Subj : adhoc origin line feature To : August Abolins From : Martin Foster Date : Mon Jan 24 2022 10:38:00 Hello August! *** Sunday 23.01.22 at 20:19, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster: AA>>> But then why not build it so that it extracts predefined text AA>>> (that is known to fit) in that space? MF>> Yes, why not? MF>> Perhaps you could ask the developer about that. AA> I thought YOU were the liason-man for OpenXP things. Sometimes but not always :) In this instance, I thought it would be better if you were to ask him directly. MF>> A better solution would have been to implement something MF>> along the lines of the Glossary feature, whereby all the MF>> user needs to do is to press from within the MF>> editor and then select an item from the pre-defined list MF>> that pops up. In this case, it would be a list of origin MF>> lines pre-defined by the user in an ascii text file, e.g. MF>> "origins.txt" and the key-press could be . AA> Excellent. Did you include that as a tenny tiny detail with AA> your main suggestion? ;) Nope. AA> Personally, I haven't used Alt-G (Glossary) much at all. It AA> *does* seem like a handy way to dump pre-defined strings in a AA> message though. I use it a fair bit. MF>> ..somebody(me) thought it would be nice if they could also MF>> be defined at the single message level.. AA> OK! Too bad you didn't describe how it would "function" (which AA> key strokes to trigger it, Alt-G as above, or sourcing from a AA> oring-lines.txt file, etc) Yeah well, at the time, I just wanted to keep it simple. MF>> ..and I duly put in a feature request for a *simple*, MF>> *basic* means of doing so. He duly obliged by implementing MF>> exactly what I'd asked for, no more, no less. AA> Hopefully this is then just the 1st baby-step to make it more AA> functional - especially to make lock in and stay put once the AA> text is entered and not overwritten by the global setting if AA> the message needs to be re-edited. Hopefully yes but that will largely depend on what bells 'n whistles users want ;) Regards, Martin --- OpenXP 5.0.51 * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3) .