[DGD] Question: Implementing ANSI

[Noah Gibbs]

  You know that changing those lines of code should *not* produce missing file
errors, right?  Did you try compiling the plain version of DGD in question
*before* updating the files to the ANSI version?

  On a semi-related note, it is possible to fake ANSI color by implementing
your own telnet protocol in DGD.  Phantasmal has this functionality about 75%
implemented, but that's all built on top of the Kernel library, so it may not
be your cuppa tea.

--- Trance Junkie <trance_junkie2002 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again, and thanks to everyone who answered my last query.
> 
> This might sound a bit backwards after my last question, but I do tend to 
> think/do things in strange ways sometimes. Basically, I'm wondering if 
> there's a relatively easy way to add ansi colour capabilities to the DGD 
> driver. There's a bit of documentation on the SourceForge site on this, and 
> some more on Dworkin's DGD FAQ, but again I have stumbled into a couple of 
> hurdles.
> 
> At first (while assessing DGD for the very first time), I downloaded the 
> dgd-1.2p4.zip experimental driver for Win32, which compiled out of the box, 
> and I've had very few concerns beyond the relatively small foreach() issue I 
> mentioned in my last question.
> 
> But, the ansi package pointed to in both the above sources seems to be for 
> DGD 1.1, and after unsuccessfully attempting to patch that package into 
> 1.2p4 (An expected result of what was only an experiment anyway), I 
> downloaded dgd-1.1.tar.gz only to find that it's (apparently) useless 
> without having Visual C++ installed.
> 
> Already I've downloaded and installed 'default' Cygwin plus it's patch 
> utility just to patch DGD, and while I am admittedly inexperienced with the 
> application, even following the explicit directions supplied at 
> http://phantasmal.sourceforge.net/DGD/Config/Customizing.html#ANSIColor , I 
> could only manage to make Cygwin produce a series of missing file errors, 
> even after triple checking that my commands and directory address were typed 
> in perfectly. After this much success, I'm rather leery about installing 
> more stuff on this rather small machine that I'll only use the once.
> 
> So my question is this: Is anyone aware of a downloadable, relatively 
> up-to-date version of DGD (1.2 would be ideal) that supports ansi 
> capabilities AND works out of the box for Win32 OS's, and if not, and of 
> course if Dworkin is not opposed to the idea, is there anyone willing to 
> create one for distribution?
> 
> Preferably, I'd rather not have any other added fluff like a mudlib etc., as 
> I have consistantly found that my own method and style of coding lpc is 
> somewhat different to most of what I have seen out there, and if at all 
> possible, I'd rather not have to learn, backtrack through and delete an 
> existing driver+mudlib package just to gain that one non-standard driver 
> capability that I do want.
> 
> I'll happily host it for others to download, indeed I believe there are 
> likely to be quite a few others who would like to have such a version of DGD 
> readily downloadable so they could start coding their mudlib right away 
> without needing to concern themselves with this particular issue. But it 
> seems unlikely to me that I would be able to create such a version myself, 
> simply due to the fact that I lack experience with the tools required to do 
> so.
> 
> As an aside, I apologise if these issues have been addressed in the mailing 
> list archives, but after downloading them all before posting my last 
> question, I found that attempting to read them left my machine in a state of 
> frozen shock after Wordpad shat itself while attempting to open them. So you 
> see, I did *try* Noah =)
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Shadow
> 
> 
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