Ansi color

[Vitaly]

Do you guys know how to make color in lambda moo.

[dicanomi]

@ansi on maybe?
I dont know lambda moo and it could also be your client not the moo...

[Jesper]

Cybersphere can and will output in ansi if you type @ansi on. After that it's a matter of your client.

zMUD and Mushclient are two popular clients that will output in ansi.

[Vitaly]

I was thinking more along the lines of experimenting with MinimalDB core and adding color to it.

[Clockwork]

You can install ansi utils on your MOO.

Once you dot hat you'll have to edit the DB and insert an escape char.
Alternatively, you can edit your db, insert the escape char and code your own ansi tools.

[Vitaly]

Thanks Clockwork, I will give it a shot.

[rage]

the minimal.db core is hardcore! also, adding ANSI color sucks, i haven't done it in about 10 years but i remember it sucking. if anyone can point out the specifics of how to add ANSI, that'd be swell, since i need to do it again at some point.

[Anguissette]

LambdaMOO doesn't have any color by default so he isn't necessarily talking about a minimal DB.

[Captain_AHaB]

As Clockwork mentioned, it's fairly simple. The hardest part, which isn't hard, is adding the escape character. This can be done by making a prop on some object and make it's value something that you won't find on the core, like "monkeyturds", then simply write a quick perl script to search and replace "monkeyturds" with the escape character.

After that, you can either copy an ansi_utils or write your own. Writing your own will allow you to implement any sort of escape character option you want. I'm a fan of the background colors and BEEP myself!

[AgentOrrange]

Who wants to play on a game where you won't find monkeyturds anywhere.

[Captain_AHaB]

Who wants to play on a game where you won't find monkeyturds anywhere.

A very valid point, sir.

[Vitaly]

There is another alternative to making ascii color, is by modifying and compiling lambdamoo kernel itself.

You can add another internal function to return an a character based on ascii code.

i.e. in list.c you can add the following

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static package
bf_char(Var arglist, Byte next, void *vdata, Objid progr)
{
    static char ascii_char[] = "?";
    Var r;
    if(arglist.v.list[1].type != TYPE_INT) return make_error_pack(E_TYPE);
    ascii_char[0] = (char)arglist.v.list[1].v.num;

    r.type  = TYPE_STR;
    r.v.str = ascii_char;

    free_var(arglist);
    return make_var_pack(r);
}

then register the function similar to bf_length.

Then you can print any character you want. Including ASCII control character.