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|    g00r00 to Tristan Greaves    |
|    Re: Use more terminal real estate?    |
|    17 Feb 22 15:45:36    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48       MSGID: 1:129/215 eb480792       REPLY: 58.fido_mystic@2:250/11 2673e2d2       TZUTC: -0500        TG> Thanks for the update on this. Ideally, what I'm looking for is for the        TG> various screens to be adaptive, e.g. scale to 80x24, 132x36... whatever        TG> the terminal is currently set to. If that's the direction of travel        TG> then that sounds really cool.              Mystic does adapt based on terminal size automatically, but you basically have       to pick certain resolutions that you want to design your UI around and then       Mystic will select the best one to use based on the user's terminal size.              The reason for this is because Mystic is very art-centric in its intentions       and artists need to be able to create static art that they can place around       specific UI contraints (if that makes sense).              You technically could make a fully dynamic setup with some scripting but it       would be some work to do. I do have some changes planned that will kind of       give us the best of both worlds (static art UIs and dynamic) and would       probably make you very happy, but I just don't know when it will be done.              There are also some third-party mods/replacements for reading functions and       file listers that people have done which may or may not do fully dynamic       adjustments without any work on your part (I have not personally tested them).              So like I said you can support larger term sizes, it just takes some work on       the SysOp's part because the default theme kind of sucks right now. And if       you want something 100% dynamic then you need to script for now too. :(              In A47 there are msg_editor* files in the themes\default\text directory that       shows one way of creating templates based on terminal size that are selected       dynamically based on the user's terminal size.              Still plenty of work to be done though in this area...              ... This virus requires Microsoft Windows 3.x              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/02/15 (Windows/64)        * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/5 15/0 18/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/116 120/340       SEEN-BY: 120/616 123/0 10 25 115 131 180 200 755 129/215 305 330 331       SEEN-BY: 135/300 138/146 6502 153/7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 220/90       SEEN-BY: 222/2 226/18 30 227/114 201 229/110 206 307 310 317 400 424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 452 550 664 700 240/1120 5832 250/1 266/512 275/100       SEEN-BY: 275/1000 282/1038 292/854 299/6 300/4 301/1 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/11 200 396/45 460/58 633/280 640/1321 712/848       SEEN-BY: 2320/105 3634/0 12 15 27 50 119 5020/1042       PATH: 129/215 154/10 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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