Subj : Re: Need help with LordMenu utility
To   : Scott Adams
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Thu Jan 11 2007 11:52 pm


> Did you check out SWAG the ansi section?  If I recall it has
> a whole file on ansi codes and pretty easy to figure out.
> If Bjorn can't help you I'll see what i can.  But the file
> and code is big.  If you have specific questions or something
> for me to look for please let me know.  Otherwise i'd just
> be reading line by line and not sure what to look for
> exactly.  :)
> Is it just the Ansi stuff?

I just don't understand ANSI file editing very well, so I've not tried to 
figure out solutions to the issue.  I tried for a full month to  do this and 
that with the original Lordmenu code I got from Robert Fogt, but nothing would 
work.  As far as I know, the data file it creates in RIP mode works fine.  And 
I have no idea if it would make any difference if it wrote the file as 
3rdalt.ans or not. 

I tried renaming Lordmenu's 3rdalt.txt file to 3rd_alt.ans, and viewing it in 
Pablo Draw.  I have around 27 igms installed in my Lord game - most of them are 
either mine or ones that i have loved using for years.  Anyway, all that 
displays in PABLO is the colored letters for L.O.R.D., the phrase/line "Choose 
your path wisely", and one single line of IGM entries. Which is for the last 
two igms in the file.  The other 26 igm entries don't get shown on the screen.  
The same thing happens when LORD itself tries to display that 3rdalt.txt file.  


Is it possible in Borland Pascal to write the ansi symbols to a buffer, that 
only holds 255 characters?  Write the buffer's content to a file, and clear the 
buffer.  Then repeat the process until every line of the 3rdparty.dat that is 
processed by LORDMENU has been translated into ANSI characters, and written to 
a file?  That's the only thing I think would work, but I don't know how to put 
it into pascal code statements to see if that concept would work.  Donald

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