Whats up dude -
XQ-ilc2 work in windows correct , Im having a hell of a time getting to work
.

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Whats up dude -
XQ-ilc2 work in windows correct , Im having a hell of a time getting to work .

xq-ilc is a mpl script, so it runs under windows fine. If you are having trouble setting up it, be more specific, what's the problem?

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I am running Mystic v1.12 A42 Windows/64 Compiled 2019/02/0122:33:37
I have recompiled all in scripts in dir
I have corrected the base id
I have corrected path to text files
I have verified correct python rev
I have verified python is working
i am using the following commands / menu

(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc-mpy
(GX) Execute MPL Program xq-ilc.mps
(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc-mpy

I get the following errors

PYTHON ERROR (xq-ilc_get.mpy)

ValueError: invalid \x escape

Press a key

MPL Version mismatch: Uses Cfg;Co / [MPX 11240A]

PYTHON ERROR (xq-ilc_get.mpy)

ValueError: invalid \x escape

Press a key

So I am kinda stuck . any help would be great I would really like this to
work

Thanks

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PYTHON ERROR (xq-ilc_get.mpy)
ValueError: invalid \x escape

This is not an error of the script... it may be something with the encoding of the file, of the script, or something with your python setup. I bet on the encoding. Open the file with notepad++, or Geany and change the encoding, to UTF8, or Windows-xxxx. I think it will fix it.

MPL Version mismatch: Uses Cfg;Co / [MPX 11240A]

This is definitely a version mismatch. Something in your system is from the
A40 version, but now you use the A42. Make sure that you follow the upgrade steps correct, remove old .mpx files and recompile all .mps.

I am using A42 and the script works perfect, under linux. So the code is not faulty... yet... :) Unfortunately i don't have a windows pc, to make my own tests and see whats wrong for example with the file encoding.

Give a try and tell me the results.

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(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc-mpy
(GX) Execute MPL Program xq-ilc.mps
(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc-mpy

Well first thing i the GX command is wrong. You are trying to run a .mps
file which is a source code to a MPL program. Remove the .MPS.

I don't know what 'xq-ilc-mpy' is, but I am guessing you need to drop the "-mpy" because its probably not called "xq-ilc-mpy.mpy"

(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc
(GX) Execute MPL Program xq-ilc
(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc

Try that ^^

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aha!! thats all i will say about my ignorance!! Thank you g00r00!!

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On 07 Feb 2019, xqtr said the following...

PYTHON ERROR (xq-ilc_get.mpy)
ValueError: invalid \x escape

This is not an error of the script... it may be something with the encoding of the file, of the script, or something with your python
setup. I bet on the encoding. Open the file with notepad++, or Geany and change the encoding, to UTF8, or Windows-xxxx. I think it will fix it.

Alternatively, if you're running Linux, you can use dos2unix. :)

Fireball

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Ok well I got the version mismatch fixed. However I am still stuck on
" invalid \x escape "

I reinstalled python, and verified function by 1: running mystic demos Python 2 : running scripts from the prompt 3: The fsx script works great so python setup and use should not be an issue .

I changed the encoding and verified its UTF8

I am also now getting " no data to display " im guessing is due to the script error .

Thanks
-Todd

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Ok well I got the version mismatch fixed. However I am still stuck on
" invalid \x escape "

Did you done what g00r00 pointed out? The commands you used are wrong:

(GY) Execute Python Module xq-ilc-mpy <--- the script name is xq-ilc_get.mpy (GX) Execute MPL Program xq-ilc.mps <--- You don't execute mps files, only
mpx.

I am also now getting " no data to display " im guessing is due to the script error .

Because the _get script haven't got any data, the main script hasn't anything to display. You are almost there... :)

I hope the following helps. Make sure you have compiled the mps files with mplc. Also the .zip file, must be unzipped inside the scripts folder. Don't transfer ex. the ansi files to the text area.

In the prelogin menu, add a command like this:
Command: GX
Data: xq-ilc_send

Don't enter file extensions!

In the menu you are executing the main script, to display the last callers add a menu entry with those two commands:

Command: GY
Data: xq-ilc_get

Command: GX
Data: xq-ilc

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Maybe I am having a brain fart on this, I had the exact same issues as
Solaris, I fixed all of those issues but maybe I am just showing my
stupidity, but I also am getting no data to display, even though I have a bunch of .ilc files in the data directory?? I will wait and see what happens if I start seeing a fill in..

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Disreguard my last message.. I got it working but now the graphics are messed up.. Has anyone had this issue?? It looks like it is for a wider screen then
80 columns...

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Disreguard all my messages. LOL I figured it out.. If anyone else comes
across the screens looking like they are for a wider screen, what I did was load them in PabloDraw and resave them.. Now everything is perfect... Like
the mod too.. It's nice..

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Disreguard all my messages. LOL I figured it out.. If anyone else comes across the screens looking like they are for a wider screen, what I did was load them in PabloDraw and resave them.. Now everything is
perfect... Like the mod too.. It's nice..

I think is an ANSI editor on Mac or something that saves garbled ANSIs that don't load in many traditional ANSI editors. I've seen in it modern art packs but I haven't looked into it further to pin point what is going on. If TheDraw can't even load them then its not ANSI-BBS IMO.

