Subj : Fix for frame.js
To   : alterego
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Aug 01 2020 11:42 pm

  Re: Fix for frame.js
  By: alterego to Digital Man on Sun Aug 02 2020 03:56 pm

 >   Re: Fix for frame.js
 >   By: Digital Man to alterego on Sat Aug 01 2020 12:23 pm
 >
 >  DM> I'm not clear why a '\n' should reset any colors at all. <shrug>
 >
 > I was working on what happens with console.putmsg() vs frame.putmsg().
 >
 > Take this snippet:
 >
 > load('frame.js');
 > console.putmsg('\1h\1Rblack/red\x017\1kgray/black\1nblack/red?');
 > foo = new Frame(1,4,80,5,BG_BLACK|LIGHTGRAY);
 > foo.putmsg('\1h\1Gblack/green\x017\1kgray/black\1nblack/green?');
 > foo.open();
 > foo.cycle();
 >
 > It should render 3 pairs of 2 words - the words being the
 > background/forground color.
 >
 > In the first case (console.putmsg):
 > * black/red is red text on a black background
 > * gray/black is black text on a gray background
 > * black/red? is NOT red text on a black background, but rather gray text on
 > a black ground.
 >
 > IE: \n appears to have reset the colors to back background with gray text.
 >
 > In the second case, using frame:
 > * black/green is in fact green text on a black background
 > * gray/black is in fact black text on a gray background
 > * black/green is NOT green text on a black background, but rather black text
 > on a gray background.
 >
 > IE: \n appears to have reset the foreground color only
 >
 > (This is prior to the patches I provided you.)
 >
 > My patch for frame.js that I provided you was to have frame.putmsg be
 > consistent with console.putmsg().
 >
 > If \n should not reset any colors at all, why does it in this case?

Are we still conflating \1n with \n?

'\1n' is: Ctrl-A (attribute), 'N' (normal).

'\n' is C/JS speak for 'new-line character' (or line-feed, ASCII 10).

A '\n' should not be resetting any colors and I don't see any \n's in your example code above.

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