Change pause special character behavior (\p) to allow multiplications instead of having to spam it.

Adds a parser to any numbers after a detected \p for pause chat message, matches it upto a given max to be multiplied to a given base const. (The regex will limit this to 1000 regardless, but the const is hard-coded either way.). ordered them according to the pattern in courtroom.h but it would be nicer if they were not separated.

Also skips by the given amount of characters by calculating it via the text pos, so \p20 would skip 4, \p200 would skip 5, etc.

Currently technically silently fails if the user tries doing -1 or \p50000 or so, so it spits out any numbers beyond the initial 4 digits to at least indicate that.

Author: WisoAltred

src/courtroom.cpp

@@ -3506,6 +3506,31 @@ void Courtroom::handle_ic_speaking()
   start_chat_ticking();
 }
 
+struct PauseInfo
+{
+  int multiplier;
+  int digit_count;
+};
+
+
+// returns multiplier and number of digits to skip
+static PauseInfo parse_pause_multiplier(const QString &text, int start_pos)
+{
+
+  // matches upto 999 (and 1000) and also prevents leading zeros
+  static QRegularExpression pause_regex("^([1-9]\\d{0,2}|1000)");
+  QRegularExpressionMatch match = pause_regex.match(text.mid(start_pos));
+  
+  if (match.hasMatch())
+  {
+    int value = match.captured(1).toInt();
+    int length = match.capturedLength(0);
+    return {value, length};
+  }
+  
+  return {1, 0};  // default: multiplier=1, no digits to skip
+}
+
 QString Courtroom::filter_ic_text(QString p_text, bool html, int target_pos, int default_color)
 {
   QString p_text_escaped;
@@ -3723,6 +3748,12 @@ QString Courtroom::filter_ic_text(QString p_text, bool html, int target_pos, int
       if (f_character == "s" || f_character == "f" || f_character == "p") // screenshake/flash/pause
       {
         skip = true;
+        // also skip any following digits
+        if (f_character == "p")
+        {
+          PauseInfo info = parse_pause_multiplier(p_text, check_pos + f_char_bytes);
+          check_pos += info.digit_count;
+        }
       }
 
       parse_escape_seq = false;
@@ -4201,6 +4232,7 @@ void Courtroom::start_chat_ticking()
 
   tick_pos = 0;
   blip_ticker = 0;
+  pause_multiplier = 1;
   text_crawl = Options::getInstance().textCrawlSpeed();
   blip_rate = Options::getInstance().blipRate();
   blank_blip = Options::getInstance().blankBlip();
@@ -4420,6 +4452,9 @@ void Courtroom::chat_tick()
     if (f_character == "p")
     {
       formatting_char = true;
+      PauseInfo info = parse_pause_multiplier(f_message, tick_pos);
+      pause_multiplier = info.multiplier;
+      tick_pos += info.digit_count;
     }
     next_character_is_not_special = false;
   }
@@ -4443,7 +4478,7 @@ void Courtroom::chat_tick()
   {
     if (f_character == "p")
     {
-      chat_tick_timer->start(100); // wait the pause lol
+      chat_tick_timer->start(pause_base_ms * pause_multiplier);
     }
     else
     {

src/courtroom.h

@@ -378,6 +378,8 @@ class Courtroom : public QMainWindow
   int real_tick_pos = 0;
   // used to determine how often blips sound
   int blip_ticker = 0;
+  // pause multiplier for \p{numbers}
+  int pause_multiplier = 1;
   int blip_rate = 2;
   int rainbow_counter = 0;
   bool rainbow_appended = false;
@@ -450,6 +452,11 @@ class Courtroom : public QMainWindow
   // amount by which we multiply the delay when we parse punctuation chars
   const int punctuation_modifier = 3;
 
+  // maximum pause multiplier for \p{numbers} so it does not just pause forever
+  const int pause_multiplier_max = 1000;
+  // base pause duration for a \p with no digits
+  const int pause_base_ms = 100;
+
   // amount of ghost blocks
   int ghost_blocks = 0;