enum's values as something else, i might as fucking well use arrays instead of enums?? bruhhh this is so annoying

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:03 AM

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also @solemn surge not sure if you care but your uni name is in the images

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:03 AM

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idc

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:03 AM

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just checkin'

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:03 AM

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bruh but still

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a;ldskfja;ldkfja;lsdkjfal;sdkfj;lasdkfj

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im so furstarted

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:05 AM

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also yeah i think without maps the only real way would be to use a switch case

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and again yes, it would make sense to just use the string then

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but I'm no C++ expert so I could be completely wrong

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:06 AM

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hmm maybe we're just overthinking this tho...

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void create_shape(Pixel p[], int array_size, Patterns pattern) {

}

it says to have a function like this

fickle jacinth Mar 30, 2023, 10:08 AM

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The professor is right, you should learn how to use enums

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In c++, strings are not that pleasant to work with

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:09 AM

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ok

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so how would i use enums in my case?

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all i wanna do is get the enum from the user input

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(to start off with)

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and im pretty sure the user input has to be a string, because otherwise we wouldn't be able to input q

fickle jacinth Mar 30, 2023, 10:11 AM

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You can convert it from an int

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In c++ enums are just ints

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Mostly

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:11 AM

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wat

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but the input is a string, and not a number

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like im not inputting "0" or "1"

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im inputting "triangle"

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:12 AM

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would that not still require a switch case then? where like 0 = Patterns::FILLED

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 AM

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or you mean

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 AM

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or uh, the string would need to be mapped to the int in question

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 AM

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so like

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 AM

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like "FILLED" would need to equal 0 to be used to get the corresponding enum

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which would require a switch or if else or something

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 AM

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filled is 0 by default, because its the first entry

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 AM

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yes

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the second entry would be 1

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stripes

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:15 AM

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bruh

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but this seems so redundant

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almost like this isn't supposed to be what we're doing int he assignment

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:17 AM

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well it's a requirement isn't it

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i imagine the point of it was to implement what you'd be taught

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which includes enums

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:18 AM

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yea but it almost seems like we're not supposed to do it

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it's just counterintuitive

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void getPattern(std::string pat)
{
    switch(pat)
    {
        case "FILLED":
            return 0;
    }
}

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i dont get the syntax error bruh

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:31 AM

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what's the error say

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ah, switch can't use string literals in C++

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it's literally not allowed

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i'm starting to understand why enums are preferable

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:32 AM

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breuh

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[aks fd'asdkjf;alsdjkf'asdf

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then HOW TF AM I SUPOSED TO CONVERT STRING TO ENUM

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:32 AM

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so consider if else

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:32 AM

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oh right

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forgot that existed

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:32 AM

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haha

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:32 AM

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fml

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:33 AM

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i always struggle with intro classes too because they punish you for using stuff you haven't learnt

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it's like relearning the wheel

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and I forgot the 'low-tech' method lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:33 AM

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what's that

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:33 AM

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as in stuff like that

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I normally just use switch case too

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so it didn't immediately occur to me to just use if else

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:33 AM

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also- WHY DO THEY FUCKING PUNSIH YOU FOR GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SUBJECT?!

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:34 AM

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because you shouldn't know it yet

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if you use a way they didn't teach you're not engaging with the content the way they expect you to

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and you may be missing something fundamental

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:35 AM

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fair

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:37 AM

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also lol

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i have not the slightest what an upper triangle is supposed to look like though

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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...

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did you make this?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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yes

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the fundamentals are simple it's just a lot of languagespecific stuff

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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using all the steps from the thing?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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no lol

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i did use the enum though

feral flint Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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stark frigate no lol

nimsy was about to go off there 😂

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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i used the map way

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because the if else way is psychotic

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:38 AM

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int getPattern(std::string pat)
{
    if (pat == "filled") {
        return 0;
    }
    else if (pat == "striped") {
        return 1;
    }
    else if (pat == "checkered") {
        return 2;
    }
    else if (pat == "square") {
        return 3;
    }
    else if (pat == "x") {
        return 4;
    }
    else if (pat == "upper_right_triangle") {
        return 5;
    }
    else if (pat == "q") {
        return 999;
    }
    else {
        return -1;
    }

}

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this is what the bullshit wants me to do?

