Capturing ANSI

Posted by DarkSlayer on Sat 11 Nov 2006 11:12 PM — 9 posts, 34,304 views.

DarkSlayer Sat 11 Nov 2006 11:12 PM #0

I was wondering if it is possible to capture only the ansified sections of a line and note/appendtonotepad them?

For example, (x) indicates x has ansi.

A (m)ulti(c)oloured li(n)e!

What I want to do is capture the m, c and n... possible?

Using JScript.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sun 12 Nov 2006 04:13 AM #1

You just want the letters? It is certainly possible, you can use GetStyleInfo to find where styles change in a line (that is, new colours).

http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?function=GetStyleInfo

You need to know the line number, in a trigger it is probably the last line, unless it was large enough to wrap around.

You can use GetLinesInBufferCount to find how many lines in the output window, and thus the line number of the last line:

http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?function=GetLinesInBufferCount

DarkSlayer Mon 13 Nov 2006 03:58 AM #2

Any chance you could give me an example?

Not sure how I could get the particular letters.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Tue 14 Nov 2006 07:41 PM #3

It is easiest in Lua because that gives a trigger the style runs for the triggered line. I will show you the idea in Lua, you can adapt that to Jscript if you want.

The trigger (currently matches everything):


<triggers>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="*"
   script="my_trigger"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>

And in my script file I had this code:


function my_trigger (name, line, wildcards, styles)

  for k, v in ipairs (styles) do
     print ("Style ", k, 
            " contents = ", v.text,
            " colour = ", RGBColourToName (v.textcolour))
  end -- for loop

end -- my_trigger

Running this on my prompt line gives me this:


Style  1  contents =  <  colour =  silver
Style  2  contents =  100/100hp   colour =  yellow
Style  3  contents =  143/143m   colour =  cyan
Style  4  contents =  210/210mv   colour =  lime
Style  5  contents =  0/343xp  colour =  magenta
Style  6  contents =  >  colour =  silver

You can see from this that the contents (the text of the style) is shown individually for each one, followed by its colour.

DarkSlayer Wed 15 Nov 2006 05:43 AM #4

Thanks alot. :)
I'll see how I go making a jscript version.

Cheers
-DS

Onoitsu2 USA Wed 15 Nov 2006 06:20 AM #5

Lots of luck to you in making the jscript version, but I don't think it will work, as the STYLES parameter that is passed into the function only exists in LUA.

In order to do it, you would have to get the number of the last line (the line that triggered the script to be called) and from there do a lot of mucking and tweaking of commands to parse it.

I suggest you start learning LUA, as it is the most powerful scripting language for plugin purposes, and it is not all that difficult, as if you know one language, you can easily transition its logic into LUA.

Again, good luck to you,

Laterzzz,
Onoitsu2

DarkSlayer Thu 16 Nov 2006 11:37 PM #6

Is it possible to use a LUA plugin while I use jscript for everything else? I've got way too much script to change to LUA...

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 17 Nov 2006 12:52 AM #7

Yes, every plugin can be in a different language.

DarkSlayer Fri 17 Nov 2006 02:22 AM #8

Thanks a ton for the help guys. :)

DS