ansicolors.lua isn't 100% mine; it's actually a fork of this other lib. I used string interpolations instead of literals and functions like him. I've also added some rudimentary check for windows, so windows users don't get garbage on their console (call it "graceful degradation", if you might).
Let me know if you find any bugs or have any feature requests for it.
thelinx wrote:Sorry, but I don't see how this is related to LÖVE.
I'd suggest you post this to the Lua mailing list.
As pretty much all the libs I've released so far, it's a Lua library, and it can work independently from LÖVE.
I realize that LÖVE's main interface is the LÖVE window, but the console is also there if you want to use it. So I guessed a little bling on that side wouldn't hurt.
ishkabible wrote:lol, shutdown. any way can you post some examples maybe?
BlackBulletIV wrote:Looks good mate! Reminds of that Richtext library that Robin had going.
Speaking of whom, I heard he also wrote a similar library/function, for a Lua text adventure game library. It has HTML-like tags, and is semantically rather than presentation oriented. For example: "You grab the <o>Sword of Ultimate Justice</o>.", "Type <c>help</c> to get some help." or "On your left is a door to <r>the cellar</r>." or things like that. (o for object, c for command, r for room, you get the idea.)
Speaking of RichText, I really ought to update it or something. Write a decent word wrapping algorithm, for example.
BlackBulletIV wrote:Looks good mate! Reminds of that Richtext library that Robin had going.
Speaking of whom, I heard he also wrote a similar library/function, for a Lua text adventure game library. It has HTML-like tags, and is semantically rather than presentation oriented. For example: "You grab the <o>Sword of Ultimate Justice</o>.", "Type <c>help</c> to get some help." or "On your left is a door to <r>the cellar</r>." or things like that. (o for object, c for command, r for room, you get the idea.)
Speaking of RichText, I really ought to update it or something. Write a decent word wrapping algorithm, for example.
Are you speaking about yourself or kikito there? Either way, that sounds pretty cool.
TechnoCat wrote:
BlackBulletIV wrote:Looks good mate! Reminds of that Richtext library that Robin had going.
This is for your console output, not for things drawn to love.
I know that; I was referring to the syntax (as Robin said) and the general idea.
BlackBulletIV wrote:Looks good mate! Reminds of that Richtext library that Robin had going.
This is for your console output, not for things drawn to love.
I assume he was thinking about the similar syntax.
Non-Existing-God, I really need to work on RT again. I haven't even reviewed luminosity's patch!
I'm just on the verge of having a look at the word wrapping in RT to try to fix up the problems it's got for me. Just as soon as I fix the few hundred timing errors I introduced when I fixed a bug in my event system :/
