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+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+using Avalonia;
+using Avalonia.Controls;
+using Avalonia.Controls.Documents;
+using Avalonia.Media;
+
+namespace Aaru.Tui.Controls;
+
+public partial class SpectreTextBlock : TextBlock
+{
+    // Matches color formats like:
+    // "red on blue", "#ff0000 on blue", "rgb(255,0,0) on blue", etc.
+    private static readonly Regex _colorMarkupRegex = ColorRegex();
+
+    protected override void OnPropertyChanged(AvaloniaPropertyChangedEventArgs change)
+    {
+        base.OnPropertyChanged(change);
+
+        if(change.Property == TextProperty) UpdateMarkup();
+    }
+
+    void UpdateMarkup()
+    {
+        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(Text))
+        {
+            Inlines?.Clear();
+
+            return;
+        }
+
+        var inlines = new InlineCollection();
+
+        List<MarkupTag> markups = ParseMarkups(Text);
+
+        if(markups.Count == 0)
+        {
+            inlines.Add(new Run(Text));
+            Inlines = inlines;
+
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Create a list of tag ranges to exclude from the text
+        var tagRanges = new List<(int start, int end)>();
+
+        foreach(MarkupTag markup in markups)
+        {
+            // Add opening tag range
+            tagRanges.Add((markup.Start, markup.OpenTagEnd));
+
+            // Add closing tag range
+            tagRanges.Add((markup.CloseTagStart, markup.End));
+        }
+
+        // Create breakpoints at all positions (start, end of tags, start and end of text)
+        var breakpoints = new SortedSet<int>
+        {
+            0,
+            Text.Length
+        };
+
+        // Add all tag boundaries as breakpoints
+        foreach((int start, int end) range in tagRanges)
+        {
+            breakpoints.Add(range.start);
+            breakpoints.Add(range.end);
+        }
+
+        var breakpointList = breakpoints.ToList();
+
+        for(var i = 0; i < breakpointList.Count - 1; i++)
+        {
+            int start = breakpointList[i];
+            int end   = breakpointList[i + 1];
+
+            // Skip empty segments
+            if(start == end) continue;
+
+            // Skip this segment if it overlaps with any tag range
+            bool isInsideTag = tagRanges.Any(range => start >= range.start && start < range.end  ||
+                                                      end   > range.start  && end   <= range.end ||
+                                                      start <= range.start && end   >= range.end);
+
+            if(isInsideTag) continue;
+
+            // Find which markup tags apply to this content segment
+            var applicableMarkups = markups.Where(m => m.OpenTagEnd <= start && m.CloseTagStart >= end).ToList();
+
+            var run = new Run(Text.Substring(start, end - start));
+
+            foreach(MarkupTag markup in applicableMarkups)
+            {
+                // This is very simple parsing, possibly more complex legal markup would fail
+                if(markup.Tag.Contains("bold")) run.FontWeight = FontWeight.Bold;
+
+                if(markup.Tag.Contains("italic")) run.FontStyle = FontStyle.Italic;
+
+                if(markup.Tag.Contains("underline")) run.TextDecorations = Avalonia.Media.TextDecorations.Underline;
+
+                if(!_colorMarkupRegex.IsMatch(markup.Tag)) continue;
+
+                Match   match      = _colorMarkupRegex.Match(markup.Tag);
+                string  foreground = match.Groups["fg"].Value;
+                string? background = match.Groups["bg"].Success ? match.Groups["bg"].Value : null;
+
+                // Apply foreground color
+                if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(foreground))
+                {
+                    IBrush? fgBrush                    = ParseColor(foreground);
+                    if(fgBrush != null) run.Foreground = fgBrush;
+                }
+
+                // Apply background color
+                if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(background)) continue;
+
+                IBrush? bgBrush = ParseColor(background);
+
+                if(bgBrush != null) run.Background = bgBrush;
+            }
+
+            inlines.Add(run);
+        }
+
+        Inlines = inlines;
+    }
+
+    static IBrush ParseColor(string color)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            // Handle hex colors like #ff0000
+            if(color.StartsWith("#")) return new SolidColorBrush(Color.Parse(color));
+
+            // Handle rgb(r,g,b) format
+            if(color.StartsWith("rgb(") && color.EndsWith(")"))
+            {
+                string[] values = color.Substring(4, color.Length - 5).Split(',');
+
+                if(values.Length == 3                          &&
+                   byte.TryParse(values[0].Trim(), out byte r) &&
+                   byte.TryParse(values[1].Trim(), out byte g) &&
+                   byte.TryParse(values[2].Trim(), out byte b))
+                    return new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(r, g, b));
+            }
+
+            // Handle named colors like "red", "blue", etc.
+            else
+            {
+                // Not all Spectre colors map correctly, need to do a manual mapping, but the list is huge
+                return new SolidColorBrush(Color.Parse(color));
+            }
+        }
+        catch
+        {
+            // If parsing fails, return null
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    List<MarkupTag> ParseMarkups(string text)
+    {
+        var result   = new List<MarkupTag>();
+        var tagStack = new Stack<(int start, int openTagEnd, string tag)>();
+        var i        = 0;
+
+        while(i < text.Length)
+        {
+            if(text[i] == '[')
+            {
+                int tagStart = i;
+                i++;
+
+                // Check if it's a closing tag [/]
+                if(i < text.Length && text[i] == '/')
+                {
+                    i++;
+
+                    if(i < text.Length && text[i] == ']')
+                    {
+                        // Found [/], close the most recent tag
+                        if(tagStack.Count > 0)
+                        {
+                            (int openStart, int openTagEnd, string tag) = tagStack.Pop();
+                            int closeTagEnd = i + 1; // After the ']' of [/]
+                            result.Add(new MarkupTag(openStart, closeTagEnd, tag, openTagEnd, tagStart));
+                        }
+
+                        i++;
+                    }
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    // Parse opening tag like [red], [bold], etc.
+                    int tagNameStart = i;
+                    while(i < text.Length && text[i] != ']' && text[i] != '[') i++;
+
+                    if(i >= text.Length || text[i] != ']') continue;
+
+                    string tagName = text.Substring(tagNameStart, i - tagNameStart);
+
+                    if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(tagName))
+                    {
+                        int openTagEnd = i + 1; // After the ']'
+                        tagStack.Push((tagStart, openTagEnd, tagName));
+                    }
+
+                    i++;
+                }
+            }
+            else
+                i++;
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    [GeneratedRegex(@"^(?<fg>#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}|rgb\(\d{1,3},\d{1,3},\d{1,3}\)|[a-zA-Z]+)(\s+on\s+(?<bg>#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}|rgb\(\d{1,3},\d{1,3},\d{1,3}\)|[a-zA-Z]+))?$",
+                    RegexOptions.Compiled)]
+    private static partial Regex ColorRegex();
+
+#region Nested type: MarkupTag
+
+    sealed record MarkupTag(int Start, int End, string Tag, int OpenTagEnd, int CloseTagStart);
+
+#endregion
+}
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