Bold Text on Graph Screen Problem

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Bold Text on Graph Screen Problem

(account deleted) 21 May 2018 18:27

I am trying to finish a project on my calculator, and I am having trouble trying to to bold Text. I want to bold text that is either th Home Screen font (5x7 pixles) or the Graph Screen font (3x5 pixels, depending on the token/character).
Here is what I got so far,

Successful:

Code 1
:Text(-1,28,1,"Text
:StorePic 1
:Text(-1,28,2,"Text
:RecallPic 1
:Delvar Pic1

Not so successful:

Code 2
:Text(28,1,"Text
:StorePic 1
:Text(28,2,"Text
:RecallPic 1
:Delvar Pic1

The problem that I have in Code 2 is, The bold is not really bold. It just looks like as if the letters are zooming/scrolling to the right. Here are some images of what I imagine my text to look like:

In this image, the left 'A' is without any effects, the right is with effects. Each dot represents a 1x1 pixel. (I did this in Snipping Tool, I am not too good at using it)

In this image, the left 'A' is without any effects, the right is with effects, but in the wrong way.

How can I do it so it looks more professional? Is there simpler ways I can do this without having to create/generate the Pic1 variable? I have looked at the bold text source code for the Spider game in the archives a while ago (I just do not remember it), and I have already deleted Wabbit-Emu. What can I do to solve this annoying problem?

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Last edited on 21 May 2018 18:31 by (account deleted) Show more

Re: Bold Text on Graph Screen Problem

Michael2_3B 21 May 2018 18:52

Your best bet is to use Code 1 with the home screen bolded text, on the graph screen. The smaller text is too small to give it a practical bolding.