Msg: Re: Border padding is now supported in vDos-lfn

I want to add that the padding setting does not only apply to text-mode window mode, but it applies to full-screen mode as well. In the latest vDos-lfn build (build 2016.09.04), even if you set the padding space to be 0, if you specify a padding color rather than black, then the color will show up in the surrounding in full-screen mode (there is generally room for the surrounding in full-screen mode). So basically you can use this directive to set the surrounding color in full-screen mode as well, not just the border padding in the window mode.

Wengier

On Saturday, September 3, 2016 4:18 PM, Wengier Wu wrote:

Hi Harry,

The concept of border (or edge) padding is different from left margins. Unlike left margins, I think border padding goes in all directions by definition. It is optional of course and it's disabled by default in vDos-lfn, but if enabled the border padding is used to differentiate between the contents inside the window and contents outside the window *as a whole*. It can be used alone or in addition to left margins as well.

Wengier

> On Sep 3, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Harry Binswanger mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Wengier,
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> Since the misty regions of the 1980s, I have set my LM (left margin) to be 2, to give that padding. The padding you've added to vDos-lfn goes in all directions, putting a particularly disconcerting padding at the top, and using up (I assume) space at the right.
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> An advantage of LM 2 is that it makes it visually clear when one is in eXPanded mode, because that eliminates any LM.
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> Regards,
> Harry
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>> Hi all,
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>> Per request by Robert J. Sawyer, I have further enhanced the border padding feature to add the ability to specify a color setting for it in the latest vDos-lfn build (build 2016.09.02). Now the PADDING directive (initially named BORDER) accepts an optional second argument which is the padding color (0-15, default is 0 or black). For example:
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>> PADDING = 50,1
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>> Hope it will be useful.
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>> Wengier
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>> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 7:27 PM, Wengier W mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> In original vDos and earlier versions of vDos-lfn, the first character in each line of the screen starts exactly at the window border, and apparently there are people who dislike this. So I just added the feature to set border or edge padding in the text-mode vDos-lfn window in the latest build of vDos-lfn (i.e. build 2016.09.01). Now you can change the border padding via the BORDER directive in config.txt, e.g. BORDER=20. Hope this will be useful.
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>> As always, the download address for the latest ZIP package of the 2015.11.01 branch of vDos-lfn is at the URL:
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>> http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/old/vdos-lfn-201511.zip http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/old/vdos-lfn-201511.zip
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>> Wengier
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