Has anyone ever made a custom text viewer for Synchronet with a scrolly interface? Thinking along the lines of something that lets users view text files with an interface similar to DDMessageReader's.

I know there's Bullshit, which lets you define a specific set of text files in modopts. The thing I'd like would be more like a drop-in substitution for the console.printfile() function, or a loadable module that could be used in place of the stock text-dump for viewing files defined in the General Text Files section. Maybe it could have some basic functionality such as CTRL+F to find text strings, etc.

I may try to come up with one, unless one already exists.

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Re: Custom Text File Viewer for SBBS?
By: Codefenix to All on Mon Nov 04 2024 12:58 pm

Has anyone ever made a custom text viewer for Synchronet with a scrolly interface? Thinking along the lines of something that lets users view text files with an interface similar to DDMessageReader's.

echicken's AnsiView (xtrn/ansiview)?
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Re: Custom Text File Viewer for SBBS?
By: Digital Man to Codefenix on Mon Nov 04 2024 12:01 pm

echicken's AnsiView (xtrn/ansiview)?

Nah, that only uses the printfile function to to a straight output of a selected file.

I went ahead and started work on something that does what I want with a scrollbar interface. It takes a filepath as parameter and displays the contents in a frame and lets the user arrow or page up/down through it. It works, but I'm going to keep playing around with it. I can post it in Synchronet Javascript if anyone is interested.

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Re: Custom Text File Viewer for SBBS?
By: Codefenix to Digital Man on Tue Nov 05 2024 10:30 am

Re: Custom Text File Viewer for SBBS?
By: Digital Man to Codefenix on Mon Nov 04 2024 12:01 pm

echicken's AnsiView (xtrn/ansiview)?

Nah, that only uses the printfile function to to a straight output of a selected file.

I went ahead and started work on something that does what I want with a scrollbar interface. It takes a filepath as parameter and displays the contents in a frame and lets the user arrow or page up/down through it. It works, but I'm going to keep playing around with it. I can post it in Synchronet Javascript if anyone is interested.

yeah go ahead and do that. might be useful to someone.
i think the ansiview and bullshit stuff started with me making a request
like you just did.

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Re: Custom Text File Viewer for SBBS?
By: Codefenix to Digital Man on Tue Nov 05 2024 10:30:26

echicken's AnsiView (xtrn/ansiview)?

Nah, that only uses the printfile function to to a straight output of a selected file.

contents in a frame and lets the user arrow or page up/down through it. It

Scrolling is the major flaw in frame.js, which is otherwise a pretty great library that I've done a lot with. It can get *very* slow when scrolling a lot of data. At the time I saw no real benefit over just using your terminal's scrollback, or at least it wasn't worth the trade-off, thus printfile.

I did create an alternative and it is *much* faster than frame.js at everything including scrolling:

https://gitlab.synchro.net/echicken/swindows

The recent rewrite of Bullshit is a fairly complete usage example. I have a couple other personal projects on the Synchronet gitlab server that use it.

The catch is that it's all written in TypeScript and I haven't bothered to publish a JS "build" of it, so you can't use it from plain JS at the moment (though this could be done).

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