More text colors

[Mr. Bougo]

Here u can download the final patch:
http://sites.google.com/site/terencehil ... evelopment

Great work man!

(just realized I'm a bit late, but I had to thank you)

[mand1nga]

Hey terencehill, did you show this to the Darkplaces people ?

[Mr. Bougo]

It's been committed to the SVN DarkPlaces and Nexuiz already :p

[mand1nga]

hahahah

amazing job terencehill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[terencehill]

tnx
I'm just returned from the holidays (no internet ) and I found the patch applied to the SVN, too cool

I saw that div (I guess) perfected the code, adding also the color picker... awesome!

Now everyone, even a 3 years old player (lol), knows that it's possible to color the text. Lot of ppl don't know the ^[0-9] tags too, so with Nexuiz 2.5, I expect more colored names, instead of many flat white names.

[divVerent]

Too bad it breaks qstat too, which most of the websites use that show player lists.

We need someone to make a patch for qstat that adds support for these color codes.

[esteel]

For someone that knows the qstat code a bit or has time to dig into it such an patch should be easy.. quake4 uses ^c??? with ? being 0-9 ( http://www.truecarnage.com/quake-4-colo ... rt-r24.htm ) and i'm quite certain qstat has quake4 support! I guess its easy to rip out that part and change it to support ^x??? with ? being 0-f. For the sake of qstat code quality maybe it can be made one more intelligent function?

[terencehill]

I've done the patch to qstat too: http://pastebin.com/f418a57bf

Now qstat strips ^xrgb codes (default qstat behaviour is to strip color codes), and can generate html codes (<font color="#rrggbb">) still using the same option -htmlnames

So qstat patched can be used exactly in the same way as before.

[terencehill]

I was asking myself: why use ^x (2 chars) and not a single char? It could be better IMO use for example *rgb rather than ^xrgb.

In this way the tags are 4 chars instead of 5, so quicker to type and to see.
More colors can be used on the name that has a limit of 64 chars: with ^xrgb max 10 (keeping 10+ chars to color), with *rgb max 12 (keeping 12+ chars to color).

Instead of ^x it could be used an ascii char rarely used:

One of these, with no compatibilty problem (I think):
@ ? ' * &

These ones are unusable, coz they are already used for other purposes:
# $ %

Is there any kind of problem using one of these chars (a part the small amount of time to chang the code)?

[divVerent]

@ is in email addresses, or used as "at"
? is in punctuation
' is in it's
* is often used to *emphasize* stuff
& is an "and"

Sorry, none of these should be given a special meaning.