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IRC log for #minetest-dev, 2020-03-27

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Time Nick Message
00:00 kilbith_ nephele: formspec syntax like what? give me examples
00:00 Wuzzy how would formspec_escape magiacally now that a "<" is not starting a tag?
00:00 rubenwardy oh wait
00:00 rubenwardy I misunderstood
00:00 nephele kilbith_, of how formspecs look?
00:00 Wuzzy maybe kilbith_ is right, but this answer is irrelevant
00:00 Wuzzy escaping is not written down in lua_api.txt, therefore it does not exist.
00:00 kilbith_ nephele: yes
00:01 kilbith_ "\" is an universal way of escaping chars
00:01 kilbith_ you don't need the lua_api to teach you
00:01 Wuzzy ...
00:02 nephele \ is C's escape char :)
00:02 Wuzzy well, you guessed. and were lucky. could have been a different char.
00:02 nephele kilbith_, you mean like function[options]function[options]?
00:02 Wuzzy and in HTML, escaping "<" is done with that silly &lt;
00:03 kilbith_ nephele: so you literally want to put formspec-like elements inside hypertext[]?
00:03 nephele I see no need to have a different hypertext context at all
00:04 nephele but if you want one, then yes, formspec like elements
00:04 Wuzzy yes. in other words, nephele want's to open Pandora's cube, releasing our greatest formspec nightmares
00:05 nephele I fail to see how you are trying to build a metaphore to pandoras box, if you don't like the syntax of formspecs maybe you should just change the syntax instead
00:05 Wuzzy ugh. i find syntax discussions to be so boring.
00:06 nephele okay..?
00:06 Wuzzy anyway, hypertext[] seems to work almost perfectly, according to my tests
00:06 Wuzzy I have found one bug
00:06 Wuzzy #9557
00:06 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9557 -- Hypertext: <global> color/hovercolor does not affect <action> links
00:07 Wuzzy what i dislike about hypertext[] is that images expect absolute pixel sizes, instead of relative sizes like literally all other formspec elements
00:07 kilbith_ no it's not possible
00:08 kilbith_ we have gave an example on the initial PR
00:09 Wuzzy hypertext even supports rotating item images. this is really interesting!
00:09 Wuzzy but they only rotate if enabled by client setting
00:09 kilbith_ Wuzzy: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Nf6XfXnSZX/
00:10 kilbith_ that should give you that: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7883281/61224239-842e6000-a71e-11e9-90d6-bef58e92bae2.png
00:10 Wuzzy What is strange is that rotating images made it into hypertext, but item_image[] oddly does not support rotating images.
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00:13 kilbith_ Wuzzy: actioncolor, not hovercolor
00:14 Wuzzy ugh
00:14 Wuzzy another documentation fail then
00:14 kilbith_ seems so
00:15 Wuzzy but weird. why call it actioncolor for <global> when hovercolor works for <style>?
00:15 Wuzzy this looks like an oversight
00:16 kilbith_ did you check that actioncolor works?
00:17 Wuzzy wait, did you tell a falsehood?
00:18 kilbith_ well checked myself, it doesn't
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