Subj : Mystic Theme help - logoff.ans
To   : gcubebuddy
From : bcw142
Date : Wed Apr 07 2021 03:19 am

On 06 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...
 
 gc> Hi, i actually was able to figure it out - partialy. at the top of the
 gc> file, i typed into the ans file itself "" and it seems to have gotten
 gc> pass the error pause message, but now it is scrolling by super fast. is
 gc> there a display command that will slow it down? i tried looking in the
 gc> documented display codes but was not able to find anything right off the

   There are controls but they depend on how you are displaying things. In 
general things like the GD Display a file command have a baudrate & pause
controls:
 + New options for the GD "Display a file" menu command.  The old optional
   data where just the filename is supplied continues to work, but now if
   the first character is @ it will expect a few options in the following
   format:

      Format #1: filename
      Format #2: @baudrate@true/false/end@filename
   The @baudrate field specifies the baud rate to display the file.

   The second field defines how file pauses should work.  If set to TRUE
   the file will pause.  If set to false it will not pause.  If set to END
   then it will only pause after displaying the file.

   The final @filename is just the same as the format #1

   For example:
     @38400@end@bogacid1.ans

   The above would display JEDs 250kb ANSImation at 38400 baud, with no
   pauses except for one at the end.

The gallery (GA) command also does this as do some others. 


 gc> bat. also i noticed something. the graphic i am replacing it with, was
 gc> edited together with Mobeous. however all the colors were wrong. however
 gc> when i brought the ans files into a windows VM and saved them with out
 gc> the sause info, it began showing the correct colors again. it seems like
 gc> Mobeous has a hard time saving metadata to the file, in a language which
 gc> mystic understands.

Maybe it's using iCE colors? There are MCI pipe codes to turn iCE on and off:
first most of us use ! instead of the pipe code || as that code modifies what
is being shown. In ANSIs !CY turns on iCE colors !CN turns off iCE colors.
Just like !CL will clear the screen at the start of an ANSI or !14 will
turn text bright yellow.
There are also ways to pause big files with a pipe code: !PA for pause will
put a pause prompt where it's added to an ANSI (best at start of line).

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