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Hi all, i am wracking my brain, trying to find where in the menu system the settings are for the ANSI text file that scrolls by when you log out... i looked in the "goodbye" menu but nothing in there gives any comands or configs for modifying its behaviour. i am trying to replace
the file with a different ANSI file, but tried to rename it the same
name.
Hi all, i am wracking my brain, trying to find where in the menu system the settings are for the ANSI text file that scrolls by when you log out... i looked in the "goodbye" menu but nothing in there gives any comands or configs for modifying its behaviour. i am trying to replace
the file with a different ANSI file, but tried to rename it the same
name.
/mystic/themes/default/text/logoff.ans
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/01 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org:23 (21:1/145)
Hi, i actually was able to figure it out - partialy. at the top of the file, i typed into the ans file itself "" and it seems to have gotten
pass the error pause message, but now it is scrolling by super fast. is there a display command that will slow it down? i tried looking in the documented display codes but was not able to find anything right off the
bat. also i noticed something. the graphic i am replacing it with, was edited together with Mobeous. however all the colors were wrong. however when i brought the ans files into a windows VM and saved them with out
the sause info, it began showing the correct colors again. it seems like Mobeous has a hard time saving metadata to the file, in a language which mystic understands.
On 06 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...
Hi, i actually was able to figure it out - partialy. at the top of th file, i typed into the ans file itself "" and it seems to have gotten pass the error pause message, but now it is scrolling by super fast. there a display command that will slow it down? i tried looking in th documented display codes but was not able to find anything right off
There are controls but they depend on how you are displaying things.
In general things like the GD Display a file command have a baudrate & pause controls:
+ New options for the GD "Display a file" menu command. The old
optional data where just the filename is supplied continues to work, but now if the first character is @ it will expect a few options in the following format:
Format #1: filename
Format #2: @baudrate@true/false/end@filename
The @baudrate field specifies the baud rate to display the file.
The second field defines how file pauses should work. If set to TRUE
the file will pause. If set to false it will not pause. If set to
END then it will only pause after displaying the file.
The final @filename is just the same as the format #1
For example:
@38400@end@bogacid1.ans
The above would display JEDs 250kb ANSImation at 38400 baud, with no
pauses except for one at the end.
The gallery (GA) command also does this as do some others.
bat. also i noticed something. the graphic i am replacing it with, wa edited together with Mobeous. however all the colors were wrong. howe when i brought the ans files into a windows VM and saved them with ou the sause info, it began showing the correct colors again. it seems l Mobeous has a hard time saving metadata to the file, in a language wh mystic understands.
Maybe it's using iCE colors? There are MCI pipe codes to turn iCE on and off: first most of us use ! instead of the pipe code || as that code modifies what is being shown. In ANSIs !CY turns on iCE colors !CN turns off iCE colors. Just like !CL will clear the screen at the start of an ANSI or !14 will turn text bright yellow.
There are also ways to pause big files with a pipe code: !PA for pause will put a pause prompt where it's added to an ANSI (best at start of line).
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/01 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org:23 (21:1/145)
/mystic/themes/default/text/logoff.ans
Hi, i actually was able to figure it out - partialy. at the top of the file, i typed into the ans file itself "" and it seems to have gotten
pass the error pause message, but now it is scrolling by super fast. is there a display command that will slow it down? i tried looking in the documented display codes but was not able to find anything right off the bat. also i noticed something. the graphic i am replacing it with, was edited together with Mobeous. however all the colors were wrong. however when i brought the ans files into a windows VM and saved them with out
the sause info, it began showing the correct colors again. it seems like Mobeous has a hard time saving metadata to the file, in a language which mystic understands.
aside from that i am in the process of refactoring the menus and have
been farely successful so far. teh only issue i am running into is the menu printing out underneight the ans graphics. so i am going to have to go back in later and fix those. however i am getting closer step by step to haveing a full customized theme for my BBS. Once i am done with that,
i am going to create a few simple template themes for every one, and
will be using them for writing the documentation on how to customize the theme. if i have enought energy / time, i might even do some videos of
me creating them. i figured that way it would help noobs to customize their own BBS and not be so intemidated by the process.
This is another suggestion, that might be a little off-topic but has
been really helpful to me. I like to throw a stock Mystic install in
some /other directory. This is just a bone-stock Mystic install and for
me is used because... I edit the HECK out of my Mystic install, and
after so much prompt editing and file editing sometimes I can't find the 'original' prompt or ANSI file, because I have changed so many things.
So having a stock install in /mystic2 or wherever is helpful, so that I can go over to a completely stock install.
Might be helpful if you continue to edit the heck out of your BBS. :P
Hope the baud rate codes help; you just add them to the top of your ANSI file, or... sometimes you can enter like @19200 on the end of a menu command that accepts those type of parameters; like in an ANSI gallery viewer or when displaying a file.
Wow awesome thanks! i will experiment around with it to see what i can come up with. Right now i am trying to troubleshoot an issue on my DEV system. the main menu, shows the ANSI, and a prompt at the bottom but
no menu choices. have been looking all over in Editors / Menu /Theme-prompt editors and ANSI editors trying to figure out what i
changed that messed it up. i can press M and it takes me to a the
message sub-menu. but when i go back it just shows the same thing. when
i look at the settings for the main menu, it shows standard prompt, and User Defined like it does in the default... so i am trying to figure out where else a setting would be hidden...
another problem i am experincing on my prod system is, after modified
the messages number area, when ever it lists the messages it pauses and gives the [y], [n], [continue], message and the screen will only
populate the messages once i type in one of those. i dont suppose there
is something that can get around that diplay code wise is there?
oh by the way, i am saving all the echos of the advice i am getting on this and am going to use if for my documentation, i was going to give credit to y'all for helping me with this. I eventually would like to do
a short video series on this for everyone.
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