Super duper slow but this renders the text glyphs directly as sprites so I can do special colorization. Probalby then need to process the ftxui color ansi codes.

gui.cpp

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include <SFML/Window.hpp>
 #include <SFML/System.hpp>
+#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
 
 #include <fmt/core.h>
 #include "dbc.hpp"
@@ -148,9 +149,42 @@ void GUI::burn() {
 
 void GUI::draw_screen(bool clear, float map_off_x, float map_off_y) {
   if(clear) $window.clear();
+  std::string screenout = $screen.ToString();
+  std::string map_screenout = $map_screen.ToString();
+  std::wstring main_screen_utf8 = $converter.from_bytes(screenout);
+  $ui_text.setString(main_screen_utf8);
   $window.draw($ui_text);
-  $map_text.setPosition(GAME_MAP_POS+map_off_x, map_off_y);
-  $window.draw($map_text);
+
+  std::wstring map_screen_utf8 = $converter.from_bytes(map_screenout);
+  $map_text.setString(map_screen_utf8);
+
+  sf::Texture ftext = $font.getTexture(MAP_FONT_SIZE);
+
+  for(size_t i = 0; i < map_screen_utf8.size(); i++) {
+    wchar_t tile = map_screen_utf8[i];
+    sf::Glyph glyph = $font.getGlyph(tile, MAP_FONT_SIZE, false);
+    sf::Sprite sprite(ftext);
+    sprite.setTextureRect(glyph.textureRect);
+    auto pos = $map_text.findCharacterPos(i);
+    sprite.setPosition(pos);
+    if(tile == L'█') {
+      sprite.setColor(sf::Color(100,100,100));
+    } else if(tile == L'☺') {
+      sprite.setColor(sf::Color::Blue);
+    } else if(tile == L'Ω') {
+      sprite.setColor(sf::Color::Red);
+    } else if(tile == L'·') {
+      sprite.setColor(color(Value::DARK_MID));
+    } else if(tile == L'\n' || tile == L'\r') {
+      // skip newlines
+      continue;
+    } else {
+      sprite.setColor(color(Value::MID));
+    }
+
+    $window.draw(sprite);
+  }
+
   $window.display();
 }
 
@@ -198,20 +232,13 @@ void GUI::render_scene() {
   Render($map_screen, $map_view->Render());
   Render($screen, $document->Render());
 
-  std::string $screenout = $screen.ToString();
-  std::wstring main_screen_utf8 = $converter.from_bytes($screenout);
-  $ui_text.setString(main_screen_utf8);
-
-  std::string $map_screenout = $map_screen.ToString();
-  std::wstring map_screen_utf8 = $converter.from_bytes($map_screenout);
-  $map_text.setString(map_screen_utf8);
-
   draw_screen();
 }
 
 int GUI::main() {
   configure_world();
   create_renderer();
+  run_systems();
 
   while($window.isOpen()) {
     render_scene();
@@ -219,7 +246,6 @@ int GUI::main() {
     if(handle_events()) {
       run_systems();
     }
-
     std::this_thread::sleep_for(10ms);
   }