Manual:Display Functions

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

-- ask it to display a table
display({a = "somevalue", 1,2,3})
-- or some other target
display(target)

showColors

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()

Parameters

• columns:

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

• filterColor:

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

Example

-- display as four columns:
showColors(4)

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

The output for this is: