I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No prompt, I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will erase the Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there until I press Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

I'm sure I accidentally borked something on an update and can't quite figure out where to resolve this issue.

Any help? Can someone walk me through where to look for the problem?

-A.

p.s. honestly, i'm being lazy, holidays got me slammed so I'm out sourcing my troubleshooting labor. Thanks much, -Andy
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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Android8675 to All on Thu Dec 06 2018 07:20:03

I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No prompt, I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will erase the Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there until I press Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

I'm sure I accidentally borked something on an update and can't quite figure out where to resolve this issue.

I believe these are provided by the yesnobar & noyesbar Baja modules, which haven't changed in three years (and haven't really changed in much longer). If the modules aren't built, a built-in prompt is likely invoked instead (unsure).

Do you rebuild all Baja modules when updating every time, just sometimes, or never?

Do you have dupes of either of these in your mods/ directory? (I do, and I can't remember what I did to them or why.)

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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Android8675 to All on Thu Dec 06 2018 07:20 am

I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No prompt, I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will erase the Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there until I press Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

I'm sure I accidentally borked something on an update and can't quite figure out where to resolve this issue.

Any help? Can someone walk me through where to look for the problem?

Do you have a customized ctrl/text.dat file? If so, how is it different from the stock one that matches the version of sbbs you are running?

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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: echicken to Android8675 on Thu Dec 06 2018 11:39 am

I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No
prompt, I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will
erase the Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there
until I press Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

I believe these are provided by the yesnobar & noyesbar Baja modules, which haven't changed in three years (and haven't really changed in much longer). If the modules aren't built, a built-in prompt is likely invoked instead (unsure).

Do you rebuild all Baja modules when updating every time, just sometimes, or never?

Never, but some recent CVS updates touched text.dat, thought I might of borked something there. I checked the yesnobar.src/.bin and noyesbar files, no change, still dated like 2015.

noticing some other things like my answer.msg file isn't displaying, I'm guessing the command shell is messed up, /sigh, i'm looking into it, maybe I'll figure it out.

-A.
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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Digital Man to Android8675 on Thu Dec 06 2018 02:44 pm

I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No prompt,
I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will erase the
Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there until I press
Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

Do you have a customized ctrl/text.dat file? If so, how is it different from the stock one that matches the version of sbbs you are running?

Thought about that, when that file gets updated I run a compare and add missing lines, maybe I put in a LF somewhere that messed u p something. the yesnoquestion lines seem normal, they just call the @exec:yesnobar@ thing...

Just found an extra " in text.dat... /sigh
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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Mon Dec 10 2018 07:45 am

I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No prompt,
I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will erase
the Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there until I
press Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

Do you have a customized ctrl/text.dat file? If so, how is it
different from the stock one that matches the version of sbbs you
are running?

Thought about that, when that file gets updated I run a compare and add missing lines, maybe I put in a LF somewhere that messed u p something. the yesnoquestion lines seem normal, they just call the @exec:yesnobar@ thing...

Just found an extra " in text.dat... /sigh

OK, still an issue... Some other things I've noticed, my avatar's don't appear when reading messages...

ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúú
³ Subj: Yes/No Prompt
³ To : Digital Man
³ From: Android8675 #1
³ Date: Mon Dec 10 2018 07:45 am PST (from now) ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúúúúMIME-decoded plain-text:

That MIME-decoded message is where the avatars should appear I think.

Finally when I get a pause prompt, pressing Q won't abort text output it just keeps going.

Any help appreciated, what did I bork up?

-A.
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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Wed Dec 12 2018 07:46 am

Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Mon Dec 10 2018 07:45 am

I messed something up at the last update, when I get a Yes/No prompt,
I'll press Enter or Y or N to make a choice, and my BBS will erase
the Yes / No bit at the end of the question and sit there until I
press Enter and usually the r esult will be wrong.

Do you have a customized ctrl/text.dat file? If so, how is it
different from the stock one that matches the version of sbbs you
are running?

