In working on the new WPF-based client, I’ve redone the way I handle ANSI character code processing. Instead of a horrible multi-hundred-line nested if-statement-monster, I’ve created something based on regular expressions that is about 25 lines or so of code. It’s not absolutely perfect, but it’s already better than what we had with the wxWidgets + SDL client (what I call “Client #2”). (FYI: Client #1 was an SDL-only client that used a ridiculously huge amount of CPU and was unworkable in resolutions above 640×480).

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There’s still plenty more work to do on the client.