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     Re: Re: How do you edit msg files   
     By: Ragnarok to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 15:43:28   
      
    >> Is there a better way? A way to edit Ansi's WYSIWYG with @Codes included?   
      
    Ra> I use syncdraw   
      
   syncdraw started here with an libncurses error. not sure if i want to   
   investigate how to fix that. maybe missing or incompatible library.   
      
   i actually had the opportunity to talk to Mike Krueger today. He has created   
   MysticDraw (1994-96) wich syncdraw initially was based on.   
   He is working on his icy_tools wich consist of Icy_Draw, Icy_View, Icy_Play,   
   Icy_Board and Icy_Term (when he is not distracted by playing games on his   
   beefy gaming PC ;) as he told me).    
      
   Icy_Draw has, beside many other features, a Tag Tool, where you can define a   
   "Tag" that consists of    
      
   - a Preview (wich will be shown as a placeholder in your ansi layout in the   
   editor itself),    
   - the actual Replacement (your @code, @NODE-L1@ for example),   
   - Length (the output length of your @code, how much space it takes in your   
   layout)   
   - Alignment (left, right, center),   
   - Placement ("inLine" or "With GotoXY"),   
   - Role (display Code or Hyperlink)   
   - and a switch for if you want to have the preview visible in your design or   
   not)   
      
   Very nice and since he took the time today and provided a fix for the export   
   to msg feature (wich had a bug or missing feature for exporting the @codes), i   
   can now use Icy_Draw to export a msg file directly from the editor and don't   
   need any further ans2asc converting. (i guess syncdraw can export to msg also)   
      
   So i got my wysiwyg editing including placeholder "Tags" wich hold the actual   
   @codes.   
      
   Thank you Mike for live fixing that msg export feature and building an   
   AppImage!   
   https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools   
   https://discord.gg/c7j2Z3ZN (Icy BBS Tools Discord)   
      
   Mindsurfer   
      
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