Console Drawing Board

Console Drawing Board is a Java program that provides a console interface and draws figures:

• Drawing rectangles and triangles in a 50 * 50 grid
• Erase any drawn figure
• Center any drawn figure

You can add more figures and functions by modifying the code.

• How to Use
• How to Run
• More about this program

How to Use

• At the start of the program, you can either enter 1 to draw a rectangle or a triangle or perform a sequence of example including drawing, erasing, and centering.
  
• After entering 1 to draw, you can draw a rectangle (enter 1) and specify the weight, height, and the center of this rectangle.
  
• After entering 1 to draw, you can draw a triangle (enter 2) and specify the locations of three vertices.
  
  
• To erase a triangle, enter 2 and then enter the number of a triange (2 in this case).
  
• To center a rectangle, enter 3 and then enter the number of a rectangle (1 in this case).
  
• To exit the console, enter 5.
  

How to Run

This project is built in Eclipse. The process of importing this project into Eclipse is below.

1. Open Eclipse
2. File -> New -> Java Project -> Enter project name as ConsoleDrawingBoard
3. Uncheck the checkbox of use default location -> select the folder of the cloned repository -> Finish
4. Open this project
5. Click on src -> default packge
6. Select ConsoleBoard.java and right click -> Run as 1.Java Application
7. Enter 4 to perform the example usage of this drawing board
   It will launch a thread to trigger keyboard events to
   1. create a rectangle
   2. create a triangle
   3. erase a triangle
   4. create a triangle
   5. create a rectangle
   6. center a rectangle
   7. center a triangle
   8. center a rectangle
   9. delete a rectangle
   10. delete a triangle
   11. delete a rectangle
   12. exit the console

Here is a youtube video shown how to open this program in Eclipse.

More about this program

Detailed descrptions about this program is in this blog post Console Drawing Board.