Subj : re: Mystic Theme help - logoff.ans
To   : bcw142
From : gcubebuddy
Date : Wed Apr 07 2021 08:17 pm

On 07 Apr 2021, bcw142 said the following...
 
 bc> On 06 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...
 bc>  
 bc>  gc> Hi, i actually was able to figure it out - partialy. at the top of th
 bc>  gc> file, i typed into the ans file itself "" and it seems to have gotten
 bc>  gc> pass the error pause message, but now it is scrolling by super fast. 
 bc>  gc> there a display command that will slow it down? i tried looking in th
 bc>  gc> documented display codes but was not able to find anything right off 
 bc> 
 bc>    There are controls but they depend on how you are displaying things.
 bc> In general things like the GD Display a file command have a baudrate &
 bc> pause controls:
 bc>  + New options for the GD "Display a file" menu command.  The old
 bc> optional data where just the filename is supplied continues to work, but
 bc> now if the first character is @ it will expect a few options in the
 bc> following format:
 bc> 
 bc>       Format #1: filename
 bc>       Format #2: @baudrate@true/false/end@filename
 bc>    The @baudrate field specifies the baud rate to display the file.
 bc> 
 bc>    The second field defines how file pauses should work.  If set to TRUE
 bc>    the file will pause.  If set to false it will not pause.  If set to
 bc> END then it will only pause after displaying the file.
 bc> 
 bc>    The final @filename is just the same as the format #1
 bc> 
 bc>    For example:
 bc>      @38400@end@bogacid1.ans
 bc> 
 bc>    The above would display JEDs 250kb ANSImation at 38400 baud, with no
 bc>    pauses except for one at the end.
 bc> 
 bc> The gallery (GA) command also does this as do some others. 
 bc> 
 bc> 
 bc>  gc> bat. also i noticed something. the graphic i am replacing it with, wa
 bc>  gc> edited together with Mobeous. however all the colors were wrong. howe
 bc>  gc> when i brought the ans files into a windows VM and saved them with ou
 bc>  gc> the sause info, it began showing the correct colors again. it seems l
 bc>  gc> Mobeous has a hard time saving metadata to the file, in a language wh
 bc>  gc> mystic understands.
 bc> 
 bc> Maybe it's using iCE colors? There are MCI pipe codes to turn iCE on and
 bc> off: first most of us use ! instead of the pipe code || as that code
 bc> modifies what is being shown. In ANSIs !CY turns on iCE colors !CN turns
 bc> off iCE colors. Just like !CL will clear the screen at the start of an
 bc> ANSI or !14 will turn text bright yellow.
 bc> There are also ways to pause big files with a pipe code: !PA for pause
 bc> will put a pause prompt where it's added to an ANSI (best at start of
 bc> line).
 bc> 
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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...

Thanks
 - Gamecube Buddy 

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