Hey dudes, I'm setting up a mystic board and noticed there doesn't seem to be much on the mystic bbs wiki about MPL. What resources are you all using to
help write MPL scripts? I'm basically stuck since it appears to be pretty undocumented :)

Right now I'm basically just trying to write up a "Disclaimer" style MPL to test for a password (in this case, "YES", but could be "AGREE" or something like that). I'm not really sure where to go to even get started. Are there
any resources floating around to help?

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On 09 May 2019 at 03:22p, esc pondered and said...

Hey dudes, I'm setting up a mystic board and noticed there doesn't seem
to be much on the mystic bbs wiki about MPL. What resources are you all using to help write MPL scripts? I'm basically stuck since it appears to be pretty undocumented :)

Right now I'm basically just trying to write up a "Disclaimer" style MPL to test for a password (in this case, "YES", but could be "AGREE" or something like that). I'm not really sure where to go to even get
started. Are there any resources floating around to help?

Yep, there's a nice resource that was put together by Gryphon for MPL. It's
not 100% up to date but it's a great reference tool. I really should work on getting it up on the Wiki (if Gryphon is OK that I do so with attribution?)
or at least have a link pointing to the file for download for now.

There's also a helpful tutorial that Xqtr put out some time ago.

Lemme have a look for both and I'll hatch / post more here when I progress
this as a follow up to this reply :)

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On 11 May 2019 at 04:15a, Avon pondered and said...

Yep, there's a nice resource that was put together by Gryphon for MPL. It's not 100% up to date but it's a great reference tool. I really
should work on getting it up on the Wiki (if Gryphon is OK that I do so with attribution?) or at least have a link pointing to the file for download for now.

Have a look at https://bit.ly/2vN39cX this will lead you to Gryphon's website where there's some HTML versions of his notes. I'm following up with Gryphon
on the possibility of getting some of this hatched out / to the Wiki in some way.

Also look for XQ-MPLTUTOR01.ZIP it's in the FSX_MUTL file echo.. and I am
about to re-hatch it out in case you (or others) don't have it.

Hope that helps.

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Yep, there's a nice resource that was put together by Gryphon for MPL. It's not 100% up to date but it's a great reference tool. I really
should work on getting it up on the Wiki (if Gryphon is OK that I do so with attribution?) or at least have a link pointing to the file for download for now.

Would love that!

There's also a helpful tutorial that Xqtr put out some time ago.

Lemme have a look for both and I'll hatch / post more here when I
progress this as a follow up to this reply :)

I saw xqtr's tutorial that you've just hatched - thanks. I'll put that to
work right away.

Anything for mystic python scripts? Seems like basically just python at this point (2.7, to boot) with a sprinkling of some mystic stuff mixed in?

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Have a look at https://bit.ly/2vN39cX this will lead you to Gryphon's website where there's some HTML versions of his notes. I'm following up with Gryphon on the possibility of getting some of this hatched out / to the Wiki in some way.

Excellent, bookmarked. Thanks. Yeah, wiki-fying stuff like this would be
cool, that way we don't stovepipe MPL modding knowledge to just the people
that knew how to find docs :)

Also look for XQ-MPLTUTOR01.ZIP it's in the FSX_MUTL file echo.. and I am about to re-hatch it out in case you (or others) don't have it.

Just saw this - thanks!

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Yep, there's a nice resource that was put together by Gryphon for MPL. It's not 100% up to date but it's a great reference tool. I really
should work on getting it up on the Wiki (if Gryphon is OK that I do so with attribution?) or at least have a link pointing to the file for download for now.
There's also a helpful tutorial that Xqtr put out some time ago.

There is also this file which i made some time ago, so it doesn't has some new additions to MPL. Check here: http://wiki.bbs.nz/programming:mplfunc

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There is also this file which i made some time ago, so it doesn't has
some new additions to MPL. Check here: http://wiki.bbs.nz/programming:mplfunc

Excellent! Thanks!

Maybe we can have some kind of community undertaking to update mystic
wikispace to include everything in the changelogs as well. I'd be happy to
help with this.

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Maybe we can have some kind of community undertaking to update mystic wikispace to include everything in the changelogs as well. I'd be happy
to help with this.

