Sorry for all the questions recently. I'm still a n00b when it comes to Mystic.

Was wondering if there is a way to display a text file from within the menus?

I have a one line ANSI live weather information that I have setup in my WWIV BBS, which basically just displays the text file after the main menu - prior
to the selection prompt.

Was wondering if there is a way to do that in Mystic? I saw a few options
that I thought might work - like ANSI display file - but tried that option
with the "Data" of my entire path to the file and didn't see any output.

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/20/16, Weatherman pondered and said...

Sorry for all the questions recently. I'm still a n00b when it comes to Mystic.

It's totally fine and most welcome :)

Was wondering if there is a way to display a text file from within the menus?

Yes. The ways I can think of, off the top of my head are:

Use the GD menu command to 'Display a file' and in your data field type in
the name of (let's say) a text file like test.txt

Then in your text directory, create this file and populate with text and
other MCI codes to clear the screen, pause at the end etc.

That will certainly allow you display something.


You can also use the GT commans to 'Display a line of text" then in your data line add something like |CL This is my line of text |CR | PA or similar

Was wondering if there is a way to display a text file from within the menus?

I have a one line ANSI live weather information that I have setup in my WWIV BBS, which basically just displays the text file after the main
menu - prior to the selection prompt.

Was wondering if there is a way to do that in Mystic? I saw a few
options that I thought might work - like ANSI display file - but tried that option with the "Data" of my entire path to the file and didn't see any output.

So is it you want to see the output of a single line of text below the menu options?

Best, Paul

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On 09/20/16, Weatherman said the following...

Sorry for all the questions recently. I'm still a n00b when it comes to Mystic.

Was wondering if there is a way to display a text file from within the menus?

I have a one line ANSI live weather information that I have setup in my WWIV BBS, which basically just displays the text file after the main
menu - prior to the selection prompt.

Was wondering if there is a way to do that in Mystic? I saw a few
options that I thought might work - like ANSI display file - but tried that option with the "Data" of my entire path to the file and didn't see any output.

Many times, the text gets flashed on the screen, then the screen gets cleared by the menu. Did you put a pause (PA) MCI code at the bottom of the text
file?

"No matter where you go, there you are!" - Buckaroo Bonzai

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Cyberia BBS | Cyberia.Darktech.Org | Kingwood, TX (21:1/120)

Was wondering if there is a way to display a text file from within the menus?

Hey Weatherman, maybe the menu item '|DT' (if I'm remembering right) can be useful to you, as it has been to me - 'display a line of text'. If you want
to attach directly a file, maybe you can try '|DF###' where '###' is the name of the file in TEXT folder. I've implemented lots of things with these cool functions.

¯¯ÅndçŒd Cíld®®

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"It depends on who is looking."

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On 09/21/16, Avon said the following...

Use the GD menu command to 'Display a file' and in your data field type
in the name of (let's say) a text file like test.txt

Not sure how I missed that one. Will go back in the menu editor and check it out. I know the location of the single line text file, so I should be able
to use that option to display it after the main menu.

This is how it looks on my WWIV side of the house:


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[Temp:82.6F Hum:51% Wind:SE-7mph Baro:30.14in Rain:0.00in-Broken Clouds.]

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/21/16, Avon said the following...

Use the GD menu command to 'Display a file' and in your data field type
in the name of (let's say) a text file like test.txt

Then in your text directory, create this file and populate with text and other MCI codes to clear the screen, pause at the end etc.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't get this to work at the end of my main menu. It displays nothing no matter how I try it.

I tried the full path to the text file and then copied it to the text
directory under Mystic and just typed the filename in the "data" field for
GD.

No sure what I'm missing here. It is a one line text file with pipe codes in it.

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/21/16, Weatherman said the following...

[Temp:82.6F Hum:51% Wind:SE-7mph Baro:30.14in Rain:0.00in-Broken Clouds.]

Nice. I was looking for a way to display some of my weather station and HA information inside menus. Another project :(

-=>Richard Miles<=-
-=>Captain Obvious<=-
-=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Shadowscope BBS | bbs.shadowscope.com | Temple, GA (21:1/157)

On 09/21/16, Weatherman said the following...

On 09/21/16, Avon said the following...

Use the GD menu command to 'Display a file' and in your data field ty in the name of (let's say) a text file like test.txt

Then in your text directory, create this file and populate with text other MCI codes to clear the screen, pause at the end etc.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't get this to work at the end of my main menu. It displays nothing no matter how I try it.

I tried the full path to the text file and then copied it to the text directory under Mystic and just typed the filename in the "data" field
for GD.

No sure what I'm missing here. It is a one line text file with pipe
codes in it.

Do you need to put a pause code on the file?

"No matter where you go, there you are!" - Buckaroo Bonzai

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Cyberia BBS | Cyberia.Darktech.Org | Kingwood, TX (21:1/120)

On 09/21/16, Weatherman said the following...

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't get this to work at the end of my main menu. It displays nothing no matter how I try it.
- Mark
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

Sounds like it lacks a Pause pipePA as a last line of the screen or you can often add it as the next command with GT |PA
There are other methods of forcing a pause like reading input.

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

On 09/21/16, Captain Obvious said the following...

Nice. I was looking for a way to display some of my weather station and
HA information inside menus. Another project :(

Since I have my own weather station, which is also live on the internet, I
have one of the programs create this one line text file. I edited the source code of WWIV to make it display before the prompt.

Trying to do the same thing in Mystic but have yet to get it to display the file after the main menu. No matter where I have the file. Might be missing something simple, but don't know what the is yet.

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/21/16, Gryphon said the following...

Do you need to put a pause code on the file?

Not sure why I would need that. I just want the menu to display and display the file under it. Are you thinking the menu is showing up and printing the file and then re-displaying the menu right away so I can't see it?