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the redundancy is insane

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it makes me actually wanna commit crimes (not actually)

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:39 AM

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well what you can do is not do a getPattern

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:39 AM

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what can i do then

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:40 AM

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right after reading std::cin do the if else there

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if (pattern == "FILLED") {
create_shape(pixels, Patterns::FILLED);
}

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for example

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since they asked for that function specifically

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:40 AM

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wait what

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:40 AM

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isn't that in the notes you sent

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:41 AM

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so you're saying for 2 hours i have been doing absolutely nothing

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:41 AM

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create_shape and draw functions

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not nothing

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just move the logic out of that function and put it in the main

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:41 AM

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ye but then what's the point of enums?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:41 AM

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you use it in create_shape

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it takes the enum as an input right

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so in there, use switch

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:42 AM

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ig so

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:42 AM

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so like in the create_shape do something like this
switch (pattern) {
case Patterns::FILLED:
blah blah fill the colours
}

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:42 AM

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ye ik what u mean

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but also

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nvm

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wait hang on

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then what's the point of draw()?

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like where would i put it

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would i put it inside the createshape function?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:44 AM

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draw comes after create_shape

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so create shape takes the pixel buffer and patterns

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:44 AM

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yea

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:44 AM

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figures out how to fill the pixel buffer based on the pattern

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then draw takes in that pixel buffer + the foreground character

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eg the letter B

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:45 AM

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yea

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:45 AM

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and draws it

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:45 AM

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so shouldn't create_shape be a variable?

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and not void

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:45 AM

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no because the pixel buffer variable is being changed, you're not returning it

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you're just using it

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you have a Pixels array right?

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you declare that first

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then you change it create_shape

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then you reference that array in draw

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:46 AM

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ohh

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:46 AM

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there's no need to return it or anything because it can be accessed by the function

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think of it as a server flag or something

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but not global i guess

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:48 AM

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@stark frigate did you just make array_size width*height?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:50 AM

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Yes

fickle jacinth Mar 30, 2023, 10:50 AM

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could also use strtoi

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(stoi)?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:51 AM

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void create_shape(Pixel p[], int array_size, Patterns pattern) {

}

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so it says Pixel (first arg) and Patterns (last arg) are undefined

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does that mean i gotta define them globally?

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ah ye it seemed that way

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:52 AM

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No? Just define it in main

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:52 AM

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define void in main too?

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wait no that wouldn't work... unless i defined the function in the beginning

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:53 AM

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No as in before you call the draw and create shape functions, define pixel

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Like Pixel pixels[width*height]

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:53 AM

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they were already

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but i had to define it outside the main function for it to return as "defined" for create_shape

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also this

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:56 AM

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Uh

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Why are you passing the Pixel struct

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You should be passing a variable of type Pixel

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:56 AM

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oh right

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:56 AM

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Not Pixel itself

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:57 AM

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so just like

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Pixel p[]

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:57 AM

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Well it needs a variable name yes

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Look at what I sent

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:58 AM

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ye 1 sec

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:58 AM

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Unrelated but what level is this unit

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Or like how much is it (the assignment) worth

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They’ve jammed a decent bit into this assignment

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:00 AM

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bruh i have no idea

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Pixel pixel_buffer = { Colors::FOREGROUND };

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:00 AM

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stark frigate Or like how much is it (the assignment) worth

60 points

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it's like the second assignment

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it was due 4 days ago btw

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:03 AM

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Out of 100?

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Also nimsy…

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:03 AM

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no it's just worth 60

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:03 AM

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But 60 what

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How many points are in the entire unit

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:03 AM

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idk... points lol

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uhh

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no idea

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it's 24% of the assignments cateogry tho

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:03 AM

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Why are you like this lol

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Ah there we go

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:04 AM

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stark frigate Also nimsy…

bro i was busy studying for my math exam that i got a 55 on

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:04 AM

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Oof

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:04 AM

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truly

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anyways

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:04 AM

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solemn surge ```c++ Pixel pixel_buffer = { Colors::FOREGROUND }; ```

i have no clue

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how to make this pixel buffer

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my idea was that the pixel represents one of the dots that will either be a character or no character

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:06 AM

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It’s a 10*10 grid

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:06 AM

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ye

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:06 AM

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In this case it’s a 1D array

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So it’s a 100 entry array

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:07 AM

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ye

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:07 AM

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Pixel pixels[width * height];

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Where Pixel is a struct with a color

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So each one of those entries in the array has a colour

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Fore or background

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Or just blank or the userinput character

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:08 AM

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Pixel pixel_buffer[width * height] = {};

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so this would be 100 entries?

