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author | Kartik Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-01-22 19:57:33 -0800 |
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committer | Kartik Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-01-22 19:57:33 -0800 |
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7540 - baremetal: cursor
I spent over a week agonizing over this. * I had to come to terms with the fact that I don't really know how to make pixel graphics testable. ASCII art on a pixel by pixel basis feels inhuman. Just focus on text mode for now. * I had to set aside the problem of non-English family languages. Languages like Arabic that can stack complex graphemes together likely can't be fixed-width. But I don't know enough at the moment to solve for them. * I spent a while trying to juggle two cursors, one invisible output cursor for tracking the most recent print, and one visible one that's just a hint to the user of what the next keystroke will do. But it looks like I can fold both into a single cursor. Drawing things updates the location of the cursor but doesn't display it. Explicitly moving the cursor displays it, but future drawing can overwrite the cursor.
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