Hey man,

My inital thoughts on a first run / no documentation / muck around and see what I can break.

1) Easy install.

2) New user process nice and small and quick. I like that.

3) Is there anyway to have talisman stay minimized? ie: everytime I connect it pops
up and covers my terminal.

4) Toolkit while it says it works doesn't seem to. ie:
toolkit password Shawn.Highfield newpassword says "Done" but it's not.

5) On the new message scan, is it designed to just show you the areas and then I go to the area to (L)ist the messages and go that way? Or should it pop up and allow one to read the new messages?


That's it for a first run. Mostly positive for a 0.01 version man! Impressed!


Shawn


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My inital thoughts on a first run / no documentation / muck around and
see what I can break.

Thanks for testing !

3) Is there anyway to have talisman stay minimized? ie: everytime I
connect it pops
up and covers my terminal.

Hmm, I'll have to look into that, I think there is a way. It's not an
issue on linux obviously so I never really had a problem there :)

4) Toolkit while it says it works doesn't seem to. ie:
toolkit password Shawn.Highfield newpassword says "Done" but it's not.

Hmm, that's a problem. I'll look at it also, I never tested it on
windows.

5) On the new message scan, is it designed to just show you the areas and then
I go to the area to (L)ist the messages and go that way? Or should it pop up
and allow one to read the new messages?

At present yeah, I tend to prefer it that way, but will give an option
for others to use a newscan like I had in magicka where it reads new
messages.

That's it for a first run. Mostly positive for a 0.01 version man! Impressed!

Thanks! Appreciate you testing it.

Andrew


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3) Is there anyway to have talisman stay minimized? ie: everytime I connect it pops
up and covers my terminal.

Hmm, I'll have to look into that, I think there is a way. It's not an
issue on linux obviously so I never really had a problem there :)

I just did this a week ago too. Here's the code: https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/commit/d0d012f7424b66f8e16cb4da9a337ebadaa6a02d#diff-f17048ceabb3efe55f7dce6852c3934f9450e29fdb2612bf72fdbb7a0c1fb546R81

It comes down to adding:
si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
si.wShowWindow = SW_MINIMIZE;

-rushfan


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RE: Re: Talisman first launch
BY: Rushfan(21:2/115)

It comes down to adding:
si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
si.wShowWindow = SW_MINIMIZE;

Yep thanks, got it working last night :)

Andrew

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apam wrote to Tiny <=-

Thanks for testing !

You're welcome.

Hmm, I'll have to look into that, I think there is a way. It's not an issue on linux obviously so I never really had a problem there :)

I know. :) Windows can be a pain. I'm sure it can be done as the netfoss
thingie stays put. :)

At present yeah, I tend to prefer it that way, but will give an option
for others to use a newscan like I had in magicka where it reads new messages.

Sounds good.

Shawn

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