Subj : Re: How do you edit msg f
To   : Ragnarok
From : Mindsurfer
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 02:09:00

  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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