Subj : JS Commission?
To   : echicken
From : Android8675
Date : Mon Jul 20 2020 01:21 pm

  Re: JS Commission?
  By: echicken to Android8675 on Wed Jul 15 2020 10:43 pm

 >   Re: JS Commission?
 >   By: Android8675 to echicken on Wed Jul 15 2020 09:40:17
 >
 > I would probably do this:
 >
 > const fg = ['green', 'white', 'white', 'yellow'];
 > const bg = ['black', 'black', 'blue', 'black'];
 > const colors = console.getnum(4, 1) - 1;
 >
 > bbs.exec(
 >  'frotz '
 >  ...
 >  + '-f ' + fg[colors]
 >  + '-b ' + bg[colors]
 >  ...
 > );
 >
 > Where 'fg' and 'bg' are arrays of strings. If the user hits '4', fg[3] and
 > bg[3] would be used, so the user would get yellow-on-black, and so on. (If
 > I'm understanding your goal properly.)

Yeah, that looks right, and verified that the results I need are getting passed to bbs.exec, but I think frotz doesn't like something. It's throwing up TERMCAP errors. I had to catch the output in a janky way, but it threw up:

ERROR: Unknown terminal: ansi-bbs
                                 Check the TERM environment variable.
                                                                     Also make s
ure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
                                                          Alternatively, set the
 TERMCAP environment variable to the desired
                                            termcap entry
--clip--

Tried with both frotz and dfrotz, same error.

 >  >> console.putmsg(" 3.\1h\14 White on Blue\1n");
 >
 > Not sure. Try \x014 instead of \14 and see if it helps.

That did it. Thanks.
-A.

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