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MRC: Session stats, mentions, themes, indenting, buffer display, and more

Craig Hendricks requested to merge codefenix/sbbs:mrc-mods-by-codefenix-20241020 into master

mrc-client:

  • A separate set of stats is now shown for displaying local session info, including chatters (count of users in the current room), latency (as calculated by mrc-connector; see below), and mentions. This set of stats is shown by default, with global MRC stats (BBSES, Users, Rooms, and Activity Level) available by using /toggle_stats.

  • Basic mention handling. Messages from others containing the user's alias are highlighted during chat, and the number of times mentioned shows on the status bar.

  • Long chat messages are indented to the width of the time stamp. This is achieved by pre-wrapping the text and inserting spaces after the carriage- returns before passing the msg object to the frame to be displayed.

  • Configurable theme options. User selects a theme by typing /theme . A set of pre-configured theme ini files are included, and the sysop may add or edit them as desired. mrc-client will automatically detect any available theme files matching the pattern "mrc-theme-<theme_name>.ini". The user's selected theme is saved to settings for future sessions.

  • Buffer/MaxBuffer is now shown in the status bar.

  • inputline.max_buffer is now a flat 140, rather than calculated to 140 minus the alias length. This is because the message portion of the message packet is allowed to be 140 characters.

  • PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End all now work in scroll mode.

  • nicklist.transparent property now gets set based on the show_nicks value, in order to get an extra column's worth of width.

  • The user's nicklist preference (toggle_nicks) is saved in settings for future sessions.

  • Added a save_setting function for convenience. Used by both the set_alias and set_theme functions.

mrc-session:

  • mention_count and latency added to state properties.

  • The room_topic session state property now holds the room topic string (previously it wasn't used).

  • Added afk, register, identify, update, and trust commands, so now they can be called directly instead without using /quote.

mrc-connector:

  • Latency is now calculated and passed to mrc-client for display on the status bar. It's the number of milliseconds elapsed between the time the last message was sent and acknowledged by the server.

  • The FROM_SITE constant is now the more descriptive system.name (spaces replaced with underscores) instead of the less descriptive system.qwk_id. This is what gets shown in the /whoon list, as well as whenever a user enters or exits MRC.

  • Stats weren't truly being requested "every 20 seconds" like they're supposed to be. This is fixed.

    (this 20-second frequency is hard-coded in Mystic's multiplexer, but maybe this could/should be configurable in the mrc-connector.ini file.)

Things to consider for future revisions (?):

  • Let user review history of mentions with option to reset mention counter.
  • Banners display; server periodically sends points of interest, and sysop may opt to display local banners.
  • Make the top bar 2 rows high; the added row could be used by themes and/or the aforementioned banner display.
  • Twit filter.
  • Let user change text color using left/right arrows.

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