On 11/22/16, KB2MOB pondered and said...
Yes, use the / command to bring up a menu and you will find it there 'draw mode'. I think ctrl-t also brings it up from memory also.. :)
You can do some nice ANSI art there and then drop back to the regular full screen editor.
How would I save it as a file though? I don't see an option in the menu
to do that.
Good question I don't think g00r00 has made that an option. As far as I can
see it's a tool to create ANSI art that is then in turn posted. I have a distant memory he spoke about wanting to something with this feature so it could be a kind of collaborative tool for ANSI artists but when many of them went to Facebook he may have opted not to finish it off... I'm honestly not sure if that's correct... but when he returns to the scene to do some further dev works it would be worth following up with him about this :)
I'm trying to be able to call it with a menu command and use it like
pico or nano to create new text files.
OK, the issue will be saving it...
Is there a command for Mystic that lets me do this with the full screen editor?
Not from within the BBS but you can get at it from within MPL
Here's what I found from the docs Gryphon has pulled together
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Function MSGEDITOR(0,Int,Int,Int,Bool,Str,Str) : Bool
Procedure MSGEDITSET(Int,Str)
Procedure MSGEDITGET(Int,Str)
Added 3 new MPL functions: MsgEditor, MsgEditSet, MsgEditGet. These
allow access to the internal Mystic msg editor (line and/or full)
from within MPL. It even allows you to define wrap position and
template to completely make it look like its not the Mystic editor!
As a little hint the MsgEditSet and MsgEditGet stuff could be used
to
post process message text on posts. Like say for example you
wanted
to write a MPL that allows users to add Tag lines, you could do
that
by replacing the "Saving message..." prompt and using those two in
order to modify the text before it is saved by Mystic!
Rather than trying to explain it all, here is an example of all 3:
Var
Lines : Integer = 0;
WrapPos : Integer = 79;
MaxLines : Integer = 200;
Forced : Boolean = False;
Template : String = 'ansiedit';
Subject : String = 'My subject';
Count : Integer;
Begin
MsgEditSet (1, 'this is line 1');
MsgEditSet (2, 'this is line 2!');
Lines := 2;
SetPromptInfo(1, 'MsgTo'); // if template uses &1 for "To:" display
If MsgEditor(0, Lines, WrapPos, MaxLines, Forced, Template, Subject) Then Begin
WriteLn('User selected to save.');
WriteLn('There are ' + Int2Str(Lines) + ' of text in buffer:');
For Count := 1 to Lines Do
WriteLn(MsgEditGet(Count));
Pause;
End Else Begin
WriteLn('User aborted the edit.');
Pause;
End
End
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Best, Paul
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