* EleBBS Support List

To make things easier on the user, I wrote several scripts and menus to do
the following in as un-confusing a manner as possible:

If you're checking messages:
Group changer displays.  Upon selection, area changer displays.  Upon
selection, my message reader is called next.  If you exit the message
reader, it goes back to the area changer, then back to the group changer,
then back to the main menu.  Escape always backs out a step.

Files work similarly, but I don't have a files door since none handle lfns.
I did add the Filename and Keyword search into the changers with their own
(similar) ansis and character placement inside a field in the ansi.

I've replaced a lot of the prompts with ANSIs and character placement, but I
still have a long way to go.

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shurato Hidega [mailto:shurato{at}shurato.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:15 PM
>> To: elebbs{at}thebbs.org
>> Subject: RE: EleBBS: file listings...
>>
>>
>> * EleBBS Support List
>>
>> Sorry for not providing an example.  Some of the filnames are
>> greater than
>> 80 characters, but mostly it's the date and size added to it.  I
>> can add a
>> pipe and space them so that they look alright.  Using shorter
>> filenames is
>> possible, but I'd have to go through a lot of files to shorten them
>> (probably about a thousand including the music videos).  Mostly,
>> the names
>> are really descriptive, with the fansub group, the filename (usually in
>> romaji and as long as they need to be to give the name of the show) and a
>> checksum.  I can probably live with the few with long file
>> names, I'll just
>> prepare for the ones with the date and size to be on a seperate
>> line below
>> and to the right (mostly) of the filename.  Thanks for the
>> suggestion, and
>> yes adding /T to the keyword and filename listing works just
>> great.  I still
>> have the majority of the language prompts to turn into ansis,
>> but I've got
>> most of the ones that I use doing so.
>>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Mike Ehlert [mailto:mike{at}pcmicro.com]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:49 PM
>> >> To: elebbs{at}thebbs.org
>> >> Subject: Re: EleBBS: file listings...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> * EleBBS Support List
>> >>
>> >> Hi Marty,
>> >>
>> >> > The filename with the size and date after it.  I
don't really use
>> >> > descriptions.
>> >>
>> >> EleBBS assumes that the filename (and date/size/new indicator) will
>> >> all fit on one line. Are your filenames so long that its causing
>> >> it to wrap
>> >> a second line?  An example would have been helpful.
>> >>
>> >> Assuming that's whats occuring, my only suggestion would be to
>> >> force a C/R immediatly after the filename by using a pipe character
>> >> in the list format.   This trick is sucessful at allowing the
>> description
>> >> to start at a seperate line so it might also work in your
situation.
>> >>
>> >> If your filenames themselfs are causing the wrap, and its not the
>> >> addition of the date/size/new stuff then the only solution would be
>> >> to use shorter filenames.
>> >>
>> >> Did adding the /T to your optdata fields fix your searchs?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,  Mike

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