message display - ansi screens don't seem to use full screen, text not wrapped

[ecasey]

I've noticed two issues when reading messages

ANSI seems to be displayed in a scrollable box, but any space to the right of the scrollbox is just displayed as black space.

Long text in messages doesn't seem to wrap, so some messages you have to scroll horizontally to read them.

[ecasey]

[awehttam]

The vertical scroll bar was removed in 1.8.5. as was the border around the ANSI/preformatted text. The horizontal / left-right scroll bar remains because the ansi text is treated as pre-formatted text to preserve the original message layout, otherwise the ansi wraps to the next line (particularly on mobile devices) and breaks the authors original layout. The horizontal scroll bar is present to let it scroll on smaller devices.

Take a look on Claude's to see how this is different in 1.8.5 now. Another related fix was changing how "next message swipe" worked - previously scrolling side to side would trigger the next / previous message movement, now it's much tighter.

[ecasey]

checked out claude's . looks better :-) did see a few ansi's like 20 for beer that don't seem to display well now, and a number of text ascii that are not lined up correctly . I don't believe I changed my font so I should have a mono spaced one. will double check.

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[awehttam]

If you have examples of those ads as shown from synchronet I might be able to adjust the ansi viewer. I know 2o for beers' ads generally don't render well. The majority of them look good to me.

[awehttam]

Here's one ad from 2o for beers that renders okay (at least I think it does?)