Im trying to develop a custom theme that will work in 40 column mode so it looks decent on c64s etc. I have created a theme and set the width to 40
column and the client terminal is detected that correctly.

I have found where you can set the number of columns used to display a menu
but even though I reduce to 2 columns, each column width is set assuming an
80 column display so wrap badly.

Where/how can I format the width of each column used for menus? I assumed it would be a prompt but cannot identify it or find anything on the wiki.

Thanks as always.

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On 16 Aug 2019 at 03:38a, toddbert pondered and said...

Where/how can I format the width of each column used for menus? I
assumed it would be a prompt but cannot identify it or find anything on the wiki.

Not sure, but having a dig about in my pile of docs to see what I can find..

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Im trying to develop a custom theme that will work in 40 column mode so
it looks decent on c64s etc. I have created a theme and set the width to 40 column and the client terminal is detected that correctly.

I have found where you can set the number of columns used to display a menu but even though I reduce to 2 columns, each column width is set assuming an 80 column display so wrap badly.

what I do, is use 1 column, then put 2 or 3 commands on each line

such as
Display Text (M)essage Menu (F)iles (D)oors
Hot Key M
Display Type Access
Command Go message
then in next command, display type hidden,
Hot Key F
Command Go files
Display Type Hidden

you get the idea

the one area I have not been able to get to work well is the message reading, no way that I can see to get the messages to re-format to 40cols

40 columns not just for older puters but also tablets and phones

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Hi,

On 16 Aug 2019, toddbert said the following...

I have found where you can set the number of columns used to display a menu but even though I reduce to 2 columns, each column width is set assuming an 80 column display so wrap badly.

I've run into this problem as well. My solution is to make an ASCII file for each menu and reference that in "Display File" line of the menu settings (select a menu, but don't go into any command definitions, then "/" then "S"
to get into the menu settings). I believe that if the "Display File" option
is set and the referenced file exists (in {themedir}/text), then auto-generation of the menu will be suppressed. When you create the ASCII
file and then save it, you might need to set the Line Length to 40 in the
Save dialog.

Jeff.

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On 16 Aug 2019, toddbert said the following...

Me Again.

Im trying to develop a custom theme that will work in 40 column mode so
it looks decent on c64s etc. I have created a theme and set the width to 40 column and the client terminal is detected that correctly.

I have found where you can set the number of columns used to display a menu but even though I reduce to 2 columns, each column width is set assuming an 80 column display so wrap badly.

Where/how can I format the width of each column used for menus? I
assumed it would be a prompt but cannot identify it or find anything on the wiki.

Not sure how to do it to make it 40 column but you can create ANSI screens to replace the built in menu's. I have created a theme which mimics the Image
BBS for the C64 (blatant pitch now I am one of the 2 programmers doing the
3.0 update for Image BBS) What I did with my menus for that theme was set
them up in a Pseudo 40 column mode, in other words you start the menu at
column 2 then after you enter what you want it to say jump to column 41 and start again with the next command. SO 80 column users will see the menus in
80 columns, and 40 column users will see it in 40 columns... I have been
doing that trick since the 80's.. I would release the theme to the public but
I haven't finished it. I started it 4 months ago and have only the Message bases left but have been to lazy to finish it.. If you want to see it in
action you can log on my board and choose Image BBS theme on login...
Actually, now that I think about it I didn't finish the New User application either..

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