Re: Re: How do you edit msg files
By: Ragnarok to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 15:43:28

Is there a better way? A way to edit Ansi's WYSIWYG with @Codes included?

I use syncdraw

syncdraw started here with an libncurses error. not sure if i want to investigate how to fix that. maybe missing or incompatible library.

i actually had the opportunity to talk to Mike Krueger today. He has created MysticDraw (1994-96) wich syncdraw initially was based on.
He is working on his icy_tools wich consist of Icy_Draw, Icy_View, Icy_Play, Icy_Board and Icy_Term (when he is not distracted by playing games on his beefy gaming PC ;) as he told me).

Icy_Draw has, beside many other features, a Tag Tool, where you can define a "Tag" that consists of

- a Preview (wich will be shown as a placeholder in your ansi layout in the editor itself),
- the actual Replacement (your @code, @NODE-L1@ for example),
- Length (the output length of your @code, how much space it takes in your layout)
- Alignment (left, right, center),
- Placement ("inLine" or "With GotoXY"),
- Role (display Code or Hyperlink)
- and a switch for if you want to have the preview visible in your design or not)

Very nice and since he took the time today and provided a fix for the export to msg feature (wich had a bug or missing feature for exporting the @codes), i can now use Icy_Draw to export a msg file directly from the editor and don't need any further ans2asc converting. (i guess syncdraw can export to msg also)

So i got my wysiwyg editing including placeholder "Tags" wich hold the actual @codes.

Thank you Mike for live fixing that msg export feature and building an AppImage!
https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools
https://discord.gg/c7j2Z3ZN (Icy BBS Tools Discord)

Mindsurfer

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El 22/10/25 a las 23:09, Mindsurfer (VERT/FUNTOPIA) escribió:

 Re: Re: How do you edit msg files
 By: Ragnarok to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 15:43:28

Is there a better way? A way to edit Ansi's WYSIWYG with @Codes included?

I use syncdraw

syncdraw started here with an libncurses error. not sure if i want to investigate how to fix that. maybe missing or incompatible library.

i actually had the opportunity to talk to Mike Krueger today. He has
created MysticDraw (1994-96) wich syncdraw initially was based on.
He is working on his icy_tools wich consist of Icy_Draw, Icy_View,
Icy_Play, Icy_Board and Icy_Term (when he is not distracted by playing
games on his beefy gaming PC ;) as he told me).
Icy_Draw has, beside many other features, a Tag Tool, where you can
define a "Tag" that consists of
- a Preview (wich will be shown as a placeholder in your ansi layout in the editor itself), - the actual Replacement (your @code, @NODE-L1@ for example),
- Length (the output length of your @code, how much space it takes in
your layout)
- Alignment (left, right, center),
- Placement ("inLine" or "With GotoXY"),
- Role (display Code or Hyperlink)
- and a switch for if you want to have the preview visible in your
design or not)

Very nice and since he took the time today and provided a fix for the
export to msg feature (wich had a bug or missing feature for exporting
the @codes), i can now use Icy_Draw to export a msg file directly from
the editor and don't need any further ans2asc converting. (i guess
syncdraw can export to msg also)

yes I used icy tools are very good

For syncdram, you want to use sdl instead of curses. Not is the best
tool but It work for my

Just clone sbbs repo and build, maybe you must verify that -dev
libraries are installed on your system.

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Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
By: Mindsurfer to Ragnarok on Thu Oct 23 2025 02:09 am

I use syncdraw

syncdraw started here with an libncurses error. not sure if i want to investigate how to fix that. maybe missing or incompatible library.

Generally it should only start in curses mode if there wasn't the xlib-dev package (or whatever your distro calls it).

SyncDraw uses the same output library as the Synchronet tools like scfg (and SyncTERM), so if SyncDraw isn't working, other Synchronet stuff will break too.

I am curious what the actual error was though.
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Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
By: Ragnarok to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 22:49:18

yes I used icy tools are very good

For syncdram, you want to use sdl instead of curses. Not is the best tool but It work for my

Just clone sbbs repo and build, maybe you must verify that -dev libraries are installed on your system.

yep, the prebuild binaries didn't work, but when i compiled it myself, the resulting syncdraw binary works now!

Mindsurfer

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Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
By: Deuce to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 2025 03:45:50

syncdraw started here with an libncurses error. not sure if i want to
investigate how to fix that. maybe missing or incompatible library.

Generally it should only start in curses mode if there wasn't the xlib-dev package (or whatever your distro calls it).

SyncDraw uses the same output library as the Synchronet tools like scfg (and SyncTERM), so if SyncDraw isn't working, other Synchronet stuff will break too.

I am curious what the actual error was though.

when downloading the syncdraw binaries i got this error

./syncdraw: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but when i cloned the repository and compiled syncdraw from source via make, it just works perfectly fine.

Mindsurfer

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Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
By: Mindsurfer to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 2025 11:25 am

./syncdraw: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ah. Yeah, no two Linux distros are the same. :D

Curious where you download the binaries from... was it the Gitlab pipeline, or the SyncDraw homepage (such as it is)?
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Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
By: Deuce to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 2025 13:27:56

./syncdraw: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ah. Yeah, no two Linux distros are the same. :D

Curious where you download the binaries from... was it the Gitlab pipeline, or the SyncDraw homepage (such as it is)?

i think it was this one
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/syncdraw-linux.tgz

Mindsurfer

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Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
By: Mindsurfer to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 2025 05:43 pm

Curious where you download the binaries from... was it the Gitlab pipeline, or the SyncDraw homepage (such as it is)?

i think it was this one
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/syncdraw-linux.tgz

Cool, I should really update that page and fix the nightly updates... it looks like they may be stale.
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