On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Risto Karjalainen wrote:
> | I solved this by adding hooks into user->catch_tell (I use 2.4.5 mudlib)
> | It calls the player->creplace(str) function to replace certain colour
> | codes (such things as ^R for red, ^G for green etc) with the proper ansi
> | sequences, or with nothing at all if no colour is required.
>
> Isn't that terribly slow?! I tried this too on my codebase but I started
> getting Too long evaluations more than I could handle so I gave up the idea.
> Maybe my code was a bit too unoptimized and hack. Anyway, I'm curious how
> you handle this.
I haven't noticed any particular speed degradation...
The colour code system I use is pretty much lifted from PG+ (telnet based
talkers) which have had this kind of colour for may years now.
Here's my code snippett...
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rand(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;3"+random(7)+"m";
return "^[[1;3"+random(7)+"m";
}
grey(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;30m";
return "^[[1;30m";
}
red(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;31m";
return "^[[1;31m";
}
green(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;32m";
return "^[[1;32m";
}
yellow(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;33m";
return "^[[1;33m";
}
blue(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;34m";
return "^[[1;34m";
}
pink(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;35m";
return "^[[1;35m";
}
cyan(i)
{
if(colour==0) return "";
if(i==0) return "^[[0;36m";
return "^[[1;36m";
}
norm()
{
if(colour==0) return "";
return "^[[0m";
}
italic() /* S */
{
if(colour==0) return "";
return "^[[3m";
}
blink() /* K */
{
if(colour==0) return "";
return "^[[5m";
}
underline() /* U */
{
if(colour==0) return "";
return "^[[4m";
}
inverse() /* I */
{
if(colour==0) return "";
return "^[[7m";
}
bold() /* H */
{
if(colour==0) return "";
return "^[[0;1m";
}
creplace(haystack)
{
string newstr;
int i;
newstr="";
for(i=0; i<(strlen(haystack)); i++)
{
if(haystack[i]=='^')
{
if(haystack[i+1]=='^')
{
newstr = newstr + "^";
i++;
} else {
i++;
switch (haystack[i])
{
case 'G':
newstr = newstr +
green(1);
break;
case 'g':
newstr = newstr +
green(0);
break;
case 'R':
newstr = newstr + red(1);
break;
case 'r':
newstr = newstr + red(0);
break;
case 'B':
newstr = newstr + blue(1);
break;
case 'b':
newstr = newstr + blue(0);
break;
case 'Y':
newstr = newstr +
yellow(1);
break;
case 'y':
newstr = newstr +
yellow(0);
break;
case 'C':
newstr = newstr + cyan(1);
break;
case 'c':
newstr = newstr + cyan(0);
break;
case 'P':
newstr = newstr + pink(1);
break;
case 'p':
newstr = newstr + pink(0);
break;
case 'N':
case 'n':
newstr = newstr + norm();
break;
case 'A':
newstr = newstr + grey(1);
break;
case 'a':
newstr = newstr + grey(0);
break;
case 'X':
newstr = newstr + rand(1);
break;
case 'x':
newstr = newstr + rand(0);
break;
case 'S':
case 's':
newstr = newstr + italic();
break;
case 'K':
case 'k':
newstr = newstr + blink();
break;
case 'U':
case 'u':
newstr = newstr + underline();
break;
case 'I':
case 'i':
newstr = newstr + inverse();
break;
case 'H':
case 'h':
newstr = newstr + bold();
break;
}
}
} else {
newstr = newstr + " ";
newstr[strlen(newstr)-1] = haystack[i];
}
}
return newstr;
}
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Matt
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