You can find all examples in this lesson here.
Text is drawn in a standard font. (This might be changed in a future version of Drape.) But you can vary the font size using the size commands. Here is a little program that puts some large words on the picture. By using the sleep command after each word and erasing the screen afterwards, the words pop up one at a time. Here is the program (TEXT1.DRP):
You can also draw text in different sizes. Here we draw 10 lines of text, each followed by a small size decrease and a little move upward (TEXT2.DRP):
And, as a third example, here we get some text in a circle (TEXT3.DRP):
The program might look a bit complicated but this is just to get the text started at the right position. (Note that the text itself does not rotate. This might be added in a future version of Drape.) Now try to create a spiral with letters.
I hope this has given you some new ideas on how to make nice Drape programs. Please don’t forget to mail your creations to markov@cs.ruu.nl.
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