Subj : Stupid Question - Messages
To   : Digital Man
From : DesotoFireflite
Date : Mon Mar 28 2022 17:29:02

  Re: Stupid Question - Messages
  By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Mon Mar 28 2022 12:45 pm

 >> I want to change the color of the displayed message and quote. Is this
 >> a feature of Sync, or is it just a feature of the message reader
 >> (SlyEdit, IceEdit, etc). I just want to change how the user see it on
 >> my system, not how it goes out to the network.

 DM> It's both. A message reader could ignore any color information in the
 DM> message and just display it however it wants to you (colorizing words or
 DM> quotes or whatever). Or the message reader could display the message as
 DM> its stored and any colorizing of the message/quote would be the work of
 DM> the original message author/editor.

Ok, thanks. Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but it does explain why I could not find a simple color switch. <BFG>

 DM> The MsgHdrBodySeparator text.dat string can be used to set a default color
 DM> for message text displayed by the "built-in" message viewer in SBBS.

I figured that one out by mistake, a while back, big mistake at the time. LMFAO, As always, thanks for the assist Rob

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