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From: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <caliban@darklock.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:06:34 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Ben Chambers wrote:
> Why not implement it as the next generation of MUD standards. Make
> it so ALL servers sent out that data, and ALL clients recieve that
> type of data you could have many different flags. you coul even
> advance it to the point where clients send tagged to. for instance
> arrow keys, or text input. that way they could move with only the
> arrow keys.
As a stopgap idea, why not use ANSI escape sequences? Simply set two
background/foreground colors on each output call. This gives you a
nice solid 128 output codes. If you send the sequence:
$e[30,40m$e[37,40m
The text still gets displayed as standard grey-on-black, and the user
never sees the first code. But a lot of clients could be *scripted* to
respond to this sequence at the beginning of a line. Or you could
resurrect AVATAR, with a few small modifications.
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