On 17 Aug 2023, Alexander Grotewohl said the following...

|$R36 <- right justify in a 36-wide line &1
|$L20 <- left justify in a 20 wide line &2

great scott!

left column:
<PIPE>$R36<ampersand>1
<PIPE>$L20<ampersand>2

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On 17 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...

I've looked over msg_index.c132x36.ini again and can't see what to
change (I made the filename msg_index.c132x36.ini so as the wider screen

since both examples there were bodged. i'll retry this:

http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/derp.txt

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On 16 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...

When you run the message index lister and select a message base, you are presented with a list of messages in that base... what is the ini file or prompt number to change how that message list is?

Are you referring to ansimlst.ans?

I have looked in ansimidx.ini and prompts to see if I can find where to make edits, but for the life of me I can't see where to change it. I'm trying to make a 132x37 list so expanding the width of each column or moving a column over a bit. I've managed to do the actual message base list but when you go into a base it's that screen I have trouble finding the file to edit for it's layout.

If the file I mentioned is the one you're looking for, I would guess you would just have to create one called ansimlst.132x36.ans or whatever the proper filenames are for widescreen ansi support in Mystic. My mystic system doesn't seem to have an .ini file for that one, though. So g00r00 may not have converted that one into a template that supports .ini files yet (if I remember right, he had to do each one separately).

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Nick

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On 17 Aug 2023, Alexander Grotewohl said the following...

since both examples there were bodged. i'll retry this:

http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/derp.txt

Thanks for this, I know how to left/right/centre justify text, that's not the issue, see my previous screenshots. I just want to make the message list (not the message base list) look nice on a 132x37 or bigger terminal.

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On 18 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...

Thanks for this, I know how to left/right/centre justify text, that's
not the issue, see my previous screenshots. I just want to make the message list (not the message base list) look nice on a 132x37 or bigger terminal.

okay i have a potential solution:

399, 400, and 401 display the text for each line. (seems to be first display, selected, and unselected)

you create a .mps file for each: 399.mps, 400.mps, 401.mps

and change each to: (bar being the actual vertical bar)

!399 <bar><ampersand>1 <bar><amp>2 <bar><amp>6 ... whichever of them you use

and inside 399.mps et al you do something like

Begin
if ACS('X132') then
// for this one paramstr(3) would be <amp>6 from above
write(paramstr(1)+' ... '+paramstr(2)+' etc.. ')
else
write(...);
end;

and format it how you want with the correct widths.

the other option is to copy your entire prompts file and protect the wide one with ACS X132 .. and the other with !X132 or something.

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On 16 Aug 2023, Nicholas Boel said the following...

Are you referring to ansimlst.ans?

If the file I mentioned is the one you're looking for, I would guess you would just have to create one called ansimlst.132x36.ans or whatever the proper filenames are for widescreen ansi support in Mystic. My mystic system doesn't seem to have an .ini file for that one, though. So g00r00 may not have converted that one into a template that supports .ini files yet (if I remember right, he had to do each one separately).

Hi Nicholas, thanks but no this is the layout for the header/footer and just has a !1 and !2 as a place holder for the message list, I need to edit the template file for the message list itself.

Thanks tho.

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On 17 Aug 2023, Alexander Grotewohl said the following...

okay i have a potential solution:

399, 400, and 401 display the text for each line. (seems to be first display, selected, and unselected)

you create a .mps file for each: 399.mps, 400.mps, 401.mps

and change each to: (bar being the actual vertical bar)

!399 <bar><ampersand>1 <bar><amp>2 <bar><amp>6 ... whichever of them you use

and inside 399.mps et al you do something like

Begin
if ACS('X132') then
// for this one paramstr(3) would be <amp>6 from above
write(paramstr(1)+' ... '+paramstr(2)+' etc.. ')
else
write(...);
end;

and format it how you want with the correct widths.

the other option is to copy your entire prompts file and protect the
wide one with ACS X132 .. and the other with !X132 or something.

Hmm this is an interesting idea, I will give it some thought. Thank you =)

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On 18 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...

Hi Nicholas, thanks but no this is the layout for the header/footer and just has a !1 and !2 as a place holder for the message list, I need to edit the template file for the message list itself.

Not sure if you read my whole message to you, but I stated that it doesn't look like the ansi message lister (ansimlst.ans) has been changed/adapted to support templates yet, like some of the other things - and that I believe g00r00 has to do each one separately, one at a time.

Each of those old layouts had to be redone/recoded in order to support .ini files, or templates. I don't think g00r00 is done with that yet.

Thanks tho.

Your welcome, and good luck.

Regards,
Nick

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