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DDFileLister: When displaying a file description, remove/replace curso

From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 19:57:34 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5640

^A0 through ^A7 - these are color codes (set background color) - not cursor movement codes. ^A8 and ^A9 are not (currently, at least) valid Ctrl-A codes.

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From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 20:01:47 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5641

File descriptions aren't supposed to have cursor movements codes in the first place, so I'm curious how this is happening.

Are we talking about file summary/descriptions, or extended descriptions (e.g. imported from TIC or DIZ) here?

How'd these files get added to the filebase in the first place?

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 21:20:08 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5642

Whoops I meant to be checking for cursor right (128-255, according to the [attributes documentation](https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:ctrl-a_codes)

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 21:24:09 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5643

They're from extended descriptions from a diz. I uploaded them yo my BBS (for testing) using the ;UPLOAD coand. These are a couple examples:

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=avpack23.zip

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=blndr2022b.zip

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 21:24:39 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5643

They're from extended descriptions from a diz. I uploaded them yo my BBS (for testing) using the ;UPLOAD coand. These are a couple examples:

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=avpack23.zip

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=blndr2022b.zip

Nelgin reportrd this; I downloaded these files from his BBS.

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 21:42:57 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5643

They're from extended descriptions from a diz. I uploaded them yo my BBS (for testing) using the ;UPLOAD coand. These are a couple examples:

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=avpack23.zip

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=blndr2022b.zip

Nelgin reportrd this; I downloaded these files from his BBS. I noticed these seem to at least have a / (newline) attribute.

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 15 22:40:18 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5643

They're from extended descriptions from a diz. I uploaded them yo my BBS (for testing) using the ;UPLOAD coand. These are a couple examples:

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=avpack23.zip

http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=uploads_up_other&file=blndr2022b.zip

Nelgin reportrd this; I downloaded these files from his BBS. He says he used addfiles eith the -diz option. I noticed these seem to at least have a / (newline) attribute.

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From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 16 03:19:11 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5644

I imported adpack23.zip into vert and the extended description display fine, at least using the built file lister, in sbbs. I do see there are Ctrl-A codes for cursor-right positioning (which would need to be replaced with spaces, at minimum, for the original art to display correctly) and the conditional-newline sequence (Ctrl-A/) is also required for proper display matching the screen width provided in the SAUCE record of the FILE_ID.ANS file.

I'm not clear why these codes would be problematic for DDFileLister.

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From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 16 08:41:06 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5645

For the record, this is the original image that I showed Nightfox.

![image](/uploads/5a2a3a48a2d83d45086423ac28d1e6e3/image.png){width=1218 height=796}

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 16 09:58:43 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5646

The cursor codes are problematic for DDMsgReader because, when using the scrolling ANSI interface, it writes the extended descriptions to the right of the file list; it doesn't expect the cursor to be moved when writing the description, so that currently is causing issues when displaying the descriptions, as part of the description ends up over the file list. Similar issues happen when viewing file info, where it uses a scrollable window on the screen (using frame.js). I think the best solution would be for DDFileLister to remove these cursor positioning codes so that they aren't a problem when writing the extended descriptions.

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 16 10:13:00 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5647

When viewing information about avpack23.zip, without removing these control characters:
![image](/uploads/29b3a320dcdb1de25fee2ce27527e5e2/image.png)

And if it removes the control characters, it looks better: ![image](/uploads/171cee839ba1be8720e2a4a7ebcdb959/image.png) ![image](/uploads/bd042f17830a08b769708e9078d25a0f/image.png)

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 16 10:51:41 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5650

Another example where the description looks bad when viewing file info without removing/replacing the cursor positioning codes:
![image](/uploads/dfb8d22258149582dce3f8c3e72cc5cc/image.png)

The same when the cursor position codes are removed/replaced: ![image](/uploads/6ecfea63d8ad5207eb6c87c1994e5470/image.png)

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From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 16 11:09:43 2024

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/460#note_5651

avpack23.zip without this fix:

![image](/uploads/de284e36c816897743d63656ecae0ee2/image.png)

avpack23.zip with this fix:

![image](/uploads/94130a1e57e25be01cddf0d91b559728/image.png)

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