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In message bodies I replace all "\r"'s with "<br>"'s. They both must place a \r (maybe \n too but I don't check for those) when the text reaches the edge of the textarea to keep the text from overflowing where "modern" browsers handle the word wrap automatically without introducing new return characters.

Just guessing though. I feel like that's a simple hackish way I would do it if I was creating a text area in QB.

Something like: IF cursor.x > textArea.width THEN textArea.text = textArea.text + "\r" cursor.x = textArea.x cursor.y = cursor.y + 1 END IF

*Think they borrowed that code? (nm) - Puckdropper, Wed Apr 13 2022 4:34am
- I'm guessing they both handle line wrapping the same way...- Erik_, Wed Apr 13 2022 6:18pm
- - The software has to create its own wordwrap because - Puckdropper, Tue Apr 19 2022 5:00am
    the system doesn't. Usenet readers used to do that, and if someone set the wrapping to say 85 characters rather than the standard 80 it'd mess up the wrapping.
  - - Makes sense on older stuff. - Erik_, Thu Apr 21 2022 12:56am
      Just interesting it didn't just keep track of where the line breaks were in the string while filling out the form and then remove the auto-generated ones on form submit. I guess that would be extra bloat and overhead though on browsers were every Kb is needed. Did the Usenet readers let text run... more
    - - It depended on your reader - Puckdropper, Fri Apr 22 2022 6:05am
        Some would do exactly that. The one I use, Xnews, does it when I tell it to. You'd have to scroll horizontally to keep reading or if your reader was advanced enough make it rewrap the post. I miss those days where every kB was important. It seemed like it kept things much more focused.
      - Just checked out Xnews. Last update was 2005? - Erik_, Mon Apr 25 2022 1:24am
        is that right? I guess that could make sense, not many Usenet things probably going on these days. One thing I hate with bandwidth being cheap is that everything is a YouTube video these days when it doesn't have to be. Looking up music transcriptions has become bad with this. I just want to see... more
        
        Wow, it was that long ago? - Puckdropper, Wed May 04 2022 5:30am
        I think I've got the latest version? Man, I wish more software was like that! I sure don't miss making sure I'm running the latest version just so I dOn'T mIsS oUt On ThE lAtEsT fEaTuReS. (That I don't use anyway and think the software is better off without. I've only upgraded because it's intern... more
        
        Updates can be a double edged sword sometimes too... - Erik_, Mon May 09 2022 11:34am
        My main computer is getting old.. or is old... I think it's like 7 years old now. Updates are good like you said for patching security things that are internet facing but not all applications need to be auto updated. For example, The IntelliJ IDE I use for Java on my laptop seems to get auto updated... more
        
        Sometimes it's time for a new thing - Puckdropper, Sat May 14 2022 4:31am
        That's when you want to upgrade and update. I'm running Sketchup version 8 because Sketchup Make 2017 is not different in any important way. It seems to still have all the same problems and just takes more resources to use. I'd have upgraded if it really WAS an upgrade (it was free after all), bu... more
        
        Some apps want to restart after the update.. the OS updates. - Erik_, Wed May 18 2022 5:35pm
        seem to require a computer restart when the come. I tend to push them off for longer than IT would probably like due to me usually keeping 5 million things open and it being a pain to have to reopen everything after the update finishes. That's a good point about the text vs video. Usually, I'm ju... more
        
        How hard would it be to do things like restart without - Puckdropper, Tue May 24 2022 4:27am
        disrupting the user's environment? Sometimes I get my 4-5 apps open and a restart just kills things. It also destroys my short term memory of where things were and how they were. Sometimes I don't want to save *yet*, I'm trying something and don't want the clutter on my disk. (How many people ha... more

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