Hi

I am in the process of customizing my bbs, and I've added new asc files for the external programs menus.

On vertruan the prompt "Which: " has the cursor next to it. I'd like to do something similar. By default there is no prompt, and the cursor sits at the first column of the row after the asc file. If I add a prompt to the asc file, it does the same thing.

How do I move the cursor up to next to the prompt, or should I be displaying the prompt some other way? I think I could edit the xtrn_sec.js and add a prompt in there, but I'm not sure if that's the best way?

Andrew

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Re: xtrn[_sec,1,2,etc].asc
By: Apam to All on Thu Dec 06 2018 09:42 am

Hi

I am in the process of customizing my bbs, and I've added new asc files for the external programs menus.

On vertruan the prompt "Which: " has the cursor next to it. I'd like to do something similar. By default there is no prompt, and the cursor sits at the first column of the row after the asc file. If I add a prompt to the asc file, it does the same thing.

How do I move the cursor up to next to the prompt, or should I be displaying the prompt some other way? I think I could edit the xtrn_sec.js and add a prompt in there, but I'm not sure if that's the best way?

you can use cursor positioning codes in your prompt or the xtrn file
there's ansi codes and ctrl+a synchronet codes
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Re: xtrn[_sec,1,2,etc].asc
By: Apam to All on Thu Dec 06 2018 09:42 am

Hi

I am in the process of customizing my bbs, and I've added new asc files

for
the external programs menus.

On vertruan the prompt "Which: " has the cursor next to it. I'd like to

do
something similar. By default there is no prompt, and the cursor sits at the first column of the row after the asc file. If I add a prompt to the asc file, it does the same thing.

How do I move the cursor up to next to the prompt, or should I be

displaying
the prompt some other way? I think I could edit the xtrn_sec.js and add a prompt in there, but I'm not sure if that's the best way?

The best method is to just terminate the file where you want the prompt to be. You can do this using any editor which supports that (e.g. Block-Save in TheDraw) or just add the @eof@ code there.

digital man

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Re: xtrn[_sec,1,2,etc].asc
By: Digital Man to Apam on Thu Dec 06 2018 01:00 am

The best method is to just terminate the file where you want the prompt to be. You can do this using any editor which supports that (e.g. Block-Save in TheDraw) or just add the @eof@ code there.

Thanks, the @EOF@ code did the trick.

Andrew

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