[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/8356 Run embedtext on map name when it is automatically displayed when you fi

[Ralph Versteegen]

On 28 January 2017 at 13:10, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> We ought to support embedded codes in *all* visible strings. Conceivably
> even hero names! "${H0}'s dog". Most significantly, text slices should
> support them. Do you think anyone has ever displayed ${...} codes in
> slices? We could just add a backcompat bitset for it. Also, we should add a
> way to escape the ${...} codes; I was thinking of $${...} to display as
> ${...}. The rule could simply be "replace $${ with ${ and don't search the
> result for ${...} codes".  Then $${...} can be escaped to $$${...}, etc.
>
> Also, I decided that it's best not to use ${...} codes for markup
> supported by printstr such as color and font. ${...} should be exclusively
> for inserting a string variable in the text, as in many programming
> languages. Instead I was thinking of using #{...}, or maybe quite different
> syntax which has (optional) closing tags, like $[col45]...$[/col], since
> closing tags really are needed (right now I'm using -1 to mean 'restore
> previous'). Other tag names could include colbg, pal, spc (no closing tag),
> font, indent, indentr, and even link=.
>

Plus also no-argument $[b], $[i], $[h] tags, which switch to the
bold/italic/highlight font.
Actually, maybe we can just use [b], [col45], etc, or <b>, <col45>... and
add a backcompat bit to enable them, and use a $ prefix to escape them

>
> Finally, I would like ${...} to also be interpreted directly by HSpeak to
> embed values in strings (use the name of some variable that's in-scope).
> It's the easiest way to build a string. You should still have a choice
> whether the codes are expanded immediately at point of use in the script,
> or left and expanded each tick that they are displayed (in a textslice or
> elsewhere), so that they can continually update. (Currently textboxes
> expand all codes when first displayed, which I would like to change to
> each-tick. A back-compat bitset will probably be needed) This choice could
> be made in the same way as Python 3.6 and FB, by adding a prefix to the
> string literal: FB has !"..." and Python 3.6 allows arbitrary embedded
> expressions like f"{name} said {getExpression(42)}".
> An obvious choice might be to use a $ prefix, but maybe $"foo" looks too
> similar to $0="foo",
>
> On 26 January 2017 at 10:38, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> james
>> 2017-01-25 13:38:04 -0800 (Wed, 25 Jan 2017)
>> 89
>> Run embedtext on map name when it is automatically displayed when you
>> first enter a map.
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>> U   wip/game.bas
>> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
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