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    From themadtux@21:1/172 to All on Monday, October 16, 2017 14:21:15
    Have a quick question. I have a lightbar menu setup, here's where the questions come in...

    |111|15]|07 how do I get it to go both up and down as well as left and right
    in navigating the menu. (have up and down working) The menu items are
    located via X & Y coords.

    |112|15]|07 How can I make the lightbar skip a menu item if it's unavailable. Say I have a A--B--C and I want it to go from A to C skipping B. How would this be accomplished?

    Hope these questions are clear enough :]

    Cheers!

    |15-|08t|19|00M|16|08t|07 |08facility|07bbs|15.|00|23darktech|16|15.|08org|07

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: the facility bbs (21:1/172)
  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to themadtux on Monday, October 16, 2017 22:41:11
    1] how do I get it to go both up and down as well as left and right
    Use the lightbar/grid type for left/right/home/esc etc

    2] How can I make the lightbar skip a menu item if it's unavailable.
    not possible, I was looking in that too last weekend. If you configure it
    like always visible and you dont match the security level then it still
    selects the option but you cant execute the command.

    Would be cool to have an option for this situation where you can configure
    the color of the non-accessible menu items including the skip option you mentioned.

    Gtx!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: -.sOUNDGARDEn.- (21:1/116)
  • From themadtux@21:1/172 to sPINOZa on Monday, October 16, 2017 21:25:40
    on |1510/16/17|07, |11sPINOZa |08said the following|15.|07.|08.

    1] how do I get it to go both up and down as well as left and right
    Use the lightbar/grid type for left/right/home/esc etc


    yeh I have it setup, tried using the left and right options but it doesn't seem to want to go left or right. hmmmm.... gonna have to figure this out..

    2] How can I make the lightbar skip a menu item if it's unavailable.
    not possible, I was looking in that too last weekend. If you configure it like always visible and you dont match the security level then it still selects the option but you cant execute the command.


    man that's a bummer... I just removed the command from it, it doesn't skip
    the menu option but acts similar. configured it's properies to look the same
    as when itt's not got the lightbar on it. it's a workaround so to speak.

    cheers!

    |15-|08t|19|00M|16|08t|07 |08facility|07bbs|15.|00|23darktech|16|15.|08org|07

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: the facility bbs (21:1/172)
  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to themadtux on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 20:19:22
    yeh I have it setup, tried using the left and right options but it doesn't seem to want to go left or right. hmmmm.... gonna have to figure this out..

    2] How can I make the lightbar skip a menu item if it's unavaila
    not possible, I was looking in that too last weekend. If you configur like always visible and you dont match the security level then it sti selects the option but you cant execute the command.


    man that's a bummer... I just removed the command from it, it doesn't
    skip the menu option but acts similar. configured it's properies to look the same as when itt's not got the lightbar on it. it's a workaround so
    to speak.

    Maybe you can you load an ansi file too of the menu and also create the
    normal and highlighted commands, except for the one that is unavailable. But
    in that case you will have to load a menu based on flag settings.
    By the way I also noticed a bug with the lightbar/grid menus. When you add a comment afterwards on top then the bbs exits with an error.
    Another problem is that when you return to the menu after a gosub that
    options with FIRSTCMD will not load again, only the grid is being redisplayed.

    Gtx!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: -.sOUNDGARDEn.- (21:1/116)
  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to themadtux on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 20:29:01
    Forgot to mention that I renumbered my menu items, after changing/adding/removing commands I ended up with an index number starting at
    1 and ending at 83 or something like that. I edited the menu in a text editor to make sure the commands were numbered from 1 to 16 ..... We need a renumber option!!

    It is also handy to draw the screen in an ansi editor and place the numbers before the commands. It makes it way more easy to see what number the left, right, up, down etc are pointing to.

    Gtx!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: -.sOUNDGARDEn.- (21:1/116)
  • From themadtux@21:1/172 to sPINOZa on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 19:54:34
    on |1510/17/17|07, |11sPINOZa |08said the following|15.|07.|08.

    starting at 1 and ending at 83 or something like that. I edited the menu in a text editor to make sure the commands were numbered from 1 to 16 ..... We need a renumber option!!

    yeah a renumber would be great :)

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: the facility bbs (21:1/172)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to sPINOZa on Monday, October 23, 2017 16:04:35
    2] How can I make the lightbar skip a menu item if it's unavailable.
    not possible, I was looking in that too last weekend. If you configure it like always visible and you dont match the security level then it still selects the option but you cant execute the command.

    You can do this if you want to but its a little sloppy. Each command has an ACS for it, so if you mean unavailable as defined by a security level, then setting that will not allow the cursor to select it.

    Then you can just display the "low" version of it with a menu command or in your ANSI if you use one.

    Its not the prettiest way, but you can def do it.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (21:1/108)