[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: # $Id: FormMail.pl,v 2.20 2002/11/21 06:39:42 nickjc Exp $

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

Anthony,

Thanks for your email. I've forwarded it to the developers' mailing list
so that someone can apply your fix to our code.

Dave...

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:05:13PM -0000, Anthony Pringle (apr...@ch...) wrote:
> Hi Dave
> 
> I've been using your FormMail script for some time, yesterday I
> downloaded and installed the latest version. I also enabled the
> $wrap_text = 1 and $wrap_style = 1 to indent my messages.
> 
> I found that the script indented the message by the length of the
> "field name" but wasn't adding the extra two characters to make the
> line-up complete. Not knowing anything about Perl, I studied a couple
> of online tutorials - made an inspired guess - then modified a line in
> your code from
> 
> $subs_indent = ' ' x length($field_name);
> 
> to
> 
> $subs_indent = ' ' x (length($field_name) + 2);
> 
> Now it seems to work properly and I feel extraordinarily pleased with
> myself :-), so I thought I'd let you know.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Anthony Pringle
> 
> 
> $wrap_style         - If $wrap_text is set to 1 then if this is set to
> 1 then
>                       the text will be wrapped in such a way that the
> left
>                       margin of the text is lined up with the
> beginning of the
>                       text after the description of the field - that
> is to
>                       say it is indented by the length of the field
> name
>                       plus 2.  If it is set to 2 then the subsequent
> lines
>                       of the text will not be indented at all and will
> be
>                       flush with the start of the lines.  The choice
> of style
>                       is really a matter of taste although you might
> find
>                       that style 1 does not work particularly well if
> your
>                       e-mail client uses a proportional font where the
> spaces
>                       of the indent might be smaller than the
> characters in
>                       the field name.
> 

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