Personally I wouldn't waste my time coding this. I have told my area builders to not capitalize Random and Useless words in short descriptions. The only capitals I use are either proper nouns or words I want emphasized. This way it keeps the "You get a strange thing" and "You get a Bruce Lee DVD" looking correct. The same goes with my mob's short descriptions, so you don't get something like "Your kick decimates A Dirty Rat." Anyways, that's my opinion. -Matt Foltz
--- Jennifer King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey list, > > I've recently written a few functions to handle > capitalization and > lower-casing of colored strings to use throughout > the code to clean things > up in the game a little. > > For example, > Using colorcap() with "a Strange Thing", you'd get: > "You get A Strange Thing." > Using colorlow() with "A Strange Thing", you'd get: > "You get a Strange Thing." > Using colorlow_all() with "A Strange Thing", you'd > get: "You get a strange thing." > > Now, most of the places where this would be used is > handled by act() or > act_new(). I can make a modified version of act_new > to handle formatting > options or I can go through the code and modify > everything to use sprintf > to handle the formatted parts before sending it to > act/act_new (so > mobprogs will still trigger). I'm not very crazy > about either option, so I > was wondering if anyone else has any opinions or > suggestions on the best > way to do this. > > Please forgive me if I didn't explain it very well, > my mind is shot after > a full day of javascript/php coding at work and then > working on this stuff > since then. > > Thanks for any input! > RD > > --- > RogueDragon @ A Merging of Fates MUD > telnet://mud.merging.org:5454 > icq: 2072355, yim: roguedragon, aim: roguedragon69 > --- > Windows - Where do you want to go today? > Linux - Where do you want to go tomarow? > FreeBSD - When are you two going to catch up? > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
