dMZX Forums: Disable / Remove / Colorize Space on Message Edge? -> MegaZeux Feature Requests -> Tracker

Edit: This command already exists. I'm a dingus.

Alright, I'm just going to come out and say it. That little unusable, empty, always c0? space on either end of any given "* Text" command is annoying and I want it to go away.

In my specific situation, I'm using one-line messages as kind of a "random message display" on top of a static overlay. The static overlay is dark red. I've made the background of the text dark red as well. But, of course, the overall feeling is kind of tossed out the window when you have all this text with a red background book-ended on either side by a big, black space.

I thought I could be clever and just make my messages 80 characters wide so the spaces would vanish, but no. * Text caps at 76 characters… and still has the spaces on either end. I have not found any way around this, but I'm open to suggestion. Well, so long as it doesn't involve "just writing stuff to the overlay layer". That would require reprogramming what I have to compensate and… I don't want that.
(Though, I'm probably going to end up doing that anyway, thanks to 2.51's "overlay c0?" bug…)

Anyway, that's my dilemma. Hopefully, I'm not the only one who would find this useful.

This post has been edited by Joseph Collins: 22 January 2024 - 12:51 PM

There are commands to toggle those spaces on the message:

To get rid of the spaces:

disable mesg edge

To turn them back on:

enable mesg edge

Does that work for you?

… how did I miss that?! Ack…

It works perfectly! You just saved me so much work, Lachesis. Thank you! />

(S'pose we can, uh, can this request now… Oops.)

Updating status to: Closed - No Change

No problem! I'll go ahead and close this one.