Subj : Help using gettext.js
To : vela025
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 22 2024 12:06 pm
Re: Help using gettext.js
By: vela025 to Digital Man on Tue Oct 22 2024 12:19 am
> >Okay, did you try a different user and see what happens?
> Yeah it happens to all users.
>
> >call bbs.load_user_text() to re-load the ctrl/text.<lang>.ini file.
> This has definaetly fixed mode 7 not using control codes after an ANSI login
> and ANSI using text.bbc.ini after a Mode 7 login! Thanks!
You're welcome.
> >I still can't can't think of a reason why "ansi" and "ascii" would require
> different language files.
> Some prompts are >40 characters which looks a bit messy when it goes on to a
> seperate line.
Try using the Ctrl-A\ (conditional new-line) sequence to add line breaks where you'd want them for 40 column terminals. You can see a lot of these in the stock ctrl/text.dat file for this reason.
But that's 40 versus 80 colum, not ANSI for ASCII. ASCII terminals are not always 40 columns.
> And some use [ ] which in mode 7 displays as a left and right
> arrow.
Sure, that's an argument for a "BBC" lang file and then a non-BBC lang file. I still don't see why you'd need a separate lang file for ASCII versus ANSI.
> Having each as their own lang is a simple way for me to detect which
> terminal type the client is using so that custom modules can be loaded for
> each terminal type. For example msglist.js now is a script detecting the
> terminal type (via checking the lang setting) and then branches off in to
> msglistbbc.js/msglist.js
Again, that'd be BBC versus non-BBC.
> So now the only issue seems to be that all terminal types for the first
> logon after a change of terminal type between Mode 7 and ANSI causes ANSI to
> scroll at row 13 and *Press any key to continue*. In terms of columns it is
> either adding or taking away 40 columns from the column width for both ANSI
> and Mode 7. Examples of how this manifests itself here:
>
http://beebs.ddns.net/BeeBS/My_Albums/Pages/Term_Dim.html Is there something
> similar to bbs.load_user_text() for terminal row and height?
There's console.screen_rows and screen_columns, both are writable.
There's also console.getdimensions() that will query the terminal (if it's ANSI) and auto-detect the user's screen height and width, but only if one or both are set (by the user) to 0 (auto), and only for ANSI-capable terminals.
--
digital man (rob)
Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #73:
SMB = Synchronet Message Base (e.g. smblib)
Norco, CA WX: 84.2�F, 27.0% humidity, 0 mph WNW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