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Thanks for the info g00r00, I fixed it by loading the ANSI's into PabloDraw
and resaving them, and they look fine now.. :) Thanks again...

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Disreguard my last message.. I got it working but now the graphics are messed up.. Has anyone had this issue?? It looks like it is for a wider screen then 80 columns...

Nope the ansi graphics are for 79x24 screen... not even 80x25 ;) for the exact reason not to have messed up graphics. Perhaps the problem is the format. I
use linux and TundraDraw to make my ansis. Perhaps windows don't like the way the file is saved in linux. It has been always a problem between linux-windows machines.

My best bet, is to open the file with pablo and saved it again, to convert the file in "windows format".

Also... if you have remaining .ilc files in the directory, something went wrong. Delete them. The script gets fresh ones from the echoarea. Also there
is a new verion 1.23, disregard the ilc2. Not many fixes, but still better ;) Welcome on board :)

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On 17 Feb 2019, xqtr said the following...

Nope the ansi graphics are for 79x24 screen... not even 80x25 ;) for the exact reason not to have messed up graphics. Perhaps the problem is the format. I use linux and TundraDraw to make my ansis. Perhaps windows
don't like the way the file is saved in linux. It has been always a problem between linux-windows machines.

My best bet, is to open the file with pablo and saved it again, to
convert the file in "windows format".

That's exactly what I did and it works like a charm.. Thanks..

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format. I use linux and TundraDraw to make my ansis. Perhaps windows
don't like the way the file is saved in linux. It has been always a problem between linux-windows machines.

Have you considered using something other than TundraDraw?

The ANSI files in Mystic are the same regardless of if you install to Windows or Linux and they all work fine. Mystic's ANSIs are created using Mystic's built in ANSI editor, or TheDraw (and on occasion my editors I've worked on in the past: Genesis Engine and Empathy)

My point is: All of those editors can create files that display correctly across different operating systems, but TundraDraw can't. ANSI files should be saved in CRLF regardless of the operating system because they are not text files. An OS's text file line terminator should not apply to .ANS.

Seems like TundraDraw is saving them wrong.

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Have you considered using something other than TundraDraw?

Oh yes... many times... but i am getting my self, always returning back to
this old program, which i have to execute through wine :)

Tundra has better key shortcuts (for me) than pablo and also supports copy/paste, which in other programs doesn't work well or at all. In the case
of pablo, i can't use its shortcuts... don't know why :)

My point is: All of those editors can create files that display correctly across different operating systems, but TundraDraw can't. ANSI files should be saved in CRLF regardless of the operating system because they are not text files. An OS's text file line terminator should not apply
to .ANS.
Seems like TundraDraw is saving them wrong.

I know that and in most cases after creating an ANSI i use pablo to do the
last "conversion". Perhaps in this case i forgot to do that. My mistake.

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I know that and in most cases after creating an ANSI i use pablo to do
the last "conversion". Perhaps in this case i forgot to do that. My mistake.

Is the latest version of TundraDraw open sourced? I wonder if it could be fixed to save as CRLF.

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Is the latest version of TundraDraw open sourced? I wonder if it could
be fixed to save as CRLF.

Yes it is, but is written in C(something) and using QT4. I tried to compile
it, but repos support QT5, i am complete ignorant of qt or c so i couldn't compile it :(

Here is the source:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tundradraw/code/HEAD/tree/

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Yes it is, but is written in C(something) and using QT4. I tried to compile it, but repos support QT5, i am complete ignorant of qt or c so
i couldn't compile it :(

Here is the source:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tundradraw/code/HEAD/tree/

Maybe I'll try to take a look at it sometime. I know one of the authors, he used to be on the Mystic BBS alpha team back in the day maybe he's even still around.

Also since you are doing some scripting in MPL and Python, are there any
things you'd like to see added into Python that MPL has?

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Maybe I'll try to take a look at it sometime. I know one of the
authors, he used to be on the Mystic BBS alpha team back in the day
maybe he's even still around.

Great, its a nice, small and quick editor, for gui. It deserves some development :)

Also since you are doing some scripting in MPL and Python, are there any things you'd like to see added into Python that MPL has?

Actually i would like for mpl the same commands as in python for accessing messages in echoareas. mpl doesn:t have that.

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things you'd like to see added into Python that MPL has?

Actually i would like for mpl the same commands as in python for
accessing messages in echoareas. mpl doesn:t have that.

I am trying to work more on Python at the moment, but thanks I may add that in sometime to MPL. MPL is much more difficult to work with, its slower, and obviously can't compete with Python in capabilities either - so bringing
Python up to speed is my primary goal at the moment.

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I am trying to work more on Python at the moment, but thanks I may add that in sometime to MPL. MPL is much more difficult to work with, its slower, and obviously can't compete with Python in capabilities either - so bringing Python up to speed is my primary goal at the moment.

Sure, i get it. Whenever you can. MPL is very capable as it is, if in some point has also access to message bases, would complete it as a scripting lang. for mystic.

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On 17 Feb 2019, xqtr said the following...

