#10 Handling OSP Colors

[RRx^Zero]

(Note: I play RTCW exclusively, so I’m not sure how this
would work with ET or any other game WolfStat
supports)

I’m not sure how hard it is, but I was wondering if
WolfStat could have better awareness of OSP color
codes…

From the OSP Readme:

There are 32 color escape codes in the OSP UI and
cgame modules. From the normal ^0 - ^7, the following
are also available:

- ^8, ^9, ^<, ^>, ^:, ^;, ^=, ^?, ^@
- ^A - ^O (note, caps MUST be used to get
the proper color)
- For future compatibility with Main/, use ^p
(lower case) for the color black.

Now, my nick is RRx^Zero. The “Zero” is supposed to be
the color black, so on any server (except OSP), my
name is: “^1RRx^7^^8Zero”, however, when I log into
an OSP server, the black turns Orange, so I need to
change my name to: “^1RRx^7^^pZero”.
Our servers run both OSP and shrub, and I know these
are completely separate logs, but sometimes I forget to
change my name when I bounce back and forth between
the servers. Subsequently, our logs shows my name
twice as two separate players (which makes my stats
look terrible… :)

In fact, as far as I know, WolfStat doesn’t understand
the 32 color codes for OSP, because our stats output
shows my shrub name correctly as “RRx^Zero”, but
shows my OSP name incorrectly as “RRx^^pZero”. Looks
like it doesn’t know what to do with the “^p”.

Now, I haven't had the chance to look at your code, so
I’m not sure how it runs and I may be incorrect in my
assumptions, but here’s my humble suggestion:

Color codes are a lot like HTML tags – they’re markup for
the name. Markup shouldn’t determine the value of a
tag, it should only describe it. So, when determining
stats for a player, I would strip out all color information
from the name in order to determine if it was unique or
not – this way “^1RRx^7^^pZero”
and “^1RRx^7^^8Zero” are the same name value after
stripping out the color “markup”: “RRx^Zero”.
You could use the following regular expression in a
replace function to strip a name of the above 32 escape
codes:

\^[0-9A-Op<>:;=\?@]

This should work for both OSP and non-OSP names.

Hope this helps and Thanks!
Zero.

[Pontus Ullgren]

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hmmm ... seems true ... the problem is is there any regexp
suport on MS Cripple^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Windows ?

I'll have a look at it.

[RRx^Zero]

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Not sure if you're using COM in your Windows version - I
guess you must be if you're using MSXML, but you can use
the VBScript Regular Expressions object:

c:\winnt\System32\vbscript.dll
{3F4DACA7-160D-11D2-A8E9-00104B365C9F}

This gives you access to a RegExp object with a convenient
replace method:

(sorry, I'm a VB developer... ::ducks::)

Dim lobjX As New RegExp
Dim lstrNewName As String
Dim lstrOldName As String

lstrOldName = "^1RRx^7^^pZero"

' SET MATCH PATTERN
lobjX.Pattern = "\^[0-9A-Op<>:;=\?@]"
' SET TO REPLACE ALL INSTANCES IN STRING
lobjX.Global = True

' EXECUTE REPLACE WITH NULLSTRING
lstrNewName = lobjX.Replace(lstrOldName, "")

Good luck!
Zero.