Sure, this is why i made that textfile, but it needs some update.

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On 09 May 2019, esc said the following...

Right now I'm basically just trying to write up a "Disclaimer" style MPL to test for a password (in this case, "YES", but could be "AGREE" or something like that). I'm not really sure where to go to even get
started. Are there any resources floating around to help?

Function INPUTYN (Text: String) : Boolean

This function prompts the user with a Yes/No question, defaulting
to Yes. TRUE will be returned if the user answered Yes, or FALSE
if the user answered No. The passed Text variable is the text
that is displayed to the user asking the question.

Example:

If Not InputYN('Do you want to run this program? ') Then
Halt

The above example will prompt the user with a Yes/No question,
asking "Do you want to run this program?". If the user responds
No, the program will not run, using the Halt command.
or
Function INPUTNY (Text: String) : Boolean

This function prompts the user with a Yes/No question, defaulting
to No. TRUE will be returned if the user answered Yes, or FALSE if
the user answered No. The passed Text variable is the text that is
displayed to the user asking the question.

Example:

If Not InputNY('Do you want to run this program? ') Then
Halt

The above example will prompt the user with the Yes/No question
passed as <Text>. This question will default to No. If the user
answers No, the program will halt from being executed.

for the i agree you could do this

var
str : string;

begin
//put disclaimer her via writeln(); or showfile();
write('|CR PLEASE SIGN HERE : ');
str := input(7, 7, 12, '')
if not str = 'I AGREE' then
Begin
writeln('|CR |12 INVALID ENTERY|04 SEE YOU NEXT TIME.|DE|DE');
halt

end else
Begin
what you want here
end

end

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On 11 May 2019, Avon said the following...

Yep, there's a nice resource that was put together by Gryphon for MPL. It's not 100% up to date but it's a great reference tool. I really
should work on getting it up on the Wiki (if Gryphon is OK that I do so with attribution?) or at least have a link pointing to the file for download for now.

i updated it to 1.12 a36

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for the i agree you could do this

-snip-

Thanks! Much appreciated. This is perfect.

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On 12 May 2019 at 05:27a, dream master pondered and said...

i updated it to 1.12 a36

Would you be OK if I hatched that out?

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On 12 May 2019, esc said the following...

for the i agree you could do this

-snip-
Thanks! Much appreciated. This is perfect.

glad it helped. i have this in my mpl i made so people can delete their account. i cant remember when i released it but its call the suicide mpl ;)

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On 13 May 2019, Avon said the following...

i updated it to 1.12 a36

Would you be OK if I hatched that out?

yes i hatched it out on DoRENET so you should have it.

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On 11 May 2019 &4, Avon said the following...

On 09 May 2019 at 03:22p, esc pondered and said...

Hey dudes, I'm setting up a mystic board and noticed there doesn't se to be much on the mystic bbs wiki about MPL. What resources are you a using to help write MPL scripts? I'm basically stuck since it appears be pretty undocumented :)

Right now I'm basically just trying to write up a "Disclaimer" style to test for a password (in this case, "YES", but could be "AGREE" or something like that). I'm not really sure where to go to even get started. Are there any resources floating around to help?

Yep, there's a nice resource that was put together by Gryphon for MPL. It's not 100% up to date but it's a great reference tool. I really
should work on getting it up on the Wiki (if Gryphon is OK that I do so with attribution?) or at least have a link pointing to the file for download for now.

There's also a helpful tutorial that Xqtr put out some time ago.

Lemme have a look for both and I'll hatch / post more here when I
progress this as a follow up to this reply :)

Yes, I put out an update to the MPL docs a long time ago, and now its a
little bit out dated in that it is missing some of the newer functions and variables that have been added since v110a59.

http://cyberiabbs.zapto.org/dispfile.php?textfile=gfiles/mystic/mpl/mpl_110a59. doc&title=mpl_110a59.doc

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In addition to my idea about custom log on screen / bulletins with
weather/etc, I'm looking at the MPL stuff. I thought I would download a
couple of existing ones to see how they work and how the code looks.

As an example, I downloaded Murder Mansion. Reading the sysop.txt file it
says to put this file in the scripts directory and that file in the data directory. Do these directories alread exist, or do I need to manually
create them, or are they created during compiling?

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