Re: Can I shorten up this or other NG names?
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- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:59:37 +0800
"Vanguard" <vanguard.code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> "AlmostBob" <anonymous1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> because in most windows software versions regardless of manufacturer
>> (eudora
>> does too) the display name is sent to the servers as the newsgroup name
>> however under other operating systems there are two variables assigned to
>> newsgroups, server names and display names, the same as for mail accounts
>> of course the actual variable names in unix and SunOS may not be
>> displayname
>> and servername
>>
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>> "Vanguard" <vanguard.code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> > Not in current versions of Windows.
>>>
>>>
>>> What does Windows have to do with how a program is coded for display a
>>> non-wrapped string within window or frame?
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> The application dictates how it displays strings. Doesn't matter how the
> string was determined. The app that provides an overly short frame in
> which to display the string ends up truncating it. In OE, the user could
> widen the tree pane but that wastes a lot of screen space, so hovering the
> mouse over the truncated name provides the workaround to showing long
> strings without having to resort to line wrapping.
>
> The application decides how to display the string within its own windows,
> not Windows. If you put a long line in Notepad, it also gets truncated
> within the current view which will then use scrollbars to let you slide
> left and right, or you could enable line-wrap, but again the scrollbar and
> line-wrap are how the *application* decides on handling the overly long
> line.
>
> Like Ron mentioned, you could change the view so the pane in which the
> newsgroups title strings are displayed is wider (but it is still possible
> for a newgroup title to exceed the width of the pane, especially if OE is
> not maximized). If you use the leftside folder view, you can widen it at
> the expense of screen space for the header pane and preview pane. You
> could hover the mouse over the newsgroup title to get a popover showing
> the longer string. All of these are still whatever the *application*
> decided to give you to display strings in its display, not by MS Windows.
>
> The OP wanted shorter strings displayed for the newgroup titles. Nothing
> to do with querying the NNTP server. Also, the newsgroup titles are the
> newsgroup names, not the server name. Why would you bring up the server?
> The same newsgroups are handled by lots of NNTP servers, and they have the
> SAME names. Imagine trying to find the same newsgroup on a different NNTP
> server but which foolishly used a different name for the newsgroup. In
> Thunderbird, I believe, it will abbreviate the newsgroup names. For
> example, microsoft.public.outlook.general probably looks like
> m.p.o.general. I don't think it has the popover help of OE to then expand
> the name so you could see what m.p.o stood for. As I recall, I had to
> edit some .css config file to get Thunderbird to knock off the
> auto-abbreviation since it made difficult knowing in which I was in that
> had the same abbreviation. Again, the abbreviation in Thunderbird for the
> newsgroup titles is, well, for the newsgroup titles, not the server name
> which is a totally different entity altogether.
>
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