Re: improving chprintf

If you're using GNU libc, you can extend the printf family of functions
with your own % codes.  That could save you some work by not having
to re-implement the existing *printf functionality.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Customizing-Printf.html


Dennis


On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Michael Barton wrote:

> I was wanting to re-implement vs(n)printf to correctly pad and
> truncate strings with Lope's color codes in them, since lining things
> up can be such a pain.  I thought to get the bsd version and work from
> that, but it's... verbose.  I'm sure it has to be.
>
> I started on my own and, ugly and incomplete though it is, seems to be
> a working start.
>
> I'd also like to include % codes for CHAR_DATA, OBJ_DATA, etc, so I
> can effectively replace act() with chprintf() entirely while I'm at
> it.
>
> Has anyone else tackled this?
>
> --Palrich.
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