>> If you can give me any sort of advice how to format >> output so that it stays readable even on regular screens >> like y*80, please do. I can't expect users to have screens >> 400 chars wide to fit some stuff. > > The only one thing I'm asking you is removing unnecessary _trailing_ spaces.
This clears up the issue as I was talking about leading spaces (left padding). > I.e. instead of displaying: > "-o<outname> output file name > " > please simply display: > "-o<outname> output file name" > it will not change the visual form in 80 columns terminal helping all > tools which see hidden difference between space and untouched character > cell in application output and greatly increase readability in terminals > with smaller number of columns. > It happens because MemoLine() returns space padded text, i.e.: Trimming right padding is not a problem and should be fixed, I didn't know MemoLine() would pad lines. > nLines := MLCount( cText, MaxCol() - 7 ) > FOR nLine := 1 TO nLines > IF ! Empty( tmp := MemoLine( cText, MaxCol() - 7, nLine ) ) > ^^^^^^^^ > IF nLine == 1 > OutStd( PadR( "hbmk2:", 7 ) ) > ELSE > OutStd( Space( 7 ) ) > ENDIF > OutStd( tmp + hb_osNewLine() ) > ENDIF > NEXT > > so please simply change: > IF ! Empty( tmp := MemoLine( cText, MaxCol() - 7, nLine ) ) > to: > IF ! Empty( tmp := RTrim( MemoLine( cText, MaxCol() - 7, nLine ) ) ) Okay. > I'm also not a fun of breaking the line to 79 columns especially when > output is redirected because it makes output parsing much harder but I can > leave with it. It would be nice to make: > hbmk2 -info ... | grep "^hbmk2:" > and catch only and _full_ hbmk2 messages but in this it's not important > enough for me to discuss about it. If you have any suggestion how to solve that, pls tell, maybe it's possible to detect redirection and adjust col limit accordingly? > If you can also replace all hb_osNewLine() used in output with some macro > like: > #define OUT_EOL hb_osNewLine() > then later we can easy switch to OS level EOL translation by adding: > hb_osTextOutputMode( .T. ) // or any other name you may suggest How about this: hb_osOutputMode( FD_TEXT ) Or: hb_osOutputTextMode( .T. ) > and changing this macro to: > #define OUT_EOL Chr( 10 ) > what will resolve the stairs effect problem in output from embedded > Harbour compiler. That's okay, I'll change it when the core function is in place. Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
