Greetings...

Using OpenXP for a few months now... Learn something new everytime I use
it. Curious about a couple things... Can it be used for viewing messgaes
with ansi color and if it does, how do I configure it to do so?

The 2nd question... Is there a way to redraw the screen without stopiing
and restarting the app?

Thx,

-km
Salutations from Rochester, NY - (SysOp KnightMare)

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: Point KnightMare, Rochester, NY (1:267/585.1)

Hello Kevin!

*** Thursday 28.05.20 at 22:23, Kevin Miller wrote to All:

Using OpenXP for a few months now... Learn something new
everytime I use it.

I've been using it for 20 years and used its predecessor(CrossPoint)
for 6 years before that and I still occasionally find stuff that I've
never seen before ;-)

Curious about a couple things... Can it be used for viewing
messgaes with ansi color and if it does, how do I configure it to
do so?

The 2nd question... Is there a way to redraw the screen without
stopiing and restarting the app?

Sorry but I can't answer either of your questions, so I've passed them
on to the developer for you. Stay tooooooooned :)

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.43
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

Hello Kevin!

** On Thursday 28.05.20 - 22:23, Kevin Miller wrote to All:

Using OpenXP for a few months now... Learn something new everytime I
use it. Curious about a couple things... Can it be used for viewing messgaes with ansi color and if it does, how do I configure it to do
so?

That would be a nice feature. But I wonder how those color controls might conflict or influence the established rules that I want for standard messages?

The 2nd question... Is there a way to redraw the screen without stopiing and restarting the app?

Why do you need that? ;) Are you getting some tearing issues? <bwg>


../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)

Hello Kevin!

*** Friday 29.05.20 at 11:42, Martin Foster wrote to Kevin Miller:

[snip]

Curious about a couple things... Can it be used for viewing
messgaes with ansi color and if it does, how do I configure it to
do so?

The 2nd question... Is there a way to redraw the screen without
stopiing and restarting the app?

Sorry but I can't answer either of your questions, so I've passed them
on to the developer for you. Stay tooooooooned :)

Here's his reply to your first question .....
---------- 8< ----------
"No, sorry.
Personally, I have never heard of messages with ansi color."
---------- 8< ----------

Here's his reply to your second question .....
---------- 8< ----------
"OpenXP is a commandline software running under Windows or Linux OS.
The OS is responsible for screen redraw if the commandline window
containing the OpenXP session is brought to front."
---------- 8< ----------

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

On 30/05/2020 9:25 a.m., Martin Foster : Kevin Miller wrote:

*** Friday 29.05.20 at 11:42, Martin Foster wrote to Kevin Miller:

[snip]

Curious about a couple things... Can it be used for viewing
messgaes with ansi color and if it does, how do I configure it to
do so?

Here's his reply to your first question .....
---------- 8< ----------
"No, sorry.
Personally, I have never heard of messages with ansi color."
---------- 8< ----------

Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?

--- TB(Stealth)/Win7
* Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)

Hello August,

Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?

Some BBSs support ansi in messages quite well. They all take diffent approaches to adding color, ansi or pipe codes are the most used ways and there are others also.

If your interface doesn't support that it will look terrible. I normally use golded or a like editor to read and reply so I have no support for color in messages.

Ttyl :-),
Al

--- GoldED+/LNX
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

Hello Alan!

** On Tuesday 02.06.20 - 14:40, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:

Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?

Some BBSs support ansi in messages quite well. They all take diffent approaches to adding color, ansi or pipe codes are the most used ways and there are others also.

Oh.. I forgot about pipe codes. Then that would be too much to ask a developer to accomodate all those methods. I mean, it's not unlike Linus Torvald's comment about 80char line limitations that I read somewhere: "People with restrictive hardware shouldn't make it more inconvenient for people who have better resources."

If your interface doesn't support that it will look terrible. I
normally use golded or a like editor to read and reply so I have no support for color in messages.

Yes.. it seems to be intended for reading right on a BBS using its
interface. But I have less restrictive resources! LOL


../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)

Hello August!

*** Tuesday 02.06.20 at 18:14, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]

Curious about a couple things... Can it be used for viewing
messgaes with ansi color and if it does, how do I configure it to
do so?

Here's his reply to your first question .....
---------- 8< ----------
"No, sorry.
Personally, I have never heard of messages with ansi color."
---------- 8< ----------

Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?

No, it was a BBS thing, used here in the UK and no doubt used all over the world. Oh, happy days =8)

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

Hello Martin!

** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 09:43, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

Here's his reply to your first question .....
---------- 8< ----------
"No, sorry.
Personally, I have never heard of messages with ansi color."
---------- 8< ----------

Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?

No, it was a BBS thing, used here in the UK and no doubt used all over
the world. Oh, happy days =8)

:( I guess Crosspoint/OpenXP was focused on pure text comms then, and avoided incorporating BBS-specific eye-candy.

Given how OXP's ">" quoting colour system works, any ansi-color codes
thrown in would probably mess all that up anyway.

It would be cool to have a Thunderbird plugin that could render ansi
colour codes and pipe codes in select message groups though.


../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)