• Marque

    From Rick Smith@77:1/130.1 to All on Wed Dec 16 14:13:24 2020
    Greetings All!


    I started playing with the marquee feature(pi) I put a test one near the top of my main menu just to see how would look.. It seems to work fine but I noticed that now when you enter a command like to go to another menu that the prompt is at the end of the displaying marquee instead of the bottom of the page at the "command >" did I set something wrong or is this how its intended to be?


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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Rick Smith on Wed Dec 16 17:31:02 2020
    I started playing with the marquee feature(pi) I put a test one near the top of my main menu just to see how would look.. It seems to work fine
    but I noticed that now when you enter a command like to go to another
    menu that the prompt is at the end of the displaying marquee instead of the bottom of the page at the "command >" did I set something wrong or
    is this how its intended to be?

    Are you using the latest version, if not you need to upgrade. What type of menu, etc etc

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  • From Rick Smith@77:1/130.1 to g00r00 on Fri Dec 18 07:23:52 2020
    Greetings g00r00!

    Wednesday December 16 2020 17:31, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

    * Forwarded from area 'scimystic'
    I started playing with the marquee feature(pi) I put a test one
    near the top of my main menu just to see how would look.. It

    Are you using the latest version, if not you need to upgrade. What
    type of menu, etc etc

    Ill upgrade to the latest just incase I thought I was but hard to tell... It was the main menu I was testing it on



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    Rick Smith (Nitro)

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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Rick Smith on Fri Dec 18 11:15:57 2020
    Ill upgrade to the latest just incase I thought I was but hard to
    tell... It was the main menu I was testing it on

    You can tell by the date of the build. You can do that my running mis version, mystic version, looking Version Information in the configuration, or by the tear line on messages and so on. Your version should be dated December something. If it is and you have an issue please describe, show, or send me the menu.

    It seems there are plenty people using Marquees and no reports of issues in the latest build that I know of. There was a bug when it was first added that could end up doing what you're describing. That bug was fixed a while back so lets hope that an upgrade will fix it for you!

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  • From Rick Smith@77:1/130.1 to g00r00 on Fri Dec 18 18:32:28 2020
    Greetings g00r00!

    Friday December 18 2020 11:15, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

    * Forwarded from area 'scimystic'
    Ill upgrade to the latest just incase I thought I was but hard to
    tell... It was the main menu I was testing it on

    You can tell by the date of the build. You can do that my running mis version, mystic version, looking Version Information in the
    configuration, or by the tear line on messages and so on. Your
    version should be dated December something. If it is and you have an issue please describe, show, or send me the menu.

    Oh its working I upgraded... I knew how to tell what version I am currently on, I just meant that I had no way to tell if there was a newer version on the web site.. no worries all is good... its pretty cool feature..


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    Rick Smith (Nitro)

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  • From Warpslide@77:1/156 to Rick Smith on Sat Dec 19 09:19:57 2020
    On 18 Dec 2020, Rick Smith said the following...

    Oh its working I upgraded... I knew how to tell what version I am currently on, I just meant that I had no way to tell if there was a newer RS> version on the web site.. no worries all is good... its pretty cool RS> feature..

    I usually wait and see if someone else with a Pi install of Mystic posts something, or I have a small bash script I run from time to time to show me the current modified date of the files:

    $ cat myschk.sh
    #!/bin/bash
    cd /tmp
    wget http://mysticbbs.com/downloads/prealpha/mys112a47_pi.zip
    unzip -l ./mys112a47_pi.zip
    echo #
    read -p "Delete zip? " -n 1 -r
    echo #
    if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
    then
    rm -f /tmp/mys112a47_pi.zip
    fi
    echo #

    Jay

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  • From Rick Smith@77:1/130.1 to Warpslide on Sat Dec 19 08:31:22 2020
    Greetings Warpslide!

    Saturday December 19 2020 09:19, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

    * Forwarded from area 'scimystic'
    On 18 Dec 2020, Rick Smith said the following...

    I usually wait and see if someone else with a Pi install of Mystic
    posts something, or I have a small bash script I run from time to time
    to show me the current modified date of the files:

    $ cat myschk.sh
    #!/bin/bash
    cd /tmp
    wget http://mysticbbs.com/downloads/prealpha/mys112a47_pi.zip
    unzip -l ./mys112a47_pi.zip
    echo #
    read -p "Delete zip? " -n 1 -r
    echo #
    if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
    then
    rm -f /tmp/mys112a47_pi.zip
    fi
    echo #

    Very smart!



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    Rick Smith (Nitro)

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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Rick Smith on Mon Dec 21 16:29:53 2020
    Oh its working I upgraded... I knew how to tell what version I am currently on,

    I just meant that I had no way to tell if there was a newer version on
    the web site.. no worries all is good... its pretty cool feature..

    Ahhh right I see what you're saying. If you look at the date of the files on the site it should tell you the version. But if you're using a web browser like Chrome or something I think it won't show you the file dates. I'll have to see about making improvements in this area.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to g00r00 on Tue Jan 5 20:23:18 2021
    Ahhh right I see what you're saying. If you look at the date of the
    files onthe site it should tell you the version. But if you're using a web browserlike Chrome or something I think it won't show you the file dates. I'll haveto see about making improvements in this area.

    I could easily write a script to check the timestamps on the files is jp would allow annon ftp access. I could then auto post a message in this Mystic echo and the Fidonet one announcing new pre-alphas.

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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Netsurge on Tue Jan 5 23:16:40 2021
    I could easily write a script to check the timestamps on the files is jp wouldallow annon ftp access. I could then auto post a message in this Mystic echoand the Fidonet one announcing new pre-alphas.

    I may end up doing something like that here. I debate if I really want that to happen though because sometimes I compile a build and I mess it up and I end up making a new one like 2 hours later lol. So do I really want everyone to know right away and have people finding those bad builds?

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to g00r00 on Wed Jan 6 14:00:44 2021
    I may end up doing something like that here. I debate if I really want that tohappen though because sometimes I compile a build and I mess it
    up and I end upmaking a new one like 2 hours later lol. So do I really want everyone to knowright away and have people finding those bad builds?

    Set it up to run once a day at like 4am. What are the odds you are still building releases at 4am, lol.

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  • From g00r00@77:1/138 to Netsurge on Wed Jan 6 17:35:03 2021
    I may end up doing something like that here. I debate if I really wa that tohappen though because sometimes I compile a build and I mess i up and I end upmaking a new one like 2 hours later lol. So do I real want everyone to knowright away and have people finding those bad bui

    Set it up to run once a day at like 4am. What are the odds you are still building releases at 4am, lol.

    These days thats pretty low chance lol.

    The way I have it setup right now is I have a VMware for Linux and macOS each. Each of them have a share back to my Windows machine. I have a build script on my Windows machine, one on macOS and one on Linux VMwares all which create a distribution and then place it in a directory on my Windows machine.

    For the Pi I manually copy the code to a USB (which doubles as a source code backup), and have a similar script on my Pi that mounts the USB, compiles, and places the .zip on the USB. Then I manually copy that to my Windows system.

    At that point I have everything in a directory on Windows and I was thinking I could make a batch file that FTPs them to the prealpha folder and then posts a text file using MUTIL to the various networks.

    Its not really the best process but at least the build is automated now.

    I would love to get a single Linux Ubuntu VMware setup that could cross compile for all Intel and ARM platforms in a single OS, so that is the "end game" but I think it'll be pretty challenging to get it all working.

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