This is cool, I've not done this with my mud, but i've done it before. Want to really improve it? Use telnet negotiation, implement NAWS, and use the terminal width where applicable. Then when you have players that use 120 rows, they'll not be confined to 80.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Send_to_char_centered() and divide() > > > Ok this is half a little snippet and half a suggestions e-mail. I have > two handy functions called send_to_char_centered() and divide. > Send_to_char_centered() will center a string of text to a screen 80 > spaces wide, while divide will use stcc to make a divider. > The syntax for > send_to_char_centered is: send_to_char_centered( "Hello world!", ch ); > And for divide it's: divide( 40, ch ); This will make: > ---------------------------------------- > The code for the two are right here. So far I havn't found any bugs > except if you try to go over 78 '---'s in divide it will > crash the MUD. I > just know SOMETHING has to be more wrong than that. Any > suggestions for > improvement guys? Here's the code (Yes it's in semi-C++ for now): > > /************************************************************* > ********* > File: Util.cpp Description: Various text manipulation > utilities > Author: Devin Torres Date: March 20, 2002 > > ************************************************************** > ********/ > > /************************************************************* > ********* > Needed includes. > > ************************************************************** > ********/ > #include <cstdio> > #include <ctime> > #include <string> > #include "merc.h" > > /************************************************************* > ********* > Center a string of text. > > ************************************************************** > ********/ > void send_to_char_centered( char *txt, CHAR_DATA *ch ) > { > char buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH]; > short int length; > > buf[0] = '\0'; > length = strlen( txt ); > > if ( length > 78 ) > length = 78; > > if ( length < 1 ) > length = 1; > > length /= 2; > length = 40 - length; > > do > { > strcat( buf, " " ); > length--; > } while ( length != 0 ); > > strcat( buf, txt ); > send_to_char( buf, ch ); > } > > /************************************************************* > ********* > Build a centered divider for text. > > ************************************************************** > ********/ > void divide( short int length, CHAR_DATA *ch ) > { > char buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH]; > > buf[0] = '\0'; > > if ( length > 78 ) > length = 78; > > if ( length < 1 ) > length = 1; > > do > { > strcat( buf, "-" ); > length--; > } while ( length != 0 ); > > send_to_char_centered( buf, ch ); > } > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
