User:Pepeto

From Freeciv

[edit] Chat improvements ideas

My idea is to add some escape sequences in the chat line to have a better-looking client and make fast analysis of the message you receive from the server. Those escape sequences would look like:

• [color] ... [/color] abbreviation: [c] ... [/c]

This sequence would control with what color would be displayed the text contained between [color] and [/color].

Options:

• foreground abbreviation: fg
• background abbreviation: bg

Those options would take a string containing a color name (e.g. "red") or a html 24-bits style color #RRGGBB.

Example: [color foreground="white" background="black"]white on black[/color] → white on black

• [bold] ... [/bold] abbreviation: [b] ... [/b]

Example: [b]bold[/b] → bold

• [italic] ... [/italic] abbreviation: [i] ... [/i]

Example: [i]italic[/i] → italic

• [underline] ... [/underline] abbreviation: [u] ... [/u]

Example: [u]underline[/u] → underline

• [strike] ... [/strike] abbreviation: [s] ... [/s]

Example: [s]strike[/s] → strike

• [link] ... [/link] abbreviation: [l] ... [/l]

This sequence would allow to make clickable link.

Options

• target: controls what kind of target the link would point to (e.g. "tile", "city", "unit").
• id: controls what id the link would point to (a tile index, a city id or a unit id).
• x and y: instead of id, it would make a link from map coordonates.

Example: [link target="tile" x=5 y=9](5, 9)[/link] → (5, 9)