• Custom Menus

    From Mojo@1:103/705 to All on Mon Jun 25 12:03:55 2018
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    Which, Quit, or [1]:

    Is there a way to move over the part where it says Which, Quit, or {1} so ti is lined up with the new menu I made? It looks out of place being off to the side like that and would like to have it moved over if possible.



    Thanks
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Mojo on Mon Jun 25 12:34:20 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to All on Mon Jun 25 2018 12:03 pm

    Is there a way to move over the part where it says Which, Quit, or {1} so ti is lined up with the new menu I made? It looks out of place being off to the side like that and would like to have it moved over if possible.

    There are at least a couple ways I can think of. You could edit your command shell and add spaces in front of the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text so that it lines up with your menu. Or you could edit your menu file and put the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text in the menu file so that it lines up, and edit your command shell to not output that text and just wait for input. You could also perhaps edit your command shell to read your menu file and figure out where the lines start, so that your shell can line up the prompt text automatically.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mojo@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Wed Jun 27 15:21:00 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Nightfox to Mojo on Mon Jun 25 2018 12:34 pm

    There are at least a couple ways I can think of. You could edit your command shell and add spaces in front of the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text so that it lines up with your menu. Or you could edit your menu file and put the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text in the menu file so that it lines up, and edit your command shell to not output that text and just wait for input. You could also perhaps edit your command shell to read your menu file and figure out where the lines start, so that your shell can line up the prompt text automatically.

    I am not seeing in the command shell where any of this would be. Unless I am not looking in the right place for the files to edit. So if you could give me some other idea on where to find this it would be very helpful.


    Thanks
    Mojo

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 13:54:25 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to All on Mon Jun 25 2018 12:03 pm

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    Message Groups: 119 Min Left: Make a Selection:
    Which, Quit, or [1]:

    Is there a way to move over the part where it says Which, Quit, or {1} so ti is lined up with the new menu I made? It looks out of place being off to the side like that and would like to have it moved over if possible.

    Remove the trailing carriage-return/line-feed of your menu file. If the last characters of your menu file are "Selection: ", then the "Which, Quit, or [1]:" prompt should appear on the same line (if it will fit).

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 13:55:20 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to Nightfox on Wed Jun 27 2018 03:21 pm

    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Nightfox to Mojo on Mon Jun 25 2018 12:34 pm

    There are at least a couple ways I can think of. You could edit your command shell and add spaces in front of the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text so that it lines up with your menu. Or you could edit your menu file and put the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text in the menu file so that it lines up, and edit your command shell to not output that text and just wait for input. You could also perhaps edit your command shell to read your menu file and figure out where the lines start, so that your shell can line up the prompt text automatically.

    I am not seeing in the command shell where any of this would be. Unless I am not looking in the right place for the files to edit. So if you could give me some other idea on where to find this it would be very helpful.

    The "Which, Quit, or ..." prompt text is in your ctrl/text.dat file. That said, I don't think modifying that prompt text is the solution.

    digital man

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 14:38:42 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to Nightfox on Wed Jun 27 2018 03:21 pm

    text so that it lines up with your menu. Or you could edit your menu
    file and put the "Which, Quit, or {1}" text in the menu file so that
    it lines up, and edit your command shell to not output that text and
    just wait for input. You could also perhaps edit your command shell
    to read your menu file and figure out where the lines start, so that
    your shell can line up the prompt text automatically.

    I am not seeing in the command shell where any of this would be. Unless I am not looking in the right place for the files to edit. So if you could give me some other idea on where to find this it would be very helpful.

    hmm.. Perhaps that specific prompt text is coming from text.dat. If so, the command shell could be specifically loading that string from text.dat or calling some function that makes use of that text string.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Jun 27 14:40:53 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 2018 01:55 pm

    I am not seeing in the command shell where any of this would be.
    Unless I am not looking in the right place for the files to edit. So
    if you could give me some other idea on where to find this it would be
    very helpful.

    The "Which, Quit, or ..." prompt text is in your ctrl/text.dat file. That said, I don't think modifying that prompt text is the solution.

    Yeah, if that's in text.dat then that probably isn't the best solution.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mojo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Jun 27 21:43:37 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 2018 01:54 pm

    Is there a way to move over the part where it says Which, Quit, or {1}
    so ti is lined up with the new menu I made? It looks out of place
    being off to the side like that and would like to have it moved over
    if possible.

    Remove the trailing carriage-return/line-feed of your menu file. If the last characters of your menu file are "Selection: ", then the "Which, Quit, or [1]:" prompt should appear on the same line (if it will fit).


    I checked and there is no carriage return or line feed at the end of the menu file. Just to make sure I went in and started at the very end of the file and hit the delete several times and it did not make any difference.


    So I am going to figure then this means there is no way to do this and have it be moved over. So I guess I will just go back to not having the menu's centered.


    Thanks for your help Digital Man
    Mojo

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 20:36:49 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to Digital Man on Wed Jun 27 2018 09:43 pm

    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 2018 01:54 pm

    Is there a way to move over the part where it says Which, Quit, or {1}
    so ti is lined up with the new menu I made? It looks out of place
    being off to the side like that and would like to have it moved over
    if possible.

    Remove the trailing carriage-return/line-feed of your menu file. If the last characters of your menu file are "Selection: ", then the "Which, Quit, or [1]:" prompt should appear on the same line (if it will fit).


    I checked and there is no carriage return or line feed at the end of the menu file. Just to make sure I went in and started at the very end of the file and hit the delete several times and it did not make any difference.

    Um, most editors will add a CR/LF at the end of every line, automatically. How did you check? Normally, you would use something like a hex-dump utility.

