Several cosmetic fixes for off-by-one in padding and display issues when resetting lists

art/themes/luciano_blocktronics/theme.hjson

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 					mci: {
 						VM1: {
 							height: 10
-							width: 20
+							width: 71
 							itemFormat: "|00|11{userName:<12}|08: |03{oneliner:<59.59}"
 						}
 						TM2: {
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@
 						VM1: {
 							height: 10
 							itemFormat: "|00|11{userName:<12}|08: |03{oneliner:<59.59}"
+							width: 71
 						}
 						TM2: {
 							focusTextStyle: first lower
@@ -486,7 +487,7 @@
 
 			activityPubFollowingManager: {
 				config: {
-					selectedActorInfoFormat: "|00|15{preferredUsername}\n|02{name}\n{plainTextSummary}"
+					selectedActorInfoFormat: "|00|15{preferredUsername} |08(|02{name}|08)\n|07following|08: {statusIndicator}\n\n|06{plainTextSummary}"
 					statusIndicatorEnabled: "|00|10√"
 					staticIndicatorDisabled: "|00|12X"
 				}
@@ -494,13 +495,13 @@
 					mci: {
 						VM1: {
 							height: 15
-							width: 30
+							width: 35
 							itemFormat: "|00{statusIndicator} |00|03{subject}"
 							focusItemFormat: "|00{statusIndicator} |00|19|15{subject}"
 						}
 						MT2: {
 							height: 15
-							width: 38
+							width: 34
 						}
 						TM3: {
 							focusTextStyle: first upper

core/full_menu_view.js

@@ -254,12 +254,11 @@ function FullMenuView(options) {
 
         if (relativeColumn + renderLength > this.dimens.width) {
             const overflow = this.hasTextOverflow() ? this.textOverflow : '';
-            text =
-                strUtil.renderSubstr(
-                    text,
-                    0,
-                    this.dimens.width - (relativeColumn + overflow.length)
-                ) + overflow;
+
+            text = strUtil.renderTruncate(text, {
+                length: this.dimens.width - (relativeColumn + overflow.length),
+                omission: overflow,
+            });
         }
 
         let padLength = Math.min(item.fixedLength + 1, this.dimens.width);

core/servers/content/web_handlers/nodeinfo2.js

@@ -72,10 +72,12 @@ exports.getModule = class NodeInfo2WebHadnler extends WebHandlerModule {
             },
             //  :TODO: Only list what's enabled
             protocols: ['telnet', 'ssh', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'ws', 'activitypub'],
-            services: {
-                inbound: [],
-                outbound: [''],
-            },
+
+            //  :TODO: what should we really be doing here???
+            // services: {
+            //     inbound: [],
+            //     outbound: [],
+            // },
             openRegistrations: !config.general.closedSystem,
             usage: {
                 users: {

core/string_util.js

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ exports.debugEscapedString = debugEscapedString;
 exports.stringFromNullTermBuffer = stringFromNullTermBuffer;
 exports.stringToNullTermBuffer = stringToNullTermBuffer;
 exports.renderSubstr = renderSubstr;
+exports.renderTruncate = renderTruncate;
 exports.renderStringLength = renderStringLength;
 exports.ansiRenderStringLength = ansiRenderStringLength;
 exports.formatByteSizeAbbr = formatByteSizeAbbr;
@@ -136,13 +137,12 @@ function stylizeString(s, style) {
     return s;
 }
 
-function pad(s, len, padChar, justify, stringSGR, padSGR, useRenderLen) {
+function pad(s, len, padChar, justify, stringSGR, padSGR, useRenderLen = true) {
     len = len || 0;
     padChar = padChar || ' ';
     justify = justify || 'left';
     stringSGR = stringSGR || '';
     padSGR = padSGR || '';
-    useRenderLen = _.isUndefined(useRenderLen) ? true : useRenderLen;
 
     const renderLen = useRenderLen ? renderStringLength(s) : s.length;
     const padLen = len > renderLen ? len - renderLen : 0;
@@ -290,6 +290,29 @@ function renderSubstr(str, start, length) {
     return out;
 }
 
+const DefaultTruncateLen = 30;
+const DefaultTruncateOmission = '...';
+
+function renderTruncate(str, options) {
+    //  shortcut for empty strings
+    if (0 === str.length) {
+        return str;
+    }
+
+    options = options || {};
+    options.length = options.length || DefaultTruncateLen;
+    options.omission = _.isString(options.omission)
+        ? options.omission
+        : DefaultTruncateOmission;
+
+    let out = renderSubstr(str, 0, options.length - options.omission.length);
+    if (out.length < str.length) {
+        out += options.omission;
+    }
+
+    return out;
+}
+
 //
 //  Method to return the "rendered" length taking into account Pipe and ANSI color codes.
 //
@@ -464,7 +487,7 @@ function isAnsiLine(line) {
 //  * Pipe codes
 //  * Extended (CP437) ASCII - https://www.ascii-codes.com/
 //  * Tabs
-//  * Contigous 3+ spaces before the end of the line
+//  * Contiguous 3+ spaces before the end of the line
 //
 function isFormattedLine(line) {
     if (renderStringLength(line) < line.length) {

core/vertical_menu_view.js

@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ function VerticalMenuView(options) {
             sgr = index === self.focusedItemIndex ? self.getFocusSGR() : self.getSGR();
         }
 
-        const renderLength = strUtil.renderStringLength(text);
-        if (renderLength > this.dimens.width) {
-            text = strUtil.renderSubstr(text, 0, this.dimens.width);
-        }
+        text = strUtil.renderTruncate(text, {
+            length: this.dimens.width,
+            omission: this.textOverflow,
+        });
 
         text = `${sgr}${strUtil.pad(
             `${text}${this.styleSGR1}`,
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ function VerticalMenuView(options) {
             this.fillChar,
             this.justify
         )}`;
+
         self.client.term.write(`${ansi.goto(item.row, self.position.col)}${text}`);
         this.setRenderCacheItem(index, text, item.focused);
     };

core/view.js

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ function View(options) {
     this.textStyle = options.textStyle || 'normal';
     this.focusTextStyle = options.focusTextStyle || this.textStyle;
     this.offsetsApplied = false;
+    this.truncateOmission = options.truncateOmission || '';
 
     if (options.id) {
         this.setId(options.id);
@@ -273,6 +274,12 @@ View.prototype.setPropertyValue = function (propName, value) {
                 this.validate = value;
             }
             break;
+
+        case 'truncateOmission':
+            if (_.isString(value)) {
+                this.truncateOmission = value;
+            }
+            break;
     }
 
     if (/styleSGR[0-9]{1,2}/.test(propName)) {

docs/_docs/art/views/vertical_menu_view.md

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Items can be selected on a menu via the cursor keys, Page Up, Page Down, Home, a
 | `fillChar` | Specifies a character to fill extra space in the menu with. Defaults to an empty space |
 | `items` | List of items to show in the menu. See **Items** below.
 | `focusItemFormat` | Sets the format for a focused list entry. See **Entry Formatting** in [MCI](../mci.md) |
+| `truncateOmission` | Sets the omission characters for truncated text if used. Defaults to an empty string. Commonly set to "..." |
 
 
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