Hello Martin!
** On Wednesday 19.01.22 - 13:59, you wrote to me:
AA>> But then why not build it so that it extracts predefined text
AA>> (that is known to fit) in that space?
MF> Yes, why not?
MF> Perhaps you could ask the developer about that.
I thought YOU were the liason-man for OpenXP things.
MF> A better solution would have been to implement something
MF> along the lines of the Glossary feature, whereby all the
MF> user needs to do is to press <Alt+G> from within the
MF> editor and then select an item from the pre-defined list
MF> that pops up. In this case, it would be a list of origin
MF> lines pre-defined by the user in an ascii text file, e.g.
MF> "origins.txt" and the key-press could be <Alt+O>.
Excellent. Did you include that as a tenny tiny detail with
your main suggestion? ;)
Personally, I haven't used Alt-G (Glossary) much at all. It
*does* seem like a handy way to dump pre-defined strings in a
message though.
MF> ..somebody(me) thought it would be nice if they could also
MF> be defined at the single message level..
OK! Too bad you didn't describe how it would "function" (which
key strokes to trigger it, Alt-G as above, or sourcing from a
oring-lines.txt file, etc)
MF> ..and I duly put in a feature request for a *simple*,
MF> *basic* means of doing so. He duly obliged by implementing
MF> exactly what I'd asked for, no more, no less.
Hopefully this is then just the 1st baby-step to make it more
functional - especially to make lock in and stay put once the
text is entered and not overwritten by the global setting if
the message needs to be re-edited.
MF> -+- OpenXP 5.0.51
MF> + Origin: Watch This Space (2:310/31.3)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I just might from now on! <G>
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