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of the Color struct

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:08 AM

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What are tou

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No, that WAS the declaration

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Pixel pixels[width * height];

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You fill it in create_shape

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What I just posted creates a 100 entry array but the array has no values in it yet

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:09 AM

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but it gives a slight warning

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:10 AM

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Ah right

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:10 AM

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wouldn't it just be okay to add the curly brackets at the end?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:10 AM

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Yeah you can

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I didn’t use an actual IDE to test lmfao

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I just ran it online

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:10 AM

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lol

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:14 AM

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Did you need help with the actual drawing logic? I haven’t done the ones that are square but the fundamentals are done

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Filled is hilariously easy lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:14 AM

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yea im still trying to get that lol

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void create_shape(Pixel p[], int array_size, Patterns pattern) {
    switch (pattern) 
    {
        case Patterns::FILLED:
            p[array_size] = Colors::FOREGROUND;

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thought itd be something like that

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:15 AM

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Right kinda approach

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What I did was for loop through p and set every entry to be Colors::BACKGROUND; first

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You do that by setting the color variable for each entry

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So like p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;

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You can do this to set it to foreground too

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Array size would just set the last entry in the array

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Not the entire array

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:17 AM

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ah

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:17 AM

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So for example filled you could do a for loop for the array size and then set every value to foreground

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I would probably say don’t do this thought since it won’t be dynamic or handle the other kinds of drawing

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Best case is to do two for loops, one for width and one for height

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That way it can handle horizontal vs vertical

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:18 AM

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        case Patterns::FILLED:
            for (int i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
            {
                p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
            }

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:19 AM

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That should work yeah

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Give it a run?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:19 AM

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ye 1 sec gotta make the draw function rq

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:19 AM

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You probably want similar logic to what I just described

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:20 AM

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even for the filled?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:20 AM

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Print out characters row by row column by column

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You may as well right

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Then they can all use the same loop

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:20 AM

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why not just print it out and mod[the length] and start a new line?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:20 AM

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You could too

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Whatever works

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:23 AM

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is there a thing that returns a list of arrays?

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no i mean

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:23 AM

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What

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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is there a way to get for example entries one through 10 in an array out of 100?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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Slicing?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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yeyey slecing

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eh whatever

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it's too much work

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ill just keep it simple

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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Oh that’s not a thing in C++ apparently?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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L

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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Why do you want it anyway lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:24 AM

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c++ taking L after Ls

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:25 AM

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stark frigate Why do you want it anyway lol

idk i thought itd be cleaner/cooler if instead of printing each "pixel", we'd just print each row (there'd just be 10 loops as opposed to 100)

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:25 AM

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Oh yeah

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Anyway just get it working first I think lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:28 AM

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ye

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filled works

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:30 AM

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There we go

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The rest is just patterns

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I guarantee you can Google them lol

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Checkered would just be like mod % 2

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:35 AM

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yo @stark frigate

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should i just do while true for the while loop?

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then i can add something like this in the block

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        if (pattern == "q") {
            std::cout << "Exiting program.";
            return 0;
        }

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:36 AM

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Why not use what you already have lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:36 AM

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because im asking for two inputs

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meaning even if i put in q for pattern, it'll still ask me for the foreground character

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and then after drawing it it will quit

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:38 AM

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… nest it under the first loop then?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:38 AM

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?

