I suppose attaching it would help... *bonks self*
Josh
The problem: to get something like this:
/-------------\
| [ ] |
| | |
| [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| \ |
| [ ] |
|-------------/
(keep in mind color codes from Lope's color are there too)
into something like this:
Neat and tidy, with flowers scenting the air, the room is sparsely
furnished. A table sits off to one side, surrounded by three chairs. A
fire glows in the kitchens stone oven, and the smell of fresh bread drifts
tantalizingly in the air, mixing with the delicate aroma of the flowers. A
flight of stone steps on the west wall lead to the upper floor. To the
southeast you see a small opening and the to the nort is a large enterance.
without going over the 75 char mark.
ie:
/-------------\ Neat and tidy, with flowers scenting the air, the room is
| [ ] | sparsely furnished. A table sits off to one side,
| | | surrounded by three chairs. A fire glows in the kitchens
| [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | stone oven, and the smell of fresh bread drifts
| \ | tantalizingly in the air, mixing with the delicate aroma
| [ ] | of the flowers. A flight of stone steps on the west wall
|-------------/ lead to the upper floor. To the southeast you see a small
opening and the to the north is a large enterance.
now i have a function that returns a string(the map) in a format like this:
"/-------------\\ \n\r| [ ] |\n\r"... and im pretty sure it works ok...
heres the first try at the function i use to plug it in:
char *insert_string( const char *oldstring, char *insert )
{
char *tempstr;
char templine[MSL];
char *inserted;
int line = 1;
tempstr = str_dup(oldstring); /* format needs a duplicated string*/
tempstr = format_string( tempstr, FALSE ); /* if it hasnt been formatted,
/* do so now*/
while( *insert )
{
insert = getline(insert, templine); /*gets first line of map */
strcat( templine, string_linecpy( tempstr, line ) );
/*adds it in front of the first normal line*/
string_linedel(tempstr, line); /*del old line*/
string_lineadd(tempstr, templine, line); /* add the new one*/
format_string( tempstr, FALSE ); /*format it, so line isnt too long*/
if( ++line > 20) /*some error checking */
{
bug("insert_string: repeating loop, for( *insert )",0);
break;
}
}
format_string( tempstr, FALSE ); /* format any lines lower then the map*/
return str_dup(tempstr);
}
(ignore the FALSE in format string for right now)
This is the end result:
/-------------\ Neat and tidy, with flowers scenting the air, the |
[ ] | room is sparsely furnished. A table sits off to one side,
| | | surrounded by three chairs. A fire glows in the kitchens |
[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | stone oven, and the smell of fresh bread |
\ | drifts tantalizingly in the air, mixing with the delicate aroma of
| [ ] | the flowers. A flight of stone steps on the west wall
|-------------/ lead to the upper floor. To the southeast you see a
small opening and the to the nort is a large enterance.
now it looks to me that its mostly working, except that format_string is
eating all the spaces in the map. So i made a bool case to format_string
called ignoretilde and had the map function return its map like this:
~/-------------\~
~| [ ] |~
~| | |~
~| [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |~
~| \ |~
~| [ ] |~
~|-------------/~
since i know that my string(room desc) wont have any tildes in it,
then i add this to the for(rdesc = oldstring; *rdesc; rdesc++)
loop in format string.
ignore = FALSE;
for(rdesc = oldstring; *rdesc; rdesc++)
{
if( ignoretilde )
{
if( *rdesc == '~' )
{
ignore = !ignore;
xbuf[i++] = *rdesc;
continue;
}
else if( ignore )
{
xbuf[i++] = *rdesc;
continue;
}
}
/*rest of loop as normal*/
then remembering the tildes are gonna add to the spaces and it will be off
format i change
the for(;;) loop so it should keep the tildes in mind and make the lines bigger.
to this:
for( ;; )
{
int z=0;
for (i=0; i < (77 + z) ; i++)
{
if (!*(rdesc+i))
break;
else if(*(rdesc+i) == '~')
{
if(ignoretilde)
z++;
}
}
if (i< (77 + z) )
{
break;
}
for ( i = ( (xbuf[0]?76:73) + z ) ; i ; i--)
{
if (*(rdesc+i)==' ')
break;
}
if (i)
{
*(rdesc+i)=0;
strcat(xbuf,rdesc);
strcat(xbuf,"\n\r");
rdesc += i+1;
while (*rdesc == ' ') rdesc++;
}
else
{
bug ("No spaces", 0);
*(rdesc+75+z)=0;
strcat(xbuf,rdesc);
strcat(xbuf,"-\n\r");
rdesc += (76+z);
}
}
}
i have a function that removes the tildes afterwards, which is just simple,
so i threw that at the bottom of insert_string, and compiled, then tested
it and i got this:
/-------------\ Neat and tidy, with flowers scenting the air, the
|
[ ] | room is sparsely furnished. A table sits off to
| [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one | | | side,
| \ | surrounded by three chairs. A fire glows in the
|
[ ] | kitchens stone oven, and the smell of fresh bread
drifts |-------------/ tantalizingly in the air, mixing with the
delicate aroma of the flowers. A flight of stone steps on the west wall
lead to the upper floor. To the southeast you see a small opening and the
to the nort is a large enterance.
Now i think without the tildes, the first one seems to work fine, except that
it likes to move the first | on the line before, i think i see that in the
code,
but with the additions im completely stumped. If anyone has any ideas how to
fix
my mess of a code, or a better way of doing this, i'd like to hear it.
the only other idea i had was replacing all spaces in the map with tildes, then
formatting it, then replacing them back, after this email i might try that, but
this has got me baffled, because im not that great at strings in general.
i -thought- i had the conceptual down, but obviously not. Also... the
format_string() function seems to be messed up with color codes... is this
true?
Is it that i just need to work on a better format_string function?
thanks in advance... sorry the email was so long...
Josh