Thought about that, when that file gets updated I run a compare and add missing lines, maybe I put in a LF somewhere that messed u p something. the yesnoquestion lines seem normal, they just call the @exec:yesnobar@ thing...

Just found an extra " in text.dat... /sigh

OK, still an issue... Some other things I've noticed, my avatar's don't appear when reading messages...

ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúú
³ Subj: Yes/No Prompt
³ To : Digital Man
³ From: Android8675 #1
³ Date: Mon Dec 10 2018 07:45 am PST (from now) ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúúúúMIME-decoded plain-text:

That MIME-decoded message is where the avatars should appear I think.

Finally when I get a pause prompt, pressing Q won't abort text output it just keeps going.

Any help appreciated, what did I bork up?

It sounds like your text.dat is out of whack. You can just replace it with a 0-byte file and the hard-coded default values will be used automatically. Or download (from vert) the text.dat which corresponds with the executable (sbbs) version you're running to get a fresh unmodified version.

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On 12/10/2018 10:45 AM, Android8675 wrote:

Re: Yes/No Prompt

Just found an extra " in text.dat... /sigh
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I usually do stuff like this instead of edit text.dat:

bbs.replace_text(176, "[17CSY: "); // Line 176 SystemPassword

Then I dont have to worry about a customized text.dat being overwritten.

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On 2018 Dec 13 08:27:04, you wrote to Android8675:

I usually do stuff like this instead of edit text.dat:

bbs.replace_text(176, "[17CSY: "); // Line 176 SystemPassword

Then I dont have to worry about a customized text.dat being overwritten.

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login prompt stuff but really don't care to try to hexedit text.dat...

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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: mark lewis to Mindless Automaton on Tue Dec 18 2018 07:12:46

bbs.replace_text(176, "[17CSY: "); // Line 176

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login prompt

Haven't used this in a while, but I imagine it only applies for the duration of the script that's being executed. (It might apply for the duration of the user's session.)

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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: mark lewis to Mindless Automaton on Tue Dec 18 2018 07:12 am

On 2018 Dec 13 08:27:04, you wrote to Android8675:

I usually do stuff like this instead of edit text.dat:

bbs.replace_text(176, "[17CSY: "); // Line 176 SystemPassword

Then I dont have to worry about a customized text.dat being overwritten.

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login prompt stuff but really don't care to try to hexedit text.dat...

Most of the login prompt stuff isn't in the text.dat to begin with. Have you taken a look at exec/login.js? (tip: copy to your mods directory before modifying).

Also: I just use good text editors for my text.dat changes, never touched it with a hex editor.

digital man

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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Digital Man to Android8675 on Wed Dec 12 2018 12:32 pm

Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Wed Dec 12 2018 07:46 am

It sounds like your text.dat is out of whack. You can just replace it with a 0-byte file and the hard-coded default values will be used automatically. Or download (from vert) the text.dat which corresponds with the executable (sbbs) version you're running to get a fresh unmodified version.

digital man

Yeah, I cleared text.dat and the yes/no prompts are working, pulled in text.dat from vert and that seems to of fixed the problem. Now I gotta figure out what's wrong with logon.js, seems to boot me just when getting to the main menu. Probably my modded file is causing issues.

Thanks again DM.
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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: mark lewis to Mindless Automaton on Tue Dec 18 2018 07:12 am

On 2018 Dec 13 08:27:04, you wrote to Android8675:

I usually do stuff like this instead of edit text.dat:

bbs.replace_text(176, "[17CSY: "); // Line 176 SystemPassword

Then I dont have to worry about a customized text.dat being overwritten.

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login prompt stuff but really don't care to try to hexedit text.dat...

I use notepad++ to change text.dat, really isn't that big a deal. Notepad++ has a nice compare plug-in that lets me compare text.dat to any changes that come in from CVS. In this case I guess I messed "something" up. Ah well. I don't really get the bbs.replace_text thing, but...

