I have created a few custom themes for my BBS. However, only the 'default'
and my first custom theme show up to select, my 2nd and 3rd do not show up.
I have created the text file by copying the 'default.txt' in the data
directory and naming it the same name as I set in the theme editor.

any clues?

SHIFT838
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On 23 Sep 2019, Shift838 said the following...

I have created a few custom themes for my BBS. However, only the 'default' and my first custom theme show up to select, my 2nd and 3rd do not show up. I have created the text file by copying the 'default.txt'
in the data directory and naming it the same name as I set in the theme editor.

any clues?

Clues? Yes indeed, can I actually help you beyond that? No. Wish I could, but what I can do is point you here: https://bit.ly/2mudlFN

Paul talked about copying more than just default.txt into your new custom
theme dir, and also a bit about making those theme selections available to users and in what way. i.e., allowing them to choose, when, or if they just
get a theme you choose. I seem to recall something about setting security or group settings about it too, but I only glossed over all of that with a
promise to myself to revisit later.

I hope that helps :)

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So what I noticed is that since I am trying to have 80 column ANSI, 80 column text and 40 column text themes I am asking if the user want's ANSI or ASCII when they connect. If you choose ANSI then you only see my ANSI themes
within the Account options. If you choose ASCII you see them all.

Still working on grasping all the functionality and how Mystic works.

SHIFT838
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On 24 Sep 2019, Shift838 said the following...

So what I noticed is that since I am trying to have 80 column ANSI, 80 column text and 40 column text themes I am asking if the user want's
ANSI or ASCII when they connect. If you choose ANSI then you only see
my ANSI themes within the Account options. If you choose ASCII you see them all.

You have reached the limit of my technical prowess on this front ;)

Still working on grasping all the functionality and how Mystic works.

Me too :)

But there's a lot of REALLY smart people here so you're in good company :)

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On 24 Sep 2019, Shift838 said the following...

So what I noticed is that since I am trying to have 80 column ANSI, 80 column text and 40 column text themes I am asking if the user want's

Wait... Can you do that? Or are you limited to 80x24 still these days?

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Re: Re: custom theme not showing
By: tallship to Shift838 on Mon Sep 23 2019 08:33 pm

Wait... Can you do that? Or are you limited to 80x24 still these days?

Your not limited - I use iTerm on a MAC and have 217x52 :)

I am using synchronet though...
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I've currently got four themes for my board (not all of them finished).
Here's my setup:

I've created a new /mystic/themes directory for my themes. Inside that I have
a separate directory for each theme, i.e.,

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[OK, dunno what's going on with my previous two attempts, but ignore them.]

I've currently got four themes for my board (not all of them finished).
Here's my setup:

I've created a new /mystic/themes directory for my themes. Inside that I have
a separate directory for each theme, i.e.,

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As should be apparent, I'm having difficulty composing a reply.

I'm working in a Linux terminal ssh'ed into my RPi, running the Mystic
client. I'm attempting to reply to a post. I've composed my post in a text editor and am attempting to paste it into the editor window. Result: the
editor quits unexpectedly and a truncated partial post gets sent out.

Is it just me?

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I've currently got four themes for my board (not all of them finished).
Here's my setup:

I've created a new /mystic/themes directory for my themes. Inside that I have
a separate directory for each theme, i.e.:

mystic/themes/a/
mystic/themes/h/
mystic/themes/m/
mystic/themes/orig/

Each of the above has subdirs m/ s/ and t/ for each of the text, menu and script paths. E.g.:

mystic/themes/a/m/
mystic/themes/a/s/
mystic/themes/a/t/

Run mystic -cfg and select Editors/Theme/Prompt Editor. Here I have an entry for each of my themes.

Filename Description
-------- -----------
default HUMONGOUS
original Original Mystic Theme
ASCII Plain Text (ASCII)
mobile Small form menu for mobile users

Selecting the first, I have the following settings:

File name default
Description HUMONGOUS
Text Path /mystic/themes/h/t/
Menu Path /mystic/themes/h/m/
Script Path /mystic/themes/h/s/

I ran into a problem where there's a rather small character limit for each of the above paths, which is why I had to resort to single-letter names.

After that, I created the menus in an ANSI editor, and then used the Editors/Menu Editor to define them. I see all four choices at my login screen.

The four text files, ASCII.txt, mobile.txt, default.txt and original.txt are all in /mystic/data.

You can take a look at jenandcal.familyds.org:2323

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OK, never mind.

Turns out the text I was pasting in had lines starting with / which of course invokes the editor's menu. The whole thing was scrolling by so fast, I
couldn't see what was going on.

PEBCAK.

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i put in a request to the Mystic GODS probably 2 years ago, maybe a bit
longer about support 40 column themes. They answered fairly quickly with
basic 40 column support, but if I recall the message editor is still 80
column.

SHIFT838
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Same exact way I have done it as well. i have a /mystic/themes/themename and
I copied all the default theme items to the txt, menus and scripts area. I then copioed the default.txt file in the data directory and renamed them to match the theme names.

then you have to do your mods.

SHIFT838
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On 24 Sep 2019 at 08:18p, nathanael pondered and said...

As should be apparent, I'm having difficulty composing a reply.

I suspect it's because you are using the / in your reply and it may be triggering the menu in mystic, it happens to me also, pressing the / key
twice removes the pop up Mystic menu, That's my guess..

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On 24 Sep 2019 at 08:21p, nathanael pondered and said...

I've currently got four themes for my board (not all of them finished). Here's my setup:

I've created a new /mystic/themes directory for my themes. Inside that I have a separate directory for each theme, i.e.:

Great summary of how to do it. Also critical to have different theme file
names saved in DATA directory as you mentioned. Copying default.txt and
saving it as newtheme.txt etc. is a good way to start then you can customise prompts etc. as you set up the themes using the approach you describe.

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Hello Avon!

On 25 Sep 2019, Avon said the following...

I suspect it's because you are using the / in your reply and it may be triggering the menu in mystic, it happens to me also, pressing the / key twice removes the pop up Mystic menu, That's my guess..

Do you know if it is it possible to change the menu hotkey to something else than "/"? I triggered a Zmodem upload by accident when trying to paste some paths a while ago. :-D

Best regards
Zip

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On 25 Sep 2019, Avon said the following...

On 24 Sep 2019 at 08:21p, nathanael pondered and said...

I've currently got four themes for my board (not all of them finished Here's my setup:

I've created a new /mystic/themes directory for my themes. Inside tha have a separate directory for each theme, i.e.:

Great summary of how to do it. Also critical to have different theme file names saved in DATA directory as you mentioned. Copying default.txt and saving it as newtheme.txt etc. is a good way to start then you can customise prompts etc. as you set up the themes using the approach you describe.

I too am running 3 Themes now, anyone wanting to do this just watch Avon's video, it makes it simple to do, I setup a Themes Directory inside that I
have 2 folders for the non default themes, in my data directory I have 3 different default.txt's one is the ASCII theme which has been hatched, and
the other is a Image BBS theme which mimics teh Image BBS for the C64, that
one is not done yet but I will finish it one day, the next theme I want to do is a CNet Amiga Theme.. I'll get there one day! LOL

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I suspect it's because you are using the / in your reply and it may be

Yep, that's exactly what was happening. I had several lines starting with a
/. Deleting the / cured the problem.

Thanks for the reply.

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