[MIRROR] Allows admins to pick colours in VV (#4698)

* added colour picking to VV (#58173)

Co-authored-by: Thunder12345 <stewart@ critar.demon.co.uk>

* Allows admins to pick colours in VV

Co-authored-by: Thunder12345 <Thunder12345@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Thunder12345 <stewart@ critar.demon.co.uk>

code/__DEFINES/vv.dm

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #define VV_NUM "Number"
 #define VV_TEXT "Text"
 #define VV_MESSAGE "Mutiline Text"
+#define VV_COLOR "Color"
 #define VV_ICON "Icon"
 #define VV_ATOM_REFERENCE "Atom Reference"
 #define VV_DATUM_REFERENCE "Datum Reference"

code/__HELPERS/sanitize_values.dm

@@ -95,5 +95,4 @@
 
 /// Makes sure the input color is text with a # at the start followed by 6 hexadecimal characters. Examples: "#ff1234", "#A38321", COLOR_GREEN_GRAY
 /proc/sanitize_ooccolor(color)
-	var/static/regex/color_regex = regex(@"^#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$")
-	return findtext(color, color_regex) ? color : GLOB.normal_ooc_colour
+	return findtext(color, GLOB.is_color) ? color : GLOB.normal_ooc_colour

code/_globalvars/regexes.dm

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(is_website, /regex, regex("http|www.|\[a-z0-9_-]+.(com|org|net
 GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(is_email, /regex, regex("\[a-z0-9_-]+@\[a-z0-9_-]+.\[a-z0-9_-]+", "i"))
 GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(is_alphanumeric, /regex, regex("\[a-z0-9]+", "i"))
 GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(is_punctuation, /regex, regex("\[.!?]+", "i"))
+GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(is_color, /regex, regex("^#\[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$"))
 
 //finds text strings recognized as links on discord. Mainly used to stop embedding.
 GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(has_discord_embeddable_links, /regex, regex("(https?://\[^\\s|<\]{2,})"))

code/modules/admin/view_variables/get_variables.dm

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 	else if(istext(var_value))
 		if(findtext(var_value, "\n"))
 			. = VV_MESSAGE
+		else if(findtext(var_value, GLOB.is_color))
+			. = VV_COLOR
 		else
 			. = VV_TEXT
 
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@
 				VV_TEXT,
 				VV_MESSAGE,
 				VV_ICON,
+				VV_COLOR,
 				VV_ATOM_REFERENCE,
 				VV_DATUM_REFERENCE,
 				VV_MOB_REFERENCE,
@@ -269,3 +272,9 @@
 			while(!D)
 			.["type"] = D.type
 			.["value"] = D
+
+		if(VV_COLOR)
+			.["value"] = input("Enter new color:", "Color", current_value) as color|null
+			if(.["value"] == null)
+				.["class"] = null
+				return