"window=[m]"

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Jun 2 2003, 10:47 am
Well, I am trying to get a showcode like verb in my game, so I'll just call it that for now.
mob
     verb
          showcode(m as message)
                world << browse(m,"window=[m]")


What happens is, you type the message, and it come up in one line! Like if I typed:
mob
verb
showcode
it would come up as:

mob verb showcode

Does anyone know the problem?
Jun 2 2003, 11:19 am (Edited on Jun 2 2003, 1:14 pm)
Yes. Your problem is that the new lines when typing something into the message box are represented by "\n". HTML does not recognize this, and uses <BR> instead. You'll have to replace all instances of "\n" with <BR>
var/pos
pos = findtext(m,"\n")
while(pos)
  m = copytext(m,1,pos)+"<BR>"+copytext(m,pos+1)
  pos = findtext(m,"\n")
Jun 2 2003, 12:19 pm
In response to Garthor
Not trying to be contradictory, but what about tabs? Anything for those?
Jun 2 2003, 12:20 pm
In response to Maz
Tabs are the \t character, and you should probably replace them with a bunch of &nbsp .
Jun 2 2003, 1:06 pm
In response to Maz
No, tabs do not do anything either. I'm sorry Garthor, but I didn't follow much of what you said...I guess I'll just skip this command for a bit...
Jun 2 2003, 1:12 pm
In response to Garthor
Garthor wrote:<code> > var/pos > pos = findtext(m,"\n") > while(pos) > m = copytext(m,1,pos)+"<BR>"+copytext(m,pos+</code>2<code>) > pos = findtext(m,"\n")</code>

That should be 1 instead of 2.
Jun 2 2003, 1:14 pm
In response to OneFishDown
Oh yeah, you're right. Oops.
Jun 2 2003, 9:38 pm
In response to Dragon of Ice
There's a far simpler solution to this; surround the text in <pre> tags. =P
<code> mob verb showcode(m as message) world << browse("<pre>[m]</pre>","window=[m]")</ code>
Jun 3 2003, 11:22 am
In response to Crispy
Of course, that's assuming he doesn't want color and such to be preserved.