Background

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Jan 29 2003, 4:49 pm
 
var/bckcolor= "green"
client/script = "<STYLE>BODY {background: [bckcolor]; color: silver}</STYLE>"

mob/verb/color(t as text)
bckcolor= t


What im trying to do is make a verb towhere the user can change the background color in client. But it will not allow vars in it for some reason. Is there another way to resolve around?

Jan 29 2003, 4:51 pm
Something can not be set to a variable at compile time. You need to set client/script at runtime.
Jan 29 2003, 4:57 pm
In response to Garthor
How would that be done? I really don't see a way through
Jan 30 2003, 2:23 pm
In response to Jacob
Iv'e just ran into another problem.
        Background(T as text)
            set category = "Host"
            if(usr.key == host)
                client << "<STYLE>BODY {background: [T]; color: silver}</STYLE>"
                color= T
            else
                usr << "You can't"


At first I thought it worked but when when someone talks the background goes back to white =-\
Jan 30 2003, 4:44 pm
Try something like this..

var/bckcolor="green"
client
   proc/Updatescript()
      style = "<STYLE>BODY {background: [bckcolor]; color: silver}</STYLE>"
   New()
      ..();Updatescript()

mob/verb/color(t as text)
   usr.client.bckcolor=t


This snippet is doing what you wish, although I would have people pick from a list of colors in the color verb instead of typing it in.

(This would provide a better chance of people not familiar with HTML, picking a correct color.)

Also I would make bckcolor a client variable instead of a global one.

Lance
...Guardian of Dragons...
Jan 30 2003, 5:05 pm
In response to Dragon Guardian
Yeah I plan on having a list but right now im just trying to figure out to get this to work.

Hmm that one doesn't seem to be working for me either I have errors
Jan 30 2003, 10:36 pm
In response to Jacob
Jacob wrote:
Iv'e just ran into another problem.
>       Background(T as text)
>           set category = "Host"
>           if(usr.key == host)
>               client << "<STYLE>BODY {background: [T]; color: silver}</STYLE>"
>               color= T
>           else
>               usr << "You can't"

At first I thought it worked but when when someone talks the background goes back to white =-\

well you can just set that to a variable and display it everytime.
mob/var
     style
     color = "black" //bg color
     tcolor = "white" //text color
mob/New()
     style = "<STYLE>BODY {background: [src.color]; color: [src.tcolor}</STYLE>"



//good to have a list of players
<dm>var/list/Players = list()
mob/Login()
      Players += src
      ..()
mob/Logout()
      Players -= src
      del(src)

then for a say verb
mob/verb/Say(T as text)
      Players << "[style] [usr] says [T]"

that might work.