Subj : Color parsing
To   : echicken
From : Kirkman
Date : Sun Dec 03 2017 02:36 pm

  Re: Color parsing
  By: echicken to Kirkman on Sun Dec 03 2017 03:28 pm

 ec> The foreground colour is in the lower three bits of the byte.
 ec> var fg = attr&7; // 7 is essentially (1<<0)|(1<<1)|(1<<2)

Wow, that was fast! Thanks, echicken. 

I was looking around online and experimenting with a bitwise calculator, and I
ended up doing something like this:

// Use bitwise AND with a mask to get the four rightmost bits.
// dec 15  |  bin 00001111  |  hex 0xf
var fg = theAttr & 15;  

// Use bitwise AND with a mask to get the four leftmost bits.
// dec 240 |  bin 11110000  |  hex 0xf0
var bg = theAttr & 240;

I think it's working, but I have other issues in my code to sort out before I
can say 100%.

Then I'm doing fg = fg & 7 to change high colors into low equivalents.

--Josh

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