I'm trying to change colors on some of my prompts. For example, I'm trying to change the "545 LastFewCallersFmt" entry by creating ctrl\text.ini with the line:

LastFewCallersFmt: "\r\n\1n\1h\1c%-2d \1n\1g%-6u \1b\1h%-25.25s \1m%-25.25s \1n\1m%02u:%02u \1h%-8.8s \1n\1m%3d"

(this is all on one line, terminated with a Windows CR/LF)


I recycled the servers, but still don't see the new colors reflected when I log in again. Am I missing something?

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Re: Colors and text.ini problems
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Jul 10 2024 09:37 am

Subject: Colors and text.ini problems
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I'm trying to change colors on some of my prompts. For example, I'm trying to change the "545 LastFewCallersFmt" entry by creating ctrl\text.ini with the line:

LastFewCallersFmt: "\r\n\1n\1h\1c%-2d \1n\1g%-6u \1b\1h%-25.25s \1m%-25.25s \1n\1m%02u:%02u \1h%-8.8s \1n\1m%3d"

(this is all on one line, terminated with a Windows CR/LF)

I recycled the servers, but still don't see the new colors reflected when I log in again. Am I missing something?

That text.dat string is used when sbbs writes to the the (legacy) data/logon.lst. The colors you see when you login are likely from the logonlist.js module, which parses the data/logon.json file and uses the [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt value from ctrl/modopts.ini to display the eached logged login. This format is different than the text.dat string since it supports more login-types.

So in short, set [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt instead. The default format can be seen in exec/logonlist.js.
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Re: Colors and text.ini problems
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jul 10 2024 10:19 am

Re: Colors and text.ini problems
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Jul 10 2024 09:37 am

Subject: Colors and text.ini problems
@MSGID: <668EB8AC.68131.dove.sync@realitycheckbbs.org>
@TZ: c1e0

I'm trying to change colors on some of my prompts. For example, I'm trying to change the "545 LastFewCallersFmt" entry by creating ctrl\text.ini with the line:

LastFewCallersFmt: "\r\n\1n\1h\1c%-2d \1n\1g%-6u \1b\1h%-25.25s \1m%-25.25s \1n\1m%02u:%02u \1h%-8.8s \1n\1m%3d"

(this is all on one line, terminated with a Windows CR/LF)

I recycled the servers, but still don't see the new colors reflected when I log in again. Am I missing something?

That text.dat string is used when sbbs writes to the the (legacy) data/logon.lst. The colors you see when you login are likely from the logonlist.js module, which parses the data/logon.json file and uses the [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt value from ctrl/modopts.ini to display the eached logged login. This format is different than the text.dat string since it supports more login-types.

So in short, set [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt instead. The default format can be seen in exec/logonlist.js.

BTW, I went and checked the wiki and this is already documented there: https://wiki.synchro.net/module:logonlist#format
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Re: Colors and text.ini problems
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jul 10 2024 10:19 am

So in short, set [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt instead. The default forma can be seen in exec/logonlist.js.

That worked - I need to work on the format for modopts.ini, but in the meantime I changed logonlist.js directly and put it in the mods directory. Thanks!
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