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  • prompts.dat location for custom theme?

    From Alpha@77:1/127 to All on Wed Mar 25 15:41:04 2020
    Ok... I know I must be looking in the wrong place -- but I've created a theme with fallbacks to the default theme files, and then I've modified prompts through the -cfg interface.

    But I need to go in and tweaks some of the ansi, e.g. open up the prompts file using the mystic ansi editor. But I only see prompts.dat in the
    main mystic/data directory (and prompts.bak), and the files appear to contain none of my modifications. And there doesn't appear to be a prompts.dat file in my theme directory... But I know my edits are working -- so they have to be saved somewhere. Question is: where?

    Any help appreciated!

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  • From Alpha@77:1/127 to Alpha on Wed Mar 25 15:44:02 2020
    But I need to go in and tweaks some of the ansi, e.g. open up the
    prompts file using the mystic ansi editor. But I only see prompts.dat in the main mystic/data directory (and prompts.bak), and the files appear
    to contain none of my modifications. And there doesn't appear to be a prompts.dat file in my theme directory... But I know my edits are

    Oi, found the file -- it's in the main theme dir with a .bak extension and contains just the prompt overrides, which is awesome. Makes total sense. My bad.

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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Alpha on Wed Mar 25 21:53:46 2020
    to contain none of my modifications. And there doesn't appear to be a prompts.dat file in my theme directory... But I know my edits are
    working -- so they have to be saved somewhere. Question is: where?

    Your theme's prompts that you've changed from the default are saved in the theme's directory. Do not ever directly edit prompts.dat (or anything in the DATA folder for the most part) as you will end up losing those changes when
    new prompts are added.

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  • From Alpha@77:1/127 to g00r00 on Thu Mar 26 16:30:12 2020
    Your theme's prompts that you've changed from the default are saved in
    the theme's directory. Do not ever directly edit prompts.dat (or
    anything in the DATA folder for the most part) as you will end up losing those changes when new prompts are added.

    Thank you. Are there any potential problems with editing/saving the theme's modified prompt file in mystic's ansi editor?

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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Alpha on Thu Mar 26 18:02:14 2020
    Thank you. Are there any potential problems with editing/saving the theme's modified prompt file in mystic's ansi editor?

    Yes because its not an ANSI file. If you want to edit it in a text editor you can use a text editor, Mystic's text editor, or you can use Mystic's prompt editor (which will eventually open a prompt in the ANSI editor).

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  • From Alpha@77:1/127 to g00r00 on Fri Mar 27 00:00:58 2020
    Yes because its not an ANSI file. If you want to edit it in a text
    editor you can use a text editor, Mystic's text editor, or you can use Mystic's prompt editor (which will eventually open a prompt in the ANSI editor).

    I did makes some edits in Mystic's ANSI editor, and nothing seems to be
    borked, so good to know!!

    |08.|07..|15.. |05Alpha |07- |13Card & Claw BBS |07- |08Berkeley, CA USA

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/16 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card and Claw BBS | cardandclaw.com:8888 (77:1/127)