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    From The Godfather@21:1/165 to All on Thu Sep 17 21:54:34 2020
    .. or maybe a DOSBox question also.

    So I'm trying to use the TDraw Animations to transition a few ansi's
    using the basic pyramid/swipe/verticle blind etc... features. It
    appears the ansi's pull up just fine and the animations work within
    mystic .. however .. not without the "yes, no, continuous" prompt every
    few lines displayed.

    In addition, the thedraw created animation seems to ignore {pipe}PO PA
    and baud speeds to slow the ansi down a bit. I'm trying to create a bit
    of animation between a few screens, with a pause between each screen,
    and obviously without a pause during the animation. I also tried using
    the pipe codes within the menu GT feature .. didn't work. Is using
    the draw animation possible "out of the box" with Mystic? Or do I need a thedraw type mod to get this to work?

    I'm using an ansi transition mod by Acid for now, but have other
    purposes for thedraw animations in mind for future projects .. so wanted
    to see what steps I'm missing.

    Also .. I'm using DOS Box with Windows 10 to use tdraw, and the screen
    size is literally 3" by 3" in size. I can't figure out how to make the terminal window larger. Can someone help a noob with DOSbox with some
    quick tips?

    Thanks!

    -tG

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Underground [@] theunderground.us:10023 <-port (21:1/165)
  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to The Godfather on Fri Sep 18 08:26:26 2020
    134
    So I'm trying to use the TDraw Animations to transition a few ansi's
    using the basic pyramid/swipe/verticle blind etc... features. It
    appears the ansi's pull up just fine and the animations work within
    mystic .. however .. not without the "yes, no, continuous" prompt every few lines displayed.

    In addition, the thedraw created animation seems to ignore {pipe}PO PA
    and baud speeds to slow the ansi down a bit. I'm trying to create a bit of animation between a few screens, with a pause between each screen,
    and obviously without a pause during the animation. I also tried using the pipe codes within the menu GT feature .. didn't work. Is using
    the draw animation possible "out of the box" with Mystic? Or do I need a thedraw type mod to get this to work?

    I'm using an ansi transition mod by Acid for now, but have other
    purposes for thedraw animations in mind for future projects .. so wanted to see what steps I'm missing.

    Also .. I'm using DOS Box with Windows 10 to use tdraw, and the screen size is literally 3" by 3" in size. I can't figure out how to make the terminal window larger. Can someone help a noob with DOSbox with some quick tips?

    Thanks!

    Gosh, I know this wasn't your actual question - but have you played with
    xqtr's ANSI animation program? It works great, is current[ish] and he uses Mystic so... the formatting is more up our alley, being Mystic people, than
    the older TheDraw option.

    Anyway if you haven't checked it out yet, you can find ANSI-wipe on Another Dr01d or FSXnet files...



    |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
    |08.........

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: American Pi BBS (21:2/150)
  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to paulie420 on Fri Sep 18 12:15:10 2020
    Anyway if you haven't checked it out yet, you can find ANSI-wipe on Another Dr01d or FSXnet files...

    I'm using the ANSI-wipe mod on my BBS now for the main menu effect
    you've seen. However, T-draw allows for basically movie creations with
    ANSI, and also allow for some pretty custom x/y coordinate type work
    without using pipe codes .. kind of an old school coders friend. So it's
    a bit more then just screen transition features I want to get
    re-acquainted with as Mystic's menu system is so powerful that I think
    quite a bit of a few ideas can be created without writing MPL's or PY
    scripts.. I know it can be done as I've seen it on other BBS's .. but
    .. I'm running into the pause issues so thought I'd see if someone knew
    how.

    -tG

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Underground [@] theunderground.us:10023 <-port (21:1/165)
  • From Solaris@21:2/1202 to The Godfather on Sun Sep 20 16:25:14 2020
    137
    In addition, the thedraw created animation seems to ignore {pipe}PO PA
    TheDraw "wraps" the code when animation is used so there are a couple of
    thinks to try
    1: when saving the ansi choose the hight and width and use 24x78 .
    2: open the ansi file with a text editor like notepad for windows and at the end of the ansi code you should see a 255 line inject you Pipe DA or pipe PA just above it

    Pipe PA
    [0m[255

    save it and try let me know if that does not work

    Also .. I'm using DOS Box with Windows 10 to use tdraw, and the screen size is literally 3" by 3" in size. I can't figure out how to make the

    so when you launch DOS box type the following command

    z:\mount c: c:\
    press enter
    press alt+enter to go full screen

    |08Sys|05op So|13laRis
    |13 Err|05or 12|0802 and |10Er|02ror |104|080|024 B|08BS !
    |15FSXnet HuB 2 T|07holian A|08DmiN !


    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Error 1202 BBS (21:2/1202)
  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Solaris on Sun Sep 20 20:13:38 2020
    TheDraw "wraps" the code when animation is used so there are a couple of thinks to try
    1: when saving the ansi choose the hight and width and use 24x78 .
    2: open the ansi file with a text editor like notepad for windows and at the end of the ansi code you should see a 255 line inject you Pipe DA or pipe PA just above it
    Pipe PA
    [0m[255
    save it and try let me know if that does not work
    so when you launch DOS box type the following command
    z:\mount c: c:\
    press enter
    press alt+enter to go full screen

    Sysop SolaRis

    Solaris,

    Sweet man, thank you! I'll give it a shot on Tuesday while my kids are
    at school! I appreciate the help! I'd love to get tDraw animations
    working without the pauses. I'll be on this as soon as I have a minute
    and will "report" back to you!!

    Thanks again my friend.

    -tG

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Underground [@] theunderground.us:10023 <-port (21:1/165)
  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Solaris on Tue Sep 22 09:09:04 2020
    1: when saving the ansi choose the hight and width and use 24x78 .
    2: open the ansi file with a text editor like notepad for windows and at the end of the ansi code you should see a 255 line inject you Pipe DA or pipe PA just above it
    Pipe PA
    [0m[255

    So couple of things. During the "save" process of tDraw, I only see a
    means of saving the file to 78 characters wide, but do not see a 24
    line limit setting/option.

    I tried adding the |PO at the beginning of the ANSI within a text
    editor and it took the animation away.

    Didn't see a [0m[255 line at the end of the ANSI file so just selected
    one of the last codes within the file .. but it didn't pause. So ..

    I'm assuming I'm still doing something wrong. Here is the code within a
    text editor. I did a search for [255 and there was not any; likely as a
    result of how I saved it.....

    [22;1H

    -tG

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Underground [@] theunderground.us:10023 <-port (21:1/165)
  • From Solaris@21:2/1202 to The Godfather on Wed Sep 23 07:48:26 2020
    137
    I tried adding the at the beginning of the ANSI within a text

    Dont but anything in the start of the text . Just put a pipe PA or pipe DE at the very end of the code.

    your right you cant change the save size in the draw . so just save using the the defaults . for non animated ansi open the file with note pad and delete
    any blank lines between the main body and the very last text [255 .

    I the animated ansi I have I just put the pipe codes at the very end and it worked so try that and let me know ...

    |08Sys|05op So|13laRis
    |13 Err|05or 12|0802 and |10Er|02ror |104|080|024 B|08BS !
    |15FSXnet HuB 2 T|07holian A|08DmiN !


    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Error 1202 BBS (21:2/1202)