Hey all,

If you are looking for a simple way to show ansi art, say as part of a
logon sequence, I've written a small program to assist. It runs as a
native door program when using Talisman (or for any BBS that can run a
door, really).

It's called artVu. It's simple:

- loads a random ansi file from a directory
- you can set display speed, which works well for long pieces of art
- it works in 80 col and 132 col modes (passed from command line)
- you can scroll through the art manually
- you can view sauce info

Talisman doesn't have an internal art viewer like Mystic does, so hoping
this can fill a need.

If anyone would be willing to test and provide feedback, that'd be great!

It's written in Go, and it's best to build from source (instructions are
in the repo), but there is also a /release folder with some binaries for
Linux and Rpi. I'll add Windows later today.

However, I've only tested on Linux 64 so far... :)

https://github.com/robbiew/go-artvu

Cheers,



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Hello Alpha!

15 Apr 21 08:19, you wrote to all:

If anyone would be willing to test and provide feedback, that'd be
great!

I'm willing... if:

It's written in Go, and it's best to build from source (instructions
are in the repo), but there is also a /release folder with some
binaries for Linux and Rpi. I'll add Windows later today.

Is it possible for a 32bit version for windows? I use Windows 10/32
as it's easier to run the doors that way. :) Talisman setup is on port
4323 over here (telnet) and 4322 for ssh. Even have the gopher part going
on 7070, but I've only just started with that.

Shawn


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Is it possible for a 32bit version for windows? I use Windows 10/32
as it's easier to run the doors that way. :) Talisman setup is on
port
4323 over here (telnet) and 4322 for ssh. Even have the gopher part
going
on 7070, but I've only just started with that.

I added go-artvu-win-386.exe to the release folder. Would be great to see
if that works! Just clone the repo and copy that file to the root, and
launch with that... Fingers crossed!





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I added go-artvu-win-386.exe to the release folder. Would be great to
see
if that works! Just clone the repo and copy that file to the root, and launch with that... Fingers crossed!

I don't know how you implemented it, but if it just outputs to STDIO,
that wont work on windows without some sort of "doorway" program that
copys stdio to a socket.

Andrew

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I don't know how you implemented it, but if it just outputs to STDIO,
that wont work on windows without some sort of "doorway" program that
copys stdio to a socket.

Yeah, I know nothing about Windows systems. I just cross-compiled, so if there's something special that needs to be done with os.Stdout, with
sockets, well, it wasn't done :)




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If you are looking for a simple way to show ansi art, say as part of a logon sequence, I've written a small program to assist. It runs as a native door program when using Talisman (or for any BBS that can run a door, really).

Just spun over and took a gander at Artvu. Its sweet, Alpha! Great job, I think you'll have a bunch of sysops running this - would be a great addition to an RG BBS and any sysOp wanting randoANSIs without ugly templates taking up lines.

Its really nice! Thanks, Alpha!!



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Alpha wrote to apam <=-

Yeah, I know nothing about Windows systems. I just cross-compiled, so
if there's something special that needs to be done with os.Stdout, with sockets, well, it wasn't done :)

LOL I will just leave that on the todo list then. Thanks anyway. :)

Shawn

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Yeah, I know nothing about Windows systems. I just cross-compiled, so
if there's something special that needs to be done with os.Stdout,
with sockets, well, it wasn't done :)

:) I'm pretty sure there is a program you can use on windows to do it,
and I think it's called "Doorway". If not, I don't think such a thing
would be all that hard to code.

Do you have a library your using for go? Like to handle your ansi
routines? I don't think it would be too hard to add support for writing
to a socket if you're interested.

The way I do it with magidoor, is basically wrapping the write commands
like:

if socket = -1 then
write to stdio
else
write to socket
endif

and same with reading.

Andrew

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Do you have a library your using for go? Like to handle your ansi
routines? I don't think it would be too hard to add support for
writing
to a socket if you're interested.

Go handles most of that natively: I just open the file, scan it to a
buffer, and write it to stdout line by line. I use a couple helper files
for ansi around color and cursor commands, really just shortcut and I'm probably going to drop those depedencies.

I'd love to add socket support!

if socket = -1 then
write to stdio
else
write to socket
endif

That's be pretty easy to add... There is a Windows library for go, I
wonder if it'd be in there -- https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sys/windows

I'll look into it, thanks!



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Yeah, I know nothing about Windows systems. I just cross-compiled, so if there's something special that needs to be done with os.Stdout,
with sockets, well, it wasn't done :)

:) I'm pretty sure there is a program you can use on windows to do it,
and I think it's called "Doorway". If not, I don't think such a thing would be all that hard to code.

I don't know about the coding stuff; but I do know there IS a 'doorway' that Throwback suggests for passing terminal apps to ....



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