Subj : Re: How do you edit msg f
To   : All
From : Ragnarok
Date : Wed Oct 22 2025 22:49:18

El 22/10/25 a las 23:09, Mindsurfer (VERT/FUNTOPIA) escribió:
>   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)
> 
yes I used icy tools are very good

For syncdram, you want to use sdl instead of curses. Not is the best 
tool but It work for my

Just clone sbbs repo and build, maybe you must verify that -dev 
libraries are installed on your system.

Saludos!
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