ASCII art not printing

[ChesterPlus]

I'm having trouble figuring out why the console is not printing out the ASCII art.
Side note, there might be a few other mathematical issues as well as the fact that I'm purposely not using the <iomanip> library, but I can work those out later.

  void House::Draw() const {
    int leg = base + 2;
    for (int i=1; i>=leg; i++) {
        if (i = 1) {
            for (int j=1; j>=leg/2; j++) {
                cout << "  ";
            }
            cout << border << " " << endl;
        }
        if (i = 2) {
            for (int k=1; k>=(leg/2)-1; k++) {
                cout << "  ";
            }
            cout << border << " " << border << " " << endl;
        }
        if (i >= 3 && i < leg) {
            for (int l=leg-2; l==1; l--) {
                cout << "  ";
            }
            cout << border;
            for (int j=1; j>=leg-2; j++) {
                cout << fill << " ";
            }
            cout << border << endl;
        }
        if (i = leg) {
            cout << border << " " << border << " ";
            for (int k=1; k>=leg-4; k++) {
                cout << fill << " ";
            }
            cout << border << border << endl;
        }
    }
}

[AbstractionAnon]

You don't show the definition of border.

If you're trying to use the extended ASCII line drawing characters, check the following thread:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/248878/#msg1096546

[ChesterPlus]

@AbstractionAnon

Could you explain what you mean? If it helps, the function I'm writing is part of a larger class.

[AbstractionAnon]

What is the definition of border? It's not shown in your code snippet.

As the article linked above states, cout is limited to signed characters (0-127).
Extended ASCII (128-255) has line drawing characters.
See 179-218 here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13826781/java-extended-ascii-table-usage
If you try cout extended ASCII, the result is undefined behavior.
Use wide characters instead.

enum class EXT_ASCII : wchar_t
{
    VERT_BAR = 179,
    RIGHT_T = 180,
    UPPER_R = 191,
    LOWER_L = 192,
    BOTTOM_T = 193,
    TOP_T = 194,
    LEFT_T = 195,
    HORIZ_BAR = 196,
    CROSS = 197,
    LOWER_R = 217,
    UPPER_L = 218
};
    wcout << EXT_ASCII::VERT_BAR;

[ChesterPlus]

I think I understand what you mean. border and fill are already defined as 'X' and '*' by default when they are called.

// ... 
    void Draw() const;

    void Summary() const;
private:
    int base = 3;
    char border = 'X';
    char fill = '*';
};

The issue is that the program isn't drawing anything to the terminal when I call the Draw() function. I know all my syntax is correct, but something about my loops just int working, and I cant find it.

[AbstractionAnon]

Okay, so we're not talking about extended ASCII.

One problem is immediately apparent. Lines 4,10,26 you're using the wrong operator.
= is the assignment operator. You want the equality operator ==.

Second problem: Lines 3,5,6,11 Your termination conditions are wrong. Consequently, none of your cout statements operate.

Use a debugger and step through your code.

[ChesterPlus]

I've spent some time to rework the loops, and now I've arrived at different issue.
I'm trying to fill the "roof" of the house I'm trying to print, but I can only get the program to draw 1 filler character or a fixed amount of them and its breaking the pattern. Any ideas?

void House::Draw() const {
    // Roof section
    for(int i = 1; i <= base+1; i++) {
        for(int space = base+2; space > i; space--) {
            cout << " ";
        }
        int j = 0;
        while (j != (2*i-1)) {
            if (j == 0 || j == 2*i-2) {
                cout << border << " ";
            }
            else if (j == i) {
                cout << fill << " ";
            }
            j++;
        }
        cout<<endl;
    }
    cout << border << " " << border << " ";
    for (int k = 1; k <= base-2; k++) {
        cout << fill << " ";
    }
    cout << border << " " << border << " " << endl;

    // Body section
    for (int i = 1; i <= base-2; i++) {
        cout << "  ";
        cout << border << " ";
        for (int j = 0; j < base-2; j++) {
            cout << fill << " ";
        }
        cout << border;
        cout << endl;
    }
    cout << "  ";
    for (int k = 0; k <= base-1; k++) {
        cout << border << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

The problem area is lines 12 and 13, I think.

[seeplus]

As has been mentioned above, use the debugger to trace through the program to determine the issue.

[lastchance]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class House
{
   int base;
   char border, fill;
public:
   House( int ba, char bo, char fi ) : base( ba ), border( bo ), fill( fi ) {}
   void Draw() const;
};


// ********** YOUR CODE *************
void House::Draw() const {
    // Roof section
    for(int i = 1; i <= base+1; i++) {
        for(int space = base+2; space > i; space--) {
            cout << " ";
        }
        int j = 0;
        while (j != (2*i-1)) {
            if (j == 0 || j == 2*i-2) {
                cout << border;             // <==== no extra ' '
            }
            else {                          // <==== just "else"
                cout << fill;               // <==== no extra ' '
            }
            j++;
        }
        cout<<endl;
    }
    cout << border << " " << border << " ";
    for (int k = 1; k <= base-2; k++) {
        cout << fill << " ";
    }
    cout << border << " " << border << " " << endl;

    // Body section
    for (int i = 1; i <= base-2; i++) {
        cout << "  ";
        cout << border << " ";
        for (int j = 0; j < base-2; j++) {
            cout << fill << " ";
        }
        cout << border;
        cout << endl;
    }
    cout << "  ";
    for (int k = 0; k <= base-1; k++) {
        cout << border << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

// ********** END OF YOUR CODE *************

int main()
{
   House h( 20, '#', '.' );
   h.Draw();
}

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[deleted account xyzzy]

Here's your happy house....

There's something fishy goin' on here:

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

double fish(int x)
{
   double xx = (x - 16) * (x - 16);

   return abs(x < 16 ? sqrt(64.0 - xx / 4.0) : 8 - 0.01 * xx);
}

int main()
{
   for (int j = 8; j >= -8; j--)
   {
      for (int i = 0; i < 56; i++)
      {
         std::cout << (abs(j) <= fish(i) ? '*' : ' ');
      }
      std::cout << '\n';
   }
}

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