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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:06 am
by Laps
Just curious - how did you tell which characters/commands/encoding the MUD was using? Is there documentation on this you could link me to so I can learn more?

Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 4:28 am
by SlySven
The fact that it was doing ASCII art immediately suggested the CP437 (often identified as the OEM font as it was often the one that is embedded in the EGA/VGA graphics adapter card's ROM by card manufacturers - that is what is used during the PC preboot ("accessing the BIOS CMOS setup/settings") / BIOS booting phase to generate the Power On Self Test {POST} text) encoding - and I had just been, as I said, adding it in as an EXTENDED ASCII codec.

As for the characters being used there is a qDebug() line in the code (as I said before) that was outputting a line of the form:

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TBuffer::translateToPlainText(...) INFO - Unhandled sequence of form CSI...C received, Mudlet will ignore it.
to the command line on Linux/FreeBSD (and possibly the other two main-line OSes as well) when an unknown/unhandled code is encountered and that was reporting the C (CUF cursor forward movement) and J (ED erase display) codes - for comparison the ones that do the SGR set graphics rendition are all indicated with a CSI...m. The reference document is https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp ... type=items but that is a little hard to comprehend - Wikipedia is easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code but less complete. :geek:

Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:25 pm
by Vadi
Mudlet 4.9 now shows it quite well:
cp437.gif
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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:57 pm
by jes56
In command mode, you can move the cursor with a number of keyboard commands. Certain letter keys, the arrow keys, and the Return key, Back Space (or Delete) ...

... the cursor. The following commands are available in insert mode. <ESC> return to command mode (exit insert mode) ... Cursor Movement Commands h, 7, ©H.

Jun 25, 2016 - nano cursor movement not working in Windows default console #55 ... the keyboard arrow keys it complains with a [ Unknown Command ] message, ... #31 (comment) in order to avoid the redirection is not supported error with ...

The full-screen text editor cursor movement commands depend on the ... If you are using software that does not support arrow key movement such as Mirror", ...
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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:40 pm
by SlySven
I am not sure what you are trying to say jes56 but Mudlet is not trying to emulate precisely a VT100 or other terminal emulator - and we do not claim (via the Telnet TTYPE option) that we do - therefore, for a MUD game server to be sending commands that we do not profess to handle, it is not surprising when they just don't work!