Subj : Colors and text.ini problems
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jul 10 2024 11:47 am
Re: Colors and text.ini problems
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jul 10 2024 10:19 am
> Re: Colors and text.ini problems
> By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Jul 10 2024 09:37 am
>
> > Subject: Colors and text.ini problems
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> > I'm trying to change colors on some of my prompts. For example, I'm
> > trying to change the "545 LastFewCallersFmt" entry by creating
> > ctrl\text.ini with the line:
>
> > LastFewCallersFmt: "\r\n\1n\1h\1c%-2d \1n\1g%-6u \1b\1h%-25.25s
> > \1m%-25.25s \1n\1m%02u:%02u \1h%-8.8s \1n\1m%3d"
>
> > (this is all on one line, terminated with a Windows CR/LF)
>
>
> > I recycled the servers, but still don't see the new colors reflected when
> > I log in again. Am I missing something?
>
> That text.dat string is used when sbbs writes to the the (legacy)
> data/logon.lst. The colors you see when you login are likely from the
> logonlist.js module, which parses the data/logon.json file and uses the
> [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt value from ctrl/modopts.ini to display the
> eached logged login. This format is different than the text.dat string since
> it supports more login-types.
>
> So in short, set [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt instead. The default
> format can be seen in exec/logonlist.js.
BTW, I went and checked the wiki and this is already documented there:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:logonlist#format
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