    Here's an example of a menu file which ends without a CRLF:

    00770: 01 68 01 67 51 75 69 74 - 20 74 6F 20 4D 61 69 6E : .h.gQuit to Main 00780: 20 4D 65 6E 75 0D 0A 01 - 73 0D 0A 01 9A 01 6E 01 : Menu...s.....n. 00790: 68 01 79 57 68 69 63 68 - 3A 01 77 20 : h.yWhich:.w

    You could send the file here so I could have a look-see.

    So I am going to figure then this means there is no way to do this and have it be moved over. So I guess I will just go back to not having the menu's centered.

    Okay. <shrug>

    digital man

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  • From Mojo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thu Jun 28 10:30:58 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 2018 08:36 pm

    Um, most editors will add a CR/LF at the end of every line, automatically. How did you check? Normally, you would use something like a hex-dump utility.


    I made the scrren with thedraw and once I saved it then I opened it with notepad and removed the extra stuff it puts at the end of the file. I will logon your bbs and upload the file to you so you can look at it. The file name is grps-m.asc.


    Thanks
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  • From Android8675@1:103/705 to Mojo on Thu Jun 28 09:09:37 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to Digital Man on Wed Jun 27 2018 09:43 pm

    I checked and there is no carriage return or line feed at the end of the menu file. Just to make sure I went in and started at the very end of the file and hit the delete several times and it did not make any difference.

    Load the file into a good editor like Notepad++ (Google it), there's a toggle that'll show EOL and "all characters", looks like a paragraph symbol (light blue). It'll show any stray spaces and if your lines are terminated with CR/LF (Windows) or just LF (Linux). (You can change EOL by clicking Edit > EOL Conversion)

    So I am going to figure then this means there is no way to do this and have it be moved over. So I guess I will just go back to not having the menu's centered.

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Mojo on Thu Jun 28 12:35:15 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to Digital Man on Thu Jun 28 2018 10:30 am

    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Wed Jun 27 2018 08:36 pm

    Um, most editors will add a CR/LF at the end of every line, automatically. How did you check? Normally, you would use something like a hex-dump utility.


    I made the scrren with thedraw and once I saved it then I opened it with notepad and removed the extra stuff it puts at the end of the file.

    Firstly, if you use the Block-save feature in TheDraw, it won't be "extra stuff" at the end of the file. But the last line will still be CRLF terminated.

    I will
    logon your bbs and upload the file to you so you can look at it. The file name is grps-m.asc.

    Here's the tail end of that file:

    01EC0: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 - 20 20 20 20 20 1B 5B 30 : .[0 01ED0: 6D 0D 0A : m..

    The "0D 0A" is a carriage-return line-feed (CRLF) pair.

    digital man

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  • From Jay Allshire@1:120/302 to Digital Man on Thu Jun 28 20:17:31 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Thu Jun 28 2018 12:35 pm

    Here's the tail end of that file:

    01EC0: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 - 20 20 20 20 20 1B 5B 30 :
    .[0 01ED0: 6D 0D 0A : m..

    The "0D 0A" is a carriage-return line-feed (CRLF) pair.



    Ok, so there is still something in there that I can not see then. What program do I need to get so I can see this and use to remove it with?


    Thanks for your help with this Digital Man
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Jay Allshire on Thu Jun 28 17:29:24 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Jay Allshire to Digital Man on Thu Jun 28 2018 08:17 pm

    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Thu Jun 28 2018 12:35 pm

    Here's the tail end of that file:

    01EC0: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 - 20 20 20 20 20 1B 5B 30 :
    .[0 01ED0: 6D 0D 0A : m..

    The "0D 0A" is a carriage-return line-feed (CRLF) pair.



    Ok, so there is still something in there that I can not see then. What program do I need to get so I can see this and use to remove it with?

    Any hex dump/viewer program should allow to see the 0D and 0A (if they're there).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_dump

    Any hex editor should allow you to remove those 2 bytes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors

    digital man

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  • From Mojo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thu Jun 28 23:09:35 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Jay Allshire on Thu Jun 28 2018 05:29 pm

    Any hex dump/viewer program should allow to see the 0D and 0A (if they're there).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_dump

    Any hex editor should allow you to remove those 2 bytes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors



    Thank you for the links and information Digital Man, I will check all this out and go from there.


    Mojo

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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Jay Allshire on Thu Jun 28 23:56:00 2018
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    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Thu Jun 28 2018 12:35 pm

    Here's the tail end of that file:

    01EC0: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 - 20 20 20 20 20 1B 5B 30 :
    .[0 01ED0: 6D 0D 0A : m..

    The "0D 0A" is a carriage-return line-feed (CRLF) pair.



    Ok, so there is still something in there that I can not see then. What program do I need to get so I can see this and use to remove it with?


    The program WinVI I sent over to you has a Hex editor... under Options..


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  • From Mojo@1:103/705 to Bill McGarrity on Fri Jun 29 10:06:06 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Bill McGarrity to Jay Allshire on Thu Jun 28 2018 11:56 pm

    The program WinVI I sent over to you has a Hex editor... under Options..


    Thanks Bill I will try that first and go from there.


    Mojo

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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Mojo on Fri Jun 29 15:00:15 2018
    Re: Custom Menus
    By: Mojo to Bill McGarrity on Fri Jun 29 2018 10:06:06

    Hiya Jay..

    Re: Custom Menus By: Bill McGarrity to Jay Allshire on Thu Jun 28
    The program WinVI I sent over to you has a Hex editor... under Options..


    Thanks Bill I will try that first and go from there.

    Welcome... :)

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