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  • Trouble with random ANSI display

    From Don Epi@21:4/167 to All on Sat Jan 22 19:28:20 2022
    Hi! Ive got a little trouble here...

    I had a nice feature in The Vault BBS (a curated art gallery... When you
    press "+" a random ANSI file is displayed... of course, I did it putting 30
    or so files with the same name: ANSIFILE.ans and ANSIFILE.an1, ANSIFILE.an2, etc... so Mystic display them randomly...

    Well it doesnt work anymore! It displays only two different ones (the same) skipping nearly 30 of them... curious, because it worked!!

    Do you please give me some advice? Whats wrong now? Or at least, what COULD
    be wrong :)

    Thanks!!!

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: The Vault BBS (21:4/167)
  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Don Epi on Sat Jan 22 21:37:26 2022
    On 22 Jan 2022, Don Epi said the following...

    Hi! Ive got a little trouble here...

    I had a nice feature in The Vault BBS (a curated art gallery... When you press "+" a random ANSI file is displayed... of course, I did it putting

    Check the update file with Mystic A47 I believe there is a change to how ansi's are displayed.. I think you have the change the naming structure..

    I have a few myself which need to be done too...

    Al

    ... The person who snores the loudest will fall asleep first

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (21:4/131)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Don Epi on Sun Jan 23 16:06:07 2022
    On 22 Jan 2022 at 07:28p, Don Epi pondered and said...

    press "+" a random ANSI file is displayed... of course, I did it putting 30 or so files with the same name: ANSIFILE.ans and ANSIFILE.an1, ANSIFILE.an2, etc... so Mystic display them randomly...

    Well it doesnt work anymore! It displays only two different ones (the same) skipping nearly 30 of them... curious, because it worked!!

    yes there is a new file naming convention implemented.

    [snip]

    - The old random display file system is gone so if you have the .ana, .anb
    type files you will need to update them to use the "new" system that is
    being brought over from the Mystic 2 build.

    + New display file random system. If for example the base filename of the
    display file is "test" then you can make any additional files with a .#
    after the base filename and one of them will be selected randomly. The
    old system had a limit of 36 random ANSIs per display file but this
    system has no limits. For example:

    test.ans
    test.1.ans
    test.2.ans
    test.10.ans

    Mystic will randomly select and display one of the above files.

    [snip]

    Hope that helps :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)