pseudographics in Java

[edijs]

OK, so the title says it - i'd like to know something about this.

First, do I understand correctly that "Pseudographics" is just using special characters to draw the craphics (like =========== would be the top border of a window)? If not, then please elaborate?

Second, if the above was correct, then would I need to output the special characters by using some weird function which can output these special characters from the unicode table (sonething like getChar(34235)...)?

thanks!

 

[edijs]

Ok, so pseudographics is basically graphics which is created by using characters, like the already mentioned equal sign (see ASCII art, for instance). DOS used pseudograph. to create a GUI...

 

[Sniper]

Hadn't heard of pseudographics before, even though I did java in Uni!

good stuff, thanks