Subj : Re: Idea inspired by Mweeby
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 01:06 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
Rob,

Talking to Mweeby in depth about the text-to-speech thing has given me
an idea that would bennefit him and other blind people as well as be of
use to the rest of us too.

To the best of my knowledge, regardless of shell, one text.dat is globally
enforced. I think the structure below would allow for each shell to have
it's own text.dat that aside from being a modding godsend, would allow
blind people to not have to put up with extended ASCII while the rest
of us can enjoy any 313373 nice looking mods that those enclinded might
choose to create.

If you implimented this, say as a v4 feature, i'd be more than happy to
assist Mweeby in making a "Blind User Text-To-Speech" shell and also give
it to you so Synchronet can natively support text-to-speech without the
Sysop needing to go out of his or her way to accomodate blind users.

Example below:

C:\SBBS\SHELLS\

C:\SBBS\SHELLS\RENEGADE\
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\WILDCAT\
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\SCLASSIC\
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\SNOVICE\


C:\SBBS\SHELLS\RENEGADE\TEXT\ (ans and asc, etc.. files)
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\RENEGADE\DATA\ (text.dat and anything else required here) 
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\RENEGADE\BIN\  (*.bin files as opposed to cluttering \EXEC\) 
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\RENEGADE\JS\   (*.js files as opposed to cluttering \EXEC\) 
C:\SBBS\SHELLS\RENEGADE\SRC\  (*.src files as opposed to cluttering \EXEC\)

If you allow for the system variable of:

SET BAJA="BIN"

Then in theory, Synchronet could read that and when you run "baja logon.src"
from C:\SBBS\SHELLS\ANYTHING-AT-ALL\SRC\ it would compile and automatically
place it in C:\SBBS\SHELLS\ANYTHING-AT-ALL\BIN\.

This would cut down on directory clutter and make things more efficient and
easier to find.

As for the GUI for "Edit Text Strings" just have that section extend out to
another menu that simply lists the shell name as per whatever you have 
configured and when you click on that, it'll open the proper text.dat
file.

Aside from Rob, what to the rest of you think?

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