Have you considered using something other than TundraDraw?

I keep getting MPL Version Mismatch errors when I run it. I did re-compile everything. Any ideas?

Mickey

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On 18 Feb 2019, Mickey said the following...

On 17 Feb 2019, xqtr said the following...

Have you considered using something other than TundraDraw?

I keep getting MPL Version Mismatch errors when I run it. I did
re-compile everything. Any ideas?

Make sure you didn't do the same thing as I did. Make sure you name it
without the .mps or .mpx I was using it as .mps and you will get a Version Mismatch error. Just name it with the script name not extension...

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On 18 Feb 2019, Bucko said the following...

Make sure you didn't do the same thing as I did. Make sure you name it without the .mps or .mpx I was using it as .mps and you will get a
Version Mismatch error. Just name it with the script name not
extension...

I got some movement when I removed the suffix's from each command. Now I get
no info to read/display so I must have something else wrong. The Mismatch
error is gone so something is right. :-)

Mick

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I got some movement when I removed the suffix's from each command. Now I get no info to read/display so I must have something else wrong. The Mismatch error is gone so something is right. :-)

i guess you are using windows... in windows the \x is a special character...
so when you changed the directories in the scripts from /something/xq-ilc...
to \something\xq-ilc... python recognizes the \x as a special symbol, so it spits out an error. the problem is only in the xq-ilc_get.mpy

the solution is to write the directory like: \something\\xq-lastcaller with double \

try that and tell us if its ok.

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On 19 Feb 2019, Mickey said the following...

On 18 Feb 2019, Bucko said the following...

I got some movement when I removed the suffix's from each command. Now I get no info to read/display so I must have something else wrong. The Mismatch error is gone so something is right. :-)

Well that's a good thing then.. We're moving closer.. Next step is make sure you use the \\ before xq-ilastcaller in the I think get file, I first changed it to ilastcaller with 1 \ and I was getting no info when I changed the name
of the folder back to xq-ilastcaller and added the \\ in it worked like a charm... Try that...

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On 19 Feb 2019, xqtr said the following...

i guess you are using windows... in windows the \x is a special character... so when you changed the directories in the scripts from

Installed on Raspbian. I've actually managed to get a proper screen now, but now wondering how you navigate within the screen to select BBS's to visit
etc. If I press anything but 'H' for help, it returns to the main menu.

Slowly but surely....

Mick

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On 19 Feb 2019, Bucko said the following...

I changed the name of the folder back to xq-ilastcaller and added the \\ in it worked like a charm... Try that...

I've got this installed on linux so I've used the other directory setup. It
is displaying fancy screen now but still haven't figured out how to navigate around it. It's coming. Thanks for the help man...

Mick

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On 19 Feb 2019, Mickey said the following...

I've got this installed on linux so I've used the other directory setup. It is displaying fancy screen now but still haven't figured out how to navigate around it. It's coming. Thanks for the help man...

No problem, glad I could be a little help...

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press l for a list or b for top bbses. its written in the help screen. :)

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My version is zq-ilc123.zip. I pointed the send mps to a local message base and no message is created. Everything else work, like getting the data and viewing the info. Also corrected the ansi screen to show no more than 80
and it displays fine. Just can't get the send to create message.

Running mystic alpha 43 on windows 10 32bit

Any ideas? I did try your first version also, no message either.

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On 20 Feb 2019, Zazz said the following...

My version is zq-ilc123.zip. I pointed the send mps to a local message base and no message is created. Everything else work, like getting the data and viewing the info. Also corrected the ansi screen to show no
more than 80 and it displays fine. Just can't get the send to create message.

Running mystic alpha 43 on windows 10 32bit

Any ideas? I did try your first version also, no message either.

Update to the newest pre-alpha should resolve any issues. =D

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data and viewing the info. Also corrected the ansi screen to show no
more than 80 and it displays fine. Just can't get the send to create Running mystic alpha 43 on windows 10 32bit
Any ideas? I did try your first version also, no message either.

Make sure that you are not Invisible, cause then it doesn't send a message. Also tried what pequito said. :)

Check, from the logs, that you are running the xq-ilc_send.mpx <--- not .mps and that it executes fine, no errors.

Also check if you make a post yourself in the data area, in case is something wrong with the echoarea settings, which i don't think if you can get msgs from it... but never the less, make a try.

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My version is zq-ilc123.zip. I pointed the send mps to a local messa base and no message is created. Everything else work, like getting t data and viewing the info. Also corrected the ansi screen to show no more than 80 and it displays fine. Just can't get the send to create message.

Running mystic alpha 43 on windows 10 32bit

Any ideas? I did try your first version also, no message either.

Update to the newest pre-alpha should resolve any issues. =D

I will try that/

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Make sure that you are not Invisible, cause then it doesn't send a message. Also tried what pequito said. :)

Check, from the logs, that you are running the xq-ilc_send.mpx <--- not .mps and that it executes fine, no errors.

Also check if you make a post yourself in the data area, in case is something wrong with the echoarea settings, which i don't think if you
can get msgs from it... but never the less, make a try.

Ok, will recheck and get the latest prealpha

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