Cursor movement commands not supported

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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

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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?

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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

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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:

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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

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Mudlet 4.9 now shows it quite well:
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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

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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) ...

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Re: Cursor movement commands not supported

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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!

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