[wish] colored chatlog

[Stefan Kriwanek (Divan)]

I'd like to have the authors in the console chatlog colored, like in the game.

I've done a patch that does this on linux machines and will try to add one for windows, too.

[Stefan Kriwanek (Divan) (dev-stefankriwanek)]

A second patch, to include colored chat destination (All, Allies, Enemies)

[Stefan Kriwanek (Divan) (dev-stefankriwanek)]

A try on windows. please test.

[FloSoft (flosoft)]

applied in 4834 (and fixed some bugs in that patch)

Divan schrieb:
> A try on windows. please test.
>
> ** Attachment added: "termcolor_win.patch"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26446508/termcolor_win.patch
>

[Stefan Kriwanek (Divan) (dev-stefankriwanek)]

FloSoft once asked for a better match between ingame and terminal colors. Yesterday I discovered that most Linux terminals support 256 colors and (at least) xterm and gnome-terminal can even change the palette. Here's the code to make use of both, I feel it looks very nice compared to now; furthermore colors cannot get jumbled by using modifyed 16 ANSI colors anymore.

Unfortunately there seems to be no reliable way to figure out a terminal's capabilities (as we're running an X game we can safely assume 256 color support, but not a dynamic palette, e.g. konsole does not support it.) Therefore, my patch contains a minor regression: on those terminals with a static palette, both dark gray and dark brown are mapped onto two nearly indistinguishable levels of gray. For me, however, the current mapping of gray/brown/orange looks much more weird.