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  • Lightbar/grid menu setup

    From Alpha@21:4/158 to All on Monday, February 10, 2020 02:41:55
    I've got Mystic's lightbar menus working great, but when I set the menu type
    to "lightbar/grid" and set the grid key to the intended menu IDs--it doesn't work. Lightbar doesn't move.

    Am I missing something, or is there a trick to this? Thanks!

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card & Claw BBS | Analog Gaming: Board Games, RPGs (21:4/158)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Alpha on Sunday, February 09, 2020 23:15:16
    I've got Mystic's lightbar menus working great, but when I set the menu type to "lightbar/grid" and set the grid key to the intended menu
    IDs--it doesn't work. Lightbar doesn't move.

    Am I missing something, or is there a trick to this? Thanks!

    It could be broken I'll give it a test!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Alpha on Sunday, February 09, 2020 23:34:50
    I've got Mystic's lightbar menus working great, but when I set the menu type to "lightbar/grid" and set the grid key to the intended menu
    IDs--it doesn't work. Lightbar doesn't move.

    Am I missing something, or is there a trick to this? Thanks!

    I found an issue and it was a really quick fix, so I am updating the
    pre-alpha versions for Linux and Windows now that includes the fix.

    Thank you for the report!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)
  • From Analog@21:2/123 to Alpha on Sunday, February 09, 2020 22:09:10
    I've got Mystic's lightbar menus working great, but when I set the menu type to "lightbar/grid" and set the grid key to the intended menu
    IDs--it doesn't work. Lightbar doesn't move.

    Yes there is an issue. The ID is a not what you need to set it to as that
    won't work. It's the actual item count number in the list of items.

    I had this same problem. Say you add items, delete a few or insert a few so
    the IDs are not in numerical order in the list:

    |20|15ÚÄ|16|08´ |08De|07ad|15be|07a|08tz b|07b|15s
    |08ÀÄÙÃÄ¿ |08:>.|07A|08rk |0710|08:|07101|08/|0714|08.
    |04þ |08À|20|15Ä|16|08Ù |08:>.|10A|02gn |1046|08:|101|08/|10123|08.
    |04A|07n|15al|07o|08g |08:>.|12F|04sx |1221|08:|122|08/|12123|08. |15.|04p|07HENOM|15. |08:>.|15S|07ci |1577|08:|151|08/|15131|08. |04°±°|08±ÛÛÜÝ|08:>.|11T|03qw |111337|08:|113|08/|1113|08.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: deadbeatz.org (21:2/123)
  • From Analog@21:2/123 to Analog on Sunday, February 09, 2020 22:12:50
    I had this same problem. Say you add items, delete a few or insert a few so the IDs are not in numerical order in the list:

    Meant to save not send last but here is the example:

    BRE ID=1
    Lord ID=2
    FE ID=4
    Darkness ID=6

    FE is ID=4 but it's item #3. So you need to set the grid move to 3 not 4 if
    you were seleting down from LORD. I think this is a bug and maybe that's what g00r00 was referring to.

    Hope this makes sense. Spend many minutes figuring this one out. I ended just blowing away the menu and inserting 30 entries before editing any of them so they were both sequential IDs and sequential in the list.

    |20|15ÚÄ|16|08´ |08De|07ad|15be|07a|08tz b|07b|15s
    |08ÀÄÙÃÄ¿ |08:>.|07A|08rk |0710|08:|07101|08/|0714|08.
    |04þ |08À|20|15Ä|16|08Ù |08:>.|10A|02gn |1046|08:|101|08/|10123|08.
    |04A|07n|15al|07o|08g |08:>.|12F|04sx |1221|08:|122|08/|12123|08. |15.|04p|07HENOM|15. |08:>.|15S|07ci |1577|08:|151|08/|15131|08. |04°±°|08±ÛÛÜÝ|08:>.|11T|03qw |111337|08:|113|08/|1113|08.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: deadbeatz.org (21:2/123)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to Analog on Monday, February 10, 2020 07:49:26
    Brilliant. Thank you (and love this community).

    g00r00, let us know if that is in fact the way it should be, or if that's the bug you were referring to?

