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| ====== Message Header ====== | ====== Message Header ====== | ||
| - | When reading messages, you will often want to create a custom header for the message reading, as an asc/ans file, instead of the default message header driven by TEXT.DAT settings. | + | <file> |
| + | ┌────────────────────────···· Synchronet | ||
| + | │ Subj: Word wrapping ▌▀▌▌▀▌▌▀▌ | ||
| + | │ Attr: Replied █▀▌█▀▌▐▄ | ||
| + | │ To : mark lewis █ ▌█ ▌▄ ▌ | ||
| + | │ From: Digital Man #1 ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ | ||
| + | │ Date: Mon Apr 15 2019 03:17 am PDT (23.4 hours ago) software | ||
| + | └───────────────────────────────────────────────······ | ||
| + | </file> | ||
| + | Customizing the message header displayed when users read messages (e.g. posts and mail messages) via the [[server:terminal]] server involves either: | ||
| + | * Modifying the first 9 strings defined in the system's ''[[dir:ctrl]]/[[custom:text.dat]]'' file, or | ||
| + | * Creating/modifying the system's ''[[dir:text]]/menu/msghdr.*'' file | ||
| - | The File should exist in ''./text/menu/MSGHDR.ASC'' you can use the ANS2ASC utility for an initial conversion. You will then want to put the appropriate control codes into the message header. | + | The default behavior for users of terminals with more than 40 columns is to use the hard-coded C/C++ Synchronet logic to display the ''text.dat'' lines which are appropriate for the current message (the order of displayed header fields can not be changed). |
| - | Here are a few codes that I find useful (note the -L### is for padding/trimming the length of an item) | + | Since a 40-column version of the message header file (''msghdr.40col.asc'') exists in a default install (e.g. from Git), that file is displayed rather than the ''text.dat'' lines for users with 40-column terminals. |
| - | * @SMB_GROUP@ | + | |
| - | * @SMB_SUB-L#######@ | + | |
| - | * @SMB_CURMSG@ | + | |
| - | * @SMB_MSGS@ | + | |
| - | * @MSG_DATE-L#########################@ | + | |
| - | * @MSG_ATTR-L#########################@ | + | |
| - | * @MSG_FROM_NAME-L#########################@ | + | |
| - | * @MSG_TO_NAME-L#########################@ | + | |
| - | * @MSG_SUBJECT-L#########################@ | + | |
| - | TODO: Clean this page up. | + | If you chose the ''text.dat'' file route, here are the strings you'll be interested in: |
| + | * MsgSubj | ||
| + | * MsgTags | ||
| + | * MsgAttr | ||
| + | * MsgTo | ||
| + | * MsgToNet | ||
| + | * MsgToExt | ||
| + | * MsgFrom | ||
| + | * MsgFromNet | ||
| + | * MsgFromExt | ||
| + | * MsgDate | ||
| + | * MsgVotes | ||
| + | * MsgHdrBodySeparator | ||
| + | * PollAnswerChecked | ||
| + | * ForwardedFrom | ||
| + | |||
| + | If you chose the ''msghdr.*'' file route, here are some [[custom:atcodes|@-codes]] that you may want to include in the file for dynamic string values: | ||
| + | * SMB_GROUP | ||
| + | * SMB_SUB | ||
| + | * SMB_AREA_DESC | ||
| + | * SMB_CURMSG | ||
| + | * SMB_MSGS | ||
| + | * MSG_DATE | ||
| + | * MSG_TIMEZONE | ||
| + | * MSG_AGE | ||
| + | * MSG_ATTR | ||
| + | * MSG_FROM_NAME | ||
| + | * MSG_TO_NAME | ||
| + | * MSG_SUBJECT | ||
| + | |||
| + | Synchronet comes stock with: | ||
| + | * An example ''msghdr.*'': ''[[https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/text/menu/msghdrexample.asc|msghdrexample.asc]]'' | ||
| + | * A message header to use only for 40-columns terminals: ''[[https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/text/menu/msghdr.40col.asc|msghdr.40col.msg]]'' | ||
| ===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
| * [[:custom:atcodes|@-Codes]] | * [[:custom:atcodes|@-Codes]] | ||
| * [[:custom:ctrl-a_codes|Ctrl-A Codes]] | * [[:custom:ctrl-a_codes|Ctrl-A Codes]] | ||
| + | * [[:custom:menu files]] | ||
| + | * [[:config:text files]] | ||
| * [[:custom:|Customization]] | * [[:custom:|Customization]] | ||
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