The intent is to look for platform-specific facilities for regex
matching, to provide portable MENUCOLORS configuration files.
This is a prototype implementation being committed to see if Windows can
use the POSIX regex implementation provided with the C++11 standard
library. If this works, I will write a harness for POSIX regexes and for
pmatch(), and those can be linked in by platforms as appropriate.
pmatch() should be used only as a very last resort, because it breaks
compatibility between platforms.
-Add a boolean option menucolors to toggle menu color
-Add MENUCOLOR -config file option
TODO:
-Better support for win32
-Support more windowports
-Update Guidebook
-Allow changing menucolor lines in-game
Back in 2000 "Pat Rankin" wrote:
> From a user (in a message which had several unrelated things):
>
> > I think the colour of silver dragon scales / scale mail should not be
> > SILVER (which is not a colour), but HI_SILVER. Of course the colour of
> > silver dragons would have to be adjusted to match this.
>
> I don't normally have access to a color display, so I hadn't noticed
> that silver dragons are CLR_BRIGHT_CYAN. It is pure coincidence
> that material SILVER happens to have the same numeric value as that.
> Is bright cyan intentional, to make them distinguishable from gray
> dragons (since color HI_SILVER is defined to be the same as CLR_GRAY)?
> Or was it done for the monsters just because the corresponding objects
> accidentally had the wrong value? It seems to me that they ought to
> be the same shade of silver (ie, gray) as other silver things, even
> if that makes them look identical to gray dragons.
Using the material value SILVER in the "color"
field was wrong, no matter what the reason. I
suspect it was probably a mistake originally.
This patch does not alter the displayed colour for the
bug-fix release, but does correct the misuse of the
material.
