DD Msg Area Chooser should now be faster when finding the timestamp of the latest readable message header

See merge request !349

Eric Oulashin authored 1 year ago and Rob Swindell committed 1 year ago

DD Msg Area Chooser should now be faster when finding the timestamp of the latest readable message header

In attempt to address the "Error 11" (EAGAIN) error theat Nelgin sees when
configuring some longer modem init strings on Linux.

This is just a single retry (after a yield) after any modem command char
send failure (for any reason), including the terminating carriage-return.

See issue #662 to details.

dd_lightbar_menu.js: Fix for substrWithAttrCodes(): If the given length is 0, then just return an empty string

See merge request !348

Eric Oulashin authored 1 year ago and Rob Swindell committed 1 year ago

dd_lightbar_menu.js: Fix for substrWithAttrCodes(): If the given length is 0, then just return an empty string

DDMsgReader: Updated permission functions (speed improvement)

See merge request !347

DD Msg Reader: Permission check optimizations

See merge request !346

DDMsgReader: Improved new-to-you scan speed (and hopefully overall speed), indexed newscan improvements, etc.

Closes #659

See merge request !345

Eric Oulashin authored 1 year ago and Rob Swindell committed 1 year ago

DDMsgReader: Improved new-to-you scan speed (and hopefully overall speed), indexed newscan improvements, etc.

dd_lightbar_menu.js: Refactored substrWithAttrCodes() to fix issues with it. Added mechanisms to have additional keys for page-up, page-down, first page (HOME), and last page (END), similar to the additional quit keys.

See merge request !343

Eric Oulashin authored 1 year ago and Rob Swindell committed 1 year ago

dd_lightbar_menu.js: Refactored substrWithAttrCodes() to fix issues with it. Added mechanisms to have additional keys for page-up, page-down, first page (HOME), and last page (END), similar to the additional quit keys.

Add a link to the MQTT wiki page

See merge request !339

DDMsgAreaChooser: Fix for name collapsing mode with the lightbar interface: No longer gets stuck in a loop when choosing a sub-board. Should fix #658

Closes #658

See merge request !344

Eric Oulashin authored 1 year ago and Rob Swindell committed 1 year ago

DDMsgAreaChooser: Fix for name collapsing mode with the lightbar interface: No longer gets stuck in a loop when choosing a sub-board. Should fix #658

For waveOutOpen and friend functions

.. so it can be loaded in the same solution as the conio project

to differentiate it from the non-SDL version of the conio property sheet

e.g. src/sbbs3/scfg/scfg.vcxproj

Running SBBSCTRL on Windows 11 with a 4K monitor looked horrible.
The default font sizes varied widely - I'm not sure why this wasn't
apparent before now. And the default font ("MS Sans Serif") is no longer
included in modern Windows versions, so when choosing a Log font, the
pre-selected font was just blank. So change use of "MS Sans Serif"
everywhere to "Microsoft Sans Serif" which appears to have been around since
Win95 and be the preferred alternative. I would consider Segoe, but that
wasn't introduced into Windows until Vista and I'm not sure (yet) what
troubles that might introduce. I'll experiment with a WinXP VM maybe
and find out.

Also:
For log message styles (e.g. colorization) based on log level, don't apply
a different font (Name) or size. This just looks terrible when this is done
and I don't think any sysops want that. Keep each log window using the same
font face (name) and size, just allow the color and style (e.g. bold, italics)
to change based on log severity.

This does increase the confusion with the Properties->Customize->Log Fonts
as the "Change Font" dialog still allows the sysop to select/change a font
face and size, they're just not saved/used. I coudln't find a way to remove
or disable these from the displayed TFontDialog form.

Win32 GDI mode is also native, so let's be more specific.

Apparently this was non-intuitive to sysops. <shrug>

This is version installed with MSVC 2022

to find VsMSBuildCmd.bat

This means you can't use MSVS 2019 with this build.bat any longer.

sbbs_t::mnemonics() now supports @-codes immediately following the tilde
(e.g. ~@Yes@) to use the first character of a dynamically-replaced
(e.g. localized/translated) text string as a command key.
Fixed issue in sbbs_t::mnemonics if multiple @-codes were specified in the
string, but no space characters (just noticed this bug while reviewing).

Created: sbbs_t::expand_atcodes() - used by sbbs_t::mnemonics(), exposed in
JS as bbs.expand_atcodes().

bbs.text and system.text now have properties: each text string ID is the
property name and the text index number (1-based) is the property value -
enabling fast text string lookup without load/require text.js

Constified sbbs_t::atcode() and attrstr() - not too painful

Deprecated YNQP text.dat string in favor of (the first character of)
  "Yes" and "No" text strings and new strings: "Quit", and "PasswordChar"

Other text.dat changes: ListKey->List, AllKey->Unused853
More new text.dat strings: Which, Next, Previous, Language, LANG
Deprecate the "AllKey" text string
Create/use sbbs_t::all_key() - first character of "All" text string

New JS console properties that present common (possibly localized) command
keys: yes_key, no_key, quit_key, all_key, list_key, next_key, prev_key

This could use more cleanup (e.g. instances of "MSGERR:") and in the summary
report there are still mentions of "message" after scanning a file base.

for those that want to use cryptic numbers rather than human-readable names.

There are other ways to generate forced-upper case expanded @-codes, if that's
what you want.

Fewer duplicates in text.dat make localization, translation to other languages
easier.

See issue #648 for details.

The uppercase ON and OFF are being deprecated