[DGD]hmm.. this seems to not be goin through...

[BladeDarkmour at aol.com]

In response to a message from neil at ekit-inc.com on 4/25/00 at 5:58:37 PM 
Central Daylight Time:

>> If I understand what you're trying to do, I think I've already done
>> this, but I used a slightly different approach.  Rather than modify the
>> driver, I added a section of code into the relevant function of the auto
>> object (receive_message I think - it's been a while since I looked at
>> it)  My 'trigger' was .%color|string.%  where color is something like
>> 'blue', 'blue+bold', 'blue+blink' and string is the text that should be
>> displayed in the appropriate color.  It seems to work well, although
>> I've done no performance tests on it so far.  I can provide the code if
>> you're interested in doing it from within the auto object. >>

Bah... I shoulda thought of that... I'm still acclimatin from a diku 
everything hard coded into the mud style, to a do it all soft coded in LPC.. 
Never shoulda jacked with the driver, ah well.
    Sure, if you wish to send the code I'd apprecate it, it'd give me 
somethin to look at. :)

JD

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