I didn't see that in my scroll back. I just want it right before the prompts.

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/22/16, Weatherman pondered and said...

Trying to do the same thing in Mystic but have yet to get it to display the file after the main menu. No matter where I have the file. Might
be missing something simple, but don't know what the is yet.

Find the last line in the menu you're looking to do this in and create a new menu entry, remove all the settings and in the hotkey section set it to linefeed

That creates a blank line in your menu layout

Then I think the answer you're looking for is to create a new entry on your menu after that - one that defaults to 'Q quit to main menu'

Then edit the display text line of the entry.

Assuming your text file is created in the Mystic text directory and the text
is formatted as a single line (with/without MCI codes)...

Edit that display line to |DFtextfilename.txt

Remove the hotkey and lightbar high/low stuff also remove the command from
the menu below.

If this entry is the last on the list and you're just displaying native
mystic menu output then that will work for you.

If you want extra line spacing just add something like this

|CR|CR|DFtextfilename.txt


Hope that helps,

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 09/22/16, Weatherman said the following...

On 09/21/16, Gryphon said the following...

Do you need to put a pause code on the file?

Not sure why I would need that. I just want the menu to display and display the file under it. Are you thinking the menu is showing up and printing the file and then re-displaying the menu right away so I can't see it?

I didn't see that in my scroll back. I just want it right before the prompts.

What terminal are you using? Syncterm won't show stuff in scrollback if you
do a screen clear before it.

"No matter where you go, there you are!" - Buckaroo Bonzai

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Cyberia BBS | Cyberia.Darktech.Org | Kingwood, TX (21:1/120)

On 09/22/16, Weatherman said the following...

Since I have my own weather station, which is also live on the internet,
I have one of the programs create this one line text file. I edited the source code of WWIV to make it display before the prompt.

Not sure what you are using but I use VWS and for anything like that it lets you use templates. Just tossing stuff around in my head, maybe create a one line animated ansi and save it to not clear screen and then edit the template in a text editor to add whatever weather info you want shown?

I haven't tried it yet but that's how I display my menu prompts. They are actually external files and I use the DF code to display them.

-=>Richard Miles<=-
-=>Captain Obvious<=-
-=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Shadowscope BBS | bbs.shadowscope.com | Temple, GA (21:1/157)

On 09/23/16, Avon said the following...

On 09/22/16, Weatherman pondered and said...

Trying to do the same thing in Mystic but have yet to get it to displ the file after the main menu. No matter where I have the file. Migh

Edit that display line to |DFtextfilename.txt

That worked perfectly here. Haven't added any pipe codes yet for coloring but and I'll probably shorten it but Just above my menu prompt and rumor I have:

It's 85.5 degrees at 6:31pm on 9/22/16. Humidity: 43% Heat Index: 85.4
degrees
Rainfall for Today: 0.00in Today's High: 89.1 degrees Today's Low: 34.2
degrees
Sunrise is at 7:30am and Sunset is at 7:38pm

-=>Richard Miles<=-
-=>Captain Obvious<=-
-=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Shadowscope BBS | bbs.shadowscope.com | Temple, GA (21:1/157)

On 09/22/16, Captain Obvious pondered and said...

That worked perfectly here. Haven't added any pipe codes yet for
coloring but and I'll probably shorten it but Just above my menu prompt and rumor I have:

Great :) Glad I could help :)

I did a bit of playing at Agency BBS first to confirm things before I posted
my suggestion so was fairly confident it would do the trick.

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 09/22/16, Weatherman said the following...

On 09/21/16, Gryphon said the following...

Do you need to put a pause code on the file?

Not sure why I would need that. I just want the menu to display and display the file under it. Are you thinking the menu is showing up and printing the file and then re-displaying the menu right away so I can't see it?
- Mark
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

He, like me, was thinking it wasn't displaying because it flashed by too
quick. That doesn't sound like your problem. I don't have anything displaying right there at the moment, but might experiment to see how to do it. Right
now I have the rumors coming up on the top line right after the menu title,
so I should likely move them down to where you want to display stuff. So I
need to experiment and find how to do that myself too.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

On 09/23/16, Avon said the following...

Assuming your text file is created in the Mystic text directory and the text is formatted as a single line (with/without MCI codes)...

Edit that display line to |DFtextfilename.txt

Thanks!!! That worked! Not sure why I could get the Display File option to work originally, but using the pipe and embedding it in the menu line worked perfectly!

I now have live weather stats in Mystic after my main menu!

Thanks again!

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/22/16, Captain Obvious said the following...

Not sure what you are using but I use VWS and for anything like that it lets you use templates. Just tossing stuff around in my head, maybe
create a one line animated ansi and save it to not clear screen and then edit the template in a text editor to add whatever weather info you want shown?

That is one of the programs I use here for my Weather Station, and I am using VWS to create the file from the VWS tags.

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)

On 09/22/16, Captain Obvious said the following...

That worked perfectly here. Haven't added any pipe codes yet for
coloring but and I'll probably shorten it but Just above my menu prompt and rumor I have:
It's 85.5 degrees at 6:31pm on 9/22/16. Humidity: 43% Heat Index: 85.4 degrees
Rainfall for Today: 0.00in Today's High: 89.1 degrees Today's Low: 34.2 degrees
Sunrise is at 7:30am and Sunset is at 7:38pm

Cool, looks like you are doing something similar on your system! I'm using Virtual Weather Station to create the file using the various tags and also using color pipe codes.

Thanks to Avon for the proper way to set this up after the menu. Now my
Mystic side of the BBS main menu looks like my WWIV side of the BBS - both showing the live weather before the prompt.

- Mark

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Weather Station BBS * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/170)