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im only using 1 loop

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:39 AM

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while (pattern != "q") {
std::cout << "Enter a pattern to draw (or 'q' to exit)." <<
"\nOptions: FILLED, STRIPES, CHECKERBOARD, SQUARE, X, UPPER_TRI" <<
"\nInput: ";

    std::cin >> pattern;

    std::cout << "Enter the character to use for the foreground: ";
    std::cin >> foreground;

   
}

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This?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:40 AM

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ye

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:40 AM

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This doesn’t quit? Unless you add a

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A

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Q

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lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:40 AM

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ye unless i add a Q for the first input

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:41 AM

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Isn’t that what you want

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It loops until the user inputs q

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:41 AM

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yea but if i dont do the if (pattern == "q") { std::cout << "Exiting program."; return 0; }

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:41 AM

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Oh I see

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:41 AM

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ye

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:41 AM

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You could return 0 then yeah

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You don’t need a while true though

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:42 AM

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what do i do then?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:43 AM

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Actually on second though yes what you wrote will work

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I’m phone posting now so sorry for mixed messages lmao

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:44 AM

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all g lol

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:44 AM

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You can use break instead of return 0

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To end the whole loop

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:44 AM

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ah ok

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ty

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:45 AM

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Ok good luck lol

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:45 AM

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wait 1 sec

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    case Patterns::STRIPES:
        int status = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
        {
            if (i % width == 0) {
                if (status == 0)
                {
                    status = 1;
                }
                else {
                    status = 0;
                }
            }

            if (status == 1) {
                p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
            }
            else {
                p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;
            }
        }

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my attempt at adding striped

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oh wait made a smal mistake

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there fixed

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yay it works

merry portalBOT Mar 30, 2023, 11:49 AM

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+> YAY!!!

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:53 AM

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Neato

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:55 AM

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wait but @stark frigate what's up with the spacing?

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why is ours so fucked

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hang on a sec... their shit is way more than 10 characters

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:56 AM

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Isn’t it meant to be 3 spaces?

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Look at the prompt

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It says background should be “ “ doesn’t it

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:57 AM

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right right

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:57 AM

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Yeah it does I double checked

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:57 AM

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shits still off tho

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:57 AM

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Isn’t that an issue with your code then lol

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Looms like it’s off by 1

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:58 AM

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yea i think it's because the loop starts at 0 and not 1

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:58 AM

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Could be yeah

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:59 AM

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that seemed to have fixed it but ours is still pretty fixed

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 12:01 PM

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Looks like it’s adding in an extra space somewhere? Dunno

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 12:01 PM

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also the status thing was dome

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idk how to do checkered tho without it

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i meant stripes**

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yo @stark frigate should we just have two loops instead of 1 big while?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 12:09 PM

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That was my original suggestion yeah

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One for height and one for width

white ferry Mar 30, 2023, 6:40 PM

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solemn surge this is what i have rn ```c++ #include <iostream> const int width = 10; const i...

im curious, why arent you using namespace

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 6:42 PM

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idk

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i just wasn't taught that way (yet) ig

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 6:43 PM

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stark frigate That was my original suggestion yeah

wait no that's not what i was talking about

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what are you talking about?

white ferry Mar 30, 2023, 8:16 PM

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solemn surge i just wasn't taught that way (yet) ig

what.

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thats a basic syntax..?

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using namespace std; completely removes the need to have std:: in front of things

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 9:10 PM

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Yeah but we haven’t been told to do that and I don’t wanna be deducted points so

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 9:50 PM

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solemn surge yo <@206326949021351936> should we just have two loops instead of 1 big while?

Which part are you talking about

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:04 PM

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stark frigate Which part are you talking about

When getting inputs for the pattern and character

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:05 PM

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Oh

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Is there any real need to split them?

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:11 PM

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I forgot why

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 10:11 PM

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stark frigate Is there any real need to split them?

