Zugg Software :: View topic - Echo back ANSI-tagged strings

Apprentice Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 100 Location: USA

Sample ANSI-tagged string here:

[30m 0[31m 1[0m 2[33m 3[34m 4[35m 5[36m 6[37m 7[1;30m 8[1;31m 9[1;32m 10[1;33m 11[1;34m 12[1;35m 13[1;36m 14[1;37m 15[0m

This has every color I want to echo back. I am not sure how to display the color associated with each tag back on the screen though.

Newbie Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Australia

Depending on how you send text to your mud, you should just be able to include it as part of that. For example:

send_to_char("ANSI 123456 ANSI.rn", ch)

Replace the first ANSI with the escape sequence for the color you want, and the second ANSI with the escape sequence for normal text color (the first escape sequence in your list).

When you've got a handle on it, you can map the escape sequence values to something else more easily written in your text (eg. &r for red, &g for green, etc)

Note that while zMUD does include a few escape sequences, the whole ANSI system is generally dealt with by your mud's code and is independant of zMUD.