Subj : Re: Message Index Listing
To   : Christian Sacks
From : Alexander Grotewohl
Date : Thu Aug 17 2023 10:16 pm

On 18 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...
 
 CS> Thanks for this, I know how to left/right/centre justify text, that's
 CS> not the issue, see my previous screenshots. I just want to make  the
 CS> message list (not the message base list) look nice on a 132x37 or bigger
 CS> terminal.

okay i have a potential solution:

399, 400, and 401 display the text for each line. (seems to be first display, 
selected, and unselected)

you create a .mps file for each: 399.mps, 400.mps, 401.mps

and change each to: (bar being the actual vertical bar)

!399 <bar><ampersand>1 <bar><amp>2 <bar><amp>6 ... whichever of them you use

and inside 399.mps et al you do something like

Begin
  if ACS('X132') then
    // for this one paramstr(3) would be <amp>6 from above
    write(paramstr(1)+' ... '+paramstr(2)+' etc.. ')
  else
    write(...);
end;

and format it how you want with the correct widths.

the other option is to copy your entire prompts file and protect the wide one 
with ACS X132 .. and the other with !X132 or something.

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