But anyways, I gotta somehow figure out a way to fix the space thing

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:14 PM

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Lol

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 10:53 PM

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That example of striped is like 20*10 isn’t it

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Oh I see, each ^^^ is one character it looks like

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Yeah it looks like width is treated as 3 wide for whatever reason in the two provided examples

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So basically what’s most likely causing this issue is just the line width vs character “width”

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Since a line is 10 wide it can’t fit 3 ^^^s without remainder

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Which is why your version overflows

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Whereas in the example given there’s actually 5 ^^^s per line and 4 empty spaces

solemn surge Mar 30, 2023, 11:14 PM

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Oh so it’s just the foreground repeated 3 times in the same pixel?

stark frigate Mar 30, 2023, 11:17 PM

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It looks like it yeah

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If you look a the square it’s the same

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20x10

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:06 AM

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yo @stark frigate

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        case Patterns::X:
            for (int i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
            {

                if (i % width == 0) {
                    row_number++;
                }

                //left diagonal
                if (i % width == 0) {
                    p[i+row_number].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;

                }
                else {
                    p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;
                }
                    

            }
            break;

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this is what im doing for making the x shape, but im confused as to why i + row_number is not return what i want

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instead of doing like 1+1=2 it just does 1+1=11

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:09 AM

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Uh

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So it’s concatenating instead of adding?

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:09 AM

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yea

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:10 AM

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Are you definitely sure that’s what’s happening

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:10 AM

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yes

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:10 AM

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What type is row number, an int?

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:10 AM

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11223344556677889100

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both are ints

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:12 AM

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Weird

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:19 AM

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stark frigate Weird

got it sorta to work

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p[i+=row_number].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;

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ahhh so close

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:27 AM

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Oof

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Wouldn’t you want it to cross in the center? So there should be a 2x2 in the enter

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:34 AM

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yea idk how id do that

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            for (int i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
            {

                if (i % width == 0) {
                    row_number++;
                }

                //left diagonal
                if (i % width == row_number) {
                    p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;

                }
                else if (i % width == width-row_number) {
                    p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
                }
                else {
                    p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;
                }
                std::cout << row_number;
                    

            }

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this is what i hav ern

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:34 AM

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Jesus

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:34 AM

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?

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why u jesusing

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:35 AM

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The formatting is wild

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Partially mobile discord I imagine

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:35 AM

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o lol

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:38 AM

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oh wow that's much easier to read on desktop

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yeah it was formatting

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that's what it looks like on my phone lol

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it doesn't format or color it either

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:39 AM

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ic

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:41 AM

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we want something like this?

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 2:41 AM

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ye

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exactly

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 2:45 AM

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                    if (x == y || x == width - 1 - y) {
                        p[index].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
                    }

this is what i used but I used two for loops

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so uh

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replace x and y with row_number and stuff

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I believe y would be row_number and x would be i % width?

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so uh

                    int x = i % width;
                    if (x == row_number || x == width - 1 - row_number) {
                        p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
                    }
                    else {
                        p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;
                    }

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something like that?

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 3:03 AM

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@stark frigate

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there's 4 thingies at the bottom and only 3 on top

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 3:04 AM

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i may have fucked up the conversion
mine is not like that

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looking at it, the numbers are off by one

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the height only has 9

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is it because you start from 1

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 3:05 AM

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hmm

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wdyn

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wdym

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this is what i have rn

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        case Patterns::X:
            for (int i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
            {

                if (i % width == 0) {
                    row_number++;
                }

                if (i % width == row_number || i % width == width - 1 - row_number) {
                    p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
                }
                else {
                    p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;
                }

            }
            break;

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 3:06 AM

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like looking at the X

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it's only got 9 rows

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it should have 10

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so the loop is probably off by one or something

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 3:17 AM

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@stark frigate

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        case Patterns::X:
            for (int i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
            {

                if (i % width == 0) {
                    row_number++;
                }

                if (i % width == row_number-1 || i % width == width - 1 - row_number) {
                    p[i].color = Colors::FOREGROUND;
                }
                else {
                    p[i].color = Colors::BACKGROUND;
                }

            }
            break;

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added a -1 to row_number

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oh wait a sec

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it broke the center thing

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got it to work finally

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 3:33 AM

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nice

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 3:42 AM

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check it out

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finally im done

safe gobletBOT Mar 31, 2023, 3:42 AM

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Resolved

Thread closed as resolved.

safe gobletBOT Mar 31, 2023, 7:40 AM

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Thread Reopened

Thread was manually reopened by @stark frigate.

stark frigate Mar 31, 2023, 7:40 AM

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Apparently adding an emote reopens the thread lmfao

solemn surge Mar 31, 2023, 10:40 AM

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Lol

#(nimsy) c++ hw assignment