    Cheers,

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card & Claw BBS | Analog Gaming: Board Games, RPGs (21:4/158)
  • From Captain Obvious@21:1/157 to Analog on Monday, February 10, 2020 11:03:42
    On 09 Feb 2020, Analog said the following...

    I had this same problem. Say you add items, delete a few or insert a few so the IDs are not in numerical order in the list:

    Same. When I was messing around with lightbars I ended up manually editing
    the menu files and change the IDs so that they would be in numerical order.

    -=>Richard Miles<=-
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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Shadowscope BBS | bbs.shadowscope.com | Temple, GA (21:1/157)
  • From metalhead@21:1/113 to Captain Obvious on Monday, February 10, 2020 14:26:55
    Same. When I was messing around with lightbars I ended up manually
    editing the menu files and change the IDs so that they would be in numerical order.

    I'm having an issue with Lightbar/Grid at the moment; the arrow keys are not working at all unless I set the menu to Lightbar (not Lightbar/Grid.)

    Is that the issue you guys were talking about? If so, please explain how did you resolve it?

    I apologize - I wish Mystic had a Refer# to find the source of a thread - for some reason, I'm not finding the original message in this thread.

    I read something about editing the .mnu file and changing something - but I don't get it - those numbers don't make sense to me.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Alcoholiday / Est. 1995 / alco.bbs.io (21:1/113)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to metalhead on Monday, February 10, 2020 20:45:50
    I'm having an issue with Lightbar/Grid at the moment; the arrow keys are not working at all unless I set the menu to Lightbar (not Lightbar/Grid.)

    Is that the issue you guys were talking about? If so, please explain how did you resolve it?

    That's exactly the issue I'm having. g00r00 mentioned it possibly being a bug... I've just gone back to Lightbar until it's resolved.

    I had also (incorrectly) assumed that Grid IDs mapped to the Menu item
    IDs, but it looks like they actually refer to the ordered number of each
    item. I actually assign my items using X/Y values, so the ordering trips me
    up.

    Was thinking one way to remove ambiguity would be to have a field for each
    menu item and assign it an order ID numeric value...?

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card & Claw BBS | Analog Gaming: Board Games, RPGs (21:4/158)
  • From metalhead@21:1/113 to Alpha on Monday, February 10, 2020 16:09:39
    That's exactly the issue I'm having. g00r00 mentioned it possibly being a bug... I've just gone back to Lightbar until it's resolved.

    Alpha/Captain Obvious:

    I tried changing the IDs in main.mnu, but it was a losing battle for me.

    I resolved it by deleting all the commands, then inserting them back in 1 at
    a time, inserting each additional command AFTER the previous one. That did
    the trick, and I'm able to use LIGHTBAR/GRID again.

    Hooray!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Alcoholiday / Est. 1995 / alco.bbs.io (21:1/113)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Alpha on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 14:01:23
    That's exactly the issue I'm having. g00r00 mentioned it possibly being a bug... I've just gone back to Lightbar until it's resolved.

    Yes, there was one but its fixed in the latest releases.

    I had also (incorrectly) assumed that Grid IDs mapped to the Menu item IDs, but it looks like they actually refer to the ordered number of each item. I actually assign my items using X/Y values, so the ordering trips me up.

    No, thats not (supposed to be) true. They use the ID. If they didn't when you insert a new menu item it'd completely destroy your menu and you'd have to redo all of the jumps. It was just messed up in the A44 build but fixed in A45.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to g00r00 on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 02:01:08
    Yes, there was one but its fixed in the latest releases.

    I'm running 2020/02/09, and it doesn't appear to be fixed... Is there a later version than this?

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card & Claw BBS | Analog Gaming: Board Games, RPGs (21:4/158)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Alpha on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 22:12:10
    Yes, there was one but its fixed in the latest releases.

    I'm running 2020/02/09, and it doesn't appear to be fixed... Is there a later version than this?

    Yes. Or there should have been. I'll go compile new versions right now and put them up just in case I somehow screwed up last time. And if you still
    have problems after upgrading to that let me know.

    I added a "testgrid.mnu" to the default installation too and a link to it
    from the demos menu.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to g00r00 on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 05:27:08
    Fantastic! I'll grab the new version and test when it's up--thank you.

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card & Claw BBS | Analog Gaming: Board Games, RPGs (21:4/158)