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On 2018 Dec 18 13:32:16, you wrote to me:

bbs.replace_text(176, "[17CSY: "); // Line 176

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or
logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login
prompt

Haven't used this in a while, but I imagine it only applies for the duration of the script that's being executed. (It might apply for the duration of the user's session.)

i hope it lasts the entire session and i can change it multiple times if desired...

)\/(ark

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On 2018 Dec 18 12:56:46, you wrote to me:

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or
logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login
prompt stuff but really don't care to try to hexedit text.dat...

Most of the login prompt stuff isn't in the text.dat to begin with. Have you taken a look at exec/login.js?

not yet... i've played with logon.js, though... it generates a logon screen which gets displayed, then there's a security level screen, the normal random one but i've modified the naming to rndxxxxx for a huge pile of screens to select from, and i've added another feature from RA where a screen with MON-DAY.* naming format is displayed on those days... eg: 02-14 is displayed on
valentines day, 07-04 is displayed on the 4th of july, etc... i'm going to do one for birthday screens next unless sync alread does a birthday screen...

(tip: copy to your mods directory before modifying).

definitely... we learned that with max's system ;)

Also: I just use good text editors for my text.dat changes, never
touched it with a hex editor.

hummm... i thought there was raw characters in there but i do remember some time back you mentioned something about switching to using \1 (backslash 1) instead of using the raw CTRL-A character... mcedit isn't much of an editor but
it works for me 99% of the time... even allows hex editing but it isn't in line
mode format like a text file... has been very handy when converting my ANSI screens to sync ^A format wearing the .msg extension... especially when converting RA's codes over to sync's codes... manual but it works ;)

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On 2018 Dec 19 07:47:02, you wrote to me:

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or
logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login
prompt stuff but really don't care to try to hexedit text.dat...

I use notepad++ to change text.dat, really isn't that big a deal.

i've used notepad++ on winwhatever for years... until our last winwhatever box quit, anyway... i might be interested if there's a linux version of it... for now i mostly use mcedit because i'm in mc all the time...

Notepad++ has a nice compare plug-in that lets me compare text.dat to
any changes that come in from CVS.

yep... i've used it when working with some realllllly large files... have been using meld on *nix but it can have problems on large files, too...

In this case I guess I messed "something" up. Ah well. I don't really
get the bbs.replace_text thing, but...

just from seeing it that one time, it looks simple... in a .js file, you use it
to replace the line# specified with the provided text instead of editing the file...

eg: bbs.replace_text(175, "furby furby furby!");

would replace, in memory only, whatever text.dat line 175 has with "furby furby
furby!"...

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Re: Yes/No Prompt
By: mark lewis to Android8675 on Wed Dec 19 2018 02:51 pm

On 2018 Dec 19 07:47:02, you wrote to me:

ohhh... that's nice! where do you do this replacement? in login.js or
logon.js or somewhere else earlier? i'm wanting to change the login
prompt stuff but really don't care to try to hexedit text.dat...

I use notepad++ to change text.dat, really isn't that big a deal.

i've used notepad++ on winwhatever for years... until our last winwhatever box quit, anyway... i might be interested if there's a linux version of it... for now i mostly use mcedit because i'm in mc all the time...

Notepad++ has a nice compare plug-in that lets me compare text.dat to any changes that come in from CVS.

yep... i've used it when working with some realllllly large files... have been using meld on *nix but it can have problems on large files, too...

In this case I guess I messed "something" up. Ah well. I don't really get the bbs.replace_text thing, but...

just from seeing it that one time, it looks simple... in a .js file, you use it
to replace the line# specified with the provided text instead of editing the file...

Yup.

eg: bbs.replace_text(175, "furby furby furby!");

would replace, in memory only, whatever text.dat line 175 has with "furby furby
furby!"...

Right. And the text numbers are assigned nice names in load/text.js too.

digital man

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