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New OnPluginLineRecievedEx addition..

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Posted by Shadowfyr USA (1,792 posts) Bio

Date Thu 05 Dec 2002 06:28 PM (UTC)

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Well.. As you have been saying nick, you don't really know how to handle giving the user the color and other info in the line itself. So here is my proposed solution (or at least more or less how I would code it if there was a way to get the 'raw' ansi line. ;)

Client pre-processing.
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\
 function Parse_Ansi (Ansi_Line)
   dim Output, codes
   dim Valid = "0123456789;,"
   for count = 1 to len(Ansi_Line)
     if mid$(Ansi_Line,count,1) = chr(27) then
       Output = Output & "<Ansi-"
       codes = ""
       for acount = count + 2 to len(Ansi_Line)
         temp = mid$(Ansi_Line,acount,1)
         if instr(Valid,temp) then
           codes = codes & mid$(Ansi_Line,acount,1)
         else
           ..Check type and encode codes..
           select case temp
             case "m"
               dim codelist
               codelist = split(codes,";")
               value = 0
               Output = Output & "Attr("
               for ccount = 0 to ubound(codelist)
                 select case codelist(ccount)
                   case 30-37,39,40-47,49
                     Output = Output & codelist(ccount) & ";"
                   case 1-28
                     value = value + 2^codelist(ccount)
                 end select
               next
               Output = Output & "#" & hex(value) & ")"
             case else
               Output = Output & "NS"
           end select
           Output = Output + ">"
           count = acount
           exit for
         end if
       next
     else
       Output = Output + mid$(Ansi_Line,count,1)
     end if
   next
 end function
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 Ex: <Ansi-Attr(34;40;#1000048)> = Italic, Fast blink and underline off.
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 V
 BStr OnPluginLineRecievedEx (BStr aline)
   Whatever the user wants to do with it..
   OnPluginLineRecievedEx = aline
 end function
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 V
 function Recode_Ansi (aline)
   Reverse the process on returned line..
 end function
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 /
Client final processing.

The point after all is not to 'hand' them the colors, etc. Just make them accessable in a way they can identify and change or skip over them. ;) As for MXP/Pueblo, that is already plain text and unsupported ansi codes can just be stripped out in the Recode_Ansi part of the process or ignored completely. The point is that it is not impossible to code a simple way to handle the ansi, even if all we had was the raw line. It would be 'slightly' more complex in vbscript since the case statement for the attributes would have to use if-then, due to being unable to test a 'range' of values in a case statement, but I seem to remember that C++ can. The only real issue imho is if you want to provide this level of control to users and without it, you could add item replacement to triggers, but the result would be far less versitile. Also, as I said befoer, in some cases like I mentioned with muds that begin using MXP, but refuse to follow the specs you can't 'fix' it from the client end.

Well you could.. But that would require turning mxp off, and processing the tags yourself, which if any ansi was used would still fail because you can't get style info on omitted lines. You would probably also have to process triggers, etc. through the script, since there is a bit difference between 'You see a red ball.' and 'You see a <color fore="red">red ball</c>.' Changing some things Pre-process is imho the only real option.

The no-style changes available for omitted lines thing still needs to be addressed to though.. Just about everyone I have talked to about it has aggreed that it severely limits the use of the option and what they would have considered using it for. Some of those issues would be addressed fairly easilly with the pre-process feature, but not necessarilly all of them.

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,173 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #1 on Sun 08 Dec 2002 08:06 PM (UTC)

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I'll see what I can do in a future version. :)

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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