What's a mnemonics string?
Re: Stupid Question
By: Ibanez to All on Thu Oct 12 2006 11:03 pm
What's a mnemonics string?
A string that contains a list of commands with their command-key high-lighte in some way. e.g. "[A]bort [S]ave [Q]uit"
Re: Stupid Question
By: Digital Man to Ibanez on Mon Oct 16 2006 06:23 pm
Re: Stupid Question
By: Ibanez to All on Thu Oct 12 2006 11:03 pm
What's a mnemonics string?
A string that contains a list of commands with their command-key high-lig in some way. e.g. "[A]bort [S]ave [Q]uit"
Oh, so I can put ctrl-A codes in there to high-light'em?
Re: Stupid Question
By: Ibanez to Digital Man on Mon Oct 16 2006 10:23 pm
Re: Stupid Question
By: Digital Man to Ibanez on Mon Oct 16 2006 06:23 pm
Re: Stupid Question
By: Ibanez to All on Thu Oct 12 2006 11:03 pm
What's a mnemonics string?
A string that contains a list of commands with their command-key high- in some way. e.g. "[A]bort [S]ave [Q]uit"
Oh, so I can put ctrl-A codes in there to high-light'em?
You can, but the idea of a mneomics string is that the command keys are note with a tilde character (look in the text.dat for examples) and Synchronet *automatically* either colorizes (based on the settings in attr.cfg) for ANS users or puts the char in square-brackets for non-ANSI users.
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