Re: Re: dosemu doors in a visible window
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Jul 07 2022 12:22 pm

I see what is: you started inserted raw ANSI escape sequences into your message signature:

Synchronet doesn't attempt to word-wrap messages that contain ANSI escape sequences.

Ah.. When I added the ability to set color/attribute codes to SlyEdit, I also added an option in the SlyEdit configuration file to specify whether to convert the attribute codes to ANSI upon saving (for compatibility with other BBS software and readers). I currently have that turned on. I wonder if it would be better to have that turned off.

I have deleted my signature, and this message should not have any color codes (ANSI or otherwise). Hopefully this message wraps properly.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: dosemu doors in a visible window
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Jul 07 2022 12:22 pm

I see what is: you started inserted raw ANSI escape sequences into your message signature:

Synchronet doesn't attempt to word-wrap messages that contain ANSI escape sequences.

I have configured my SlyEdit to not convert color & attribute codes to ANSI upon saving (so they should be saved as Synchronet attribute codes). With this change, hopefully this message will wrap properly, even with the inclusion of the green attribute.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: dosemu doors in a visible window
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Jul 07 2022 04:39 pm

Re: Re: dosemu doors in a visible window
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Jul 07 2022 03:55 pm

Confirmed: the message displayed nicely (wrapped).

Thanks.

Nightfox

And if you want to use a colors in your message or signature, just save them as Ctrl-A codes. Synchronet's various message networking methods already support stripping or converting Ctrl-A codes (e.g. to ANSI) as necessary to support other (non-Synchronet) systems.
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On 7/17/22 22:22, Digital Man wrote:

Maybe slightly convoluted, how hard would it be to detect if the
message *only* has color codes, and convert back to ctrl-a on
import/post?

I don't understand the question. Ctrl-A *is* a color code. And a
message that contained *only* color codes would most likely just
display as nothing (blank) unless the author was very creative with
non-black background colors and white-space. But why would they?

I mean converting ANSI sequences that only contains color changes to
CTRL-A codes.

Oh, I suppose anything's possible. But why?

So that the "ansi" rules for display can be avoided when it's only color changes... so that the line count can still work.

Also, being able to only send ctrl-a codes to other sync bbses in qwk
nets that don't need the extra ansi as well.
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Re: Re: dosemu doors in a visible window
By: Tracker1 to Digital Man on Sun Jul 24 2022 04:25 pm

On 7/17/22 22:22, Digital Man wrote:

Maybe slightly convoluted, how hard would it be to detect if the
message *only* has color codes, and convert back to ctrl-a on
import/post?

I don't understand the question. Ctrl-A *is* a color code. And a
message that contained *only* color codes would most likely just
display as nothing (blank) unless the author was very creative with
non-black background colors and white-space. But why would they?

I mean converting ANSI sequences that only contains color changes to
CTRL-A codes.

Oh, I suppose anything's possible. But why?

So that the "ansi" rules for display can be avoided when it's only color changes... so that the line count can still work.

Synchronet doesn't parse ANSI escape sequences out of files for display. It just sends them to the remote terminal, generally.

Also, being able to only send ctrl-a codes to other sync bbses in qwk
nets that don't need the extra ansi as well.

Yeah, so just store Ctrl-A codes in the message base to begin with.
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