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Display Functions

A collection of functions for displaying or formatting information on the screen.

showColors(columns, filterColor): shows the named colors currently available in Mudlet's color table. These colors are stored in color_table, in table form. The format is color_table.colorName = {r,g,b}.; See Also: bg(), fg(), cecho()

Optional: number of columns to print the color table in. Passed as a number.

Optional: limits the display to only certain colours that contain this word.

-- display as four columns:
showColors(4)

-- show only red colours:
showColors("red")

The output for this is:

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 = Display Functions =
 A collection of functions for displaying or formatting information on the screen.
-==display==
-; display(value)
-: This function will do it's best to show whatever you ask it (a number, string, table, function). This function can be useful for seeing what values does a table have, for example. Note that this doesn't handle recursive references and will loop infinitely at the moment (Mudlet 2.0-test4). If a value is a string, it'll be in single quotes, and if it's a number, it won't be quoted.
-;Example
-<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
--- ask it to display a table
-display({a = "somevalue", 1,2,3})
--- or some other target
-display(target)
-</syntaxhighlight>
 ==showColors==