Re: how to change the position of Send button

On Jun 9, 2004, at 13:39, David Hajek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there some easy way to change the position of "Send" button when 
> creating
> new message? I find that users has to scroll down the page, because 
> the send
> button is very on the bottom.
>
> I look quickly into the sqwebmail HTML files and could not find it - 
> seems
> like it is hardcoded?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> David
>

If you're willing to recompile... Yes.

(Well... Assuming you define "easy" the way I do, that is.)

In the newmsg.html source you find:

>                 <form method="post" name="msg" action="[#p#]">
>                   [#P#][#W#]</form>

Which (if you look around in sqwebmail.c) leads you to this:

> 		else if (strcmp(kw, "W") == 0)
> 		{
> 			newmsg_init(sqwebmail_folder, cgi("pos"));
> 		}

...and then the end is in sight in my courier-0.45.4.20040419 source, 
around lines 683-694 of 'newmsg.c', inside the newmsg_init function:

> 	printf("<tr><td colspan=\"2\">&nbsp;</td><td>");
> 	printf("<input type=\"submit\" name=\"previewmsg\" value=\"%s\" />",
> 		previewlab);
> 	printf("<input type=\"submit\" name=\"sendmsg\" value=\"%s\" />",
> 		sendlab);
> 	printf("<input type=\"submit\" name=\"savedraft\" value=\"%s\" />",
> 		savedraft);
> #ifdef	ISPELL
> 	printf("<input type=\"submit\" name=\"startspellchk\" value=\"%s\" 
> />",
> 		checkspelling);
> #endif
> 	printf("</td></tr>\n");

Take all of that and put it higher up in the output stream (probably a 
*COPY* of it is a good idea, so users who are already used to scrolling 
aren't confused by it disappearing from the end after your change!) ... 
say around lines 591-595, between the HR tag and the message content:

> 	printf("<tr><td colspan=\"3\"><hr width=\"100%%\" /></td></tr>");
> [-- HERE-PERHAPS --]
> 	printf("<tr><th valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">"
> 	       "<p class=\"new-message-header\">"
> 	       "<span class=\"new-message-header-message\">"
> 	       "%s</span></p></th><td width=\"6\">&nbsp;</td>", messagelab);
>
> 	printf("<td><textarea name=\"message\" cols=\"%d\" rows=\"15\" 
> wrap=\"soft\">",
> 		MYLINESIZE);

... or below the content, but right before the attachments button -- 
where it might still be far enough down the page that you don't need a 
second copy of the buttons, and could just move the code. I.e. Right 
around lines 630-633 -- but again that's in my slightly older 
0.45.4-20040419 build of Courier:

> 	if (draftmessage)	free(draftmessage);
> 	printf("</td></tr>\n");
> [-- HERE-MAYBE --]
> 	printf("<tr><td><p>&nbsp;</p></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td><input 
> type=\"submit\" name=\"doattachments\" value=\"");



Anyway... I have *NOT* tried compiling such a change, but I think those 
are both clean places to insert (or move) the submit buttons in the 
code. -- But keep a copy of 'newmsg.c' in case I'm wrong, or in case 
you screw up the copy-n-paste or something like that. =)

HTH!

-jab