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Old 09-16-2010, 03:57 PM   #98
shadowfyr
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Re: The mud client poll

Not.. Efficiently. The mini-window isn't designed for it at all, and coding the extra stuff in script, to handle paging.. It would really have to be done more directly, in the main window, not via scripting, I think. Mind, not a lot of muds actually use the stuff anyway, its just a tiny few that do, and its often buried in the prompt systems (like changing the line of the prompt to update time, or something, without sending an entire new prompt), etc. Its not necessary to even have the feature, but its damned annoying for it to be missing, if you a) need it, or b) want to connect to something running an older game. An example might be trying to run TW2002, via a mud client, so you can take advantage of its scripting ability. It was written for dialup, it works, with some help, via Telnet, but almost nothing in existence supports **all** of the text control functions in ANSI, while also having any sort of complex script system, of any kind at all. FSM forbid someone got it into their head to do some of that stuff on a mud, and found that 99% of the clients either don't support it well (there is no protocol for asking, "Do you support all of ANSI, of just bits of it?", really, and certainly not color, but not cursor movement codes, since the former was added later than the "more critical" cursor controls...), or work poorly, or are almost feature non-existent, if they did.
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