Subj : [Mystic] GE, MPL, and USES
To   : Accession
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Sat Sep 28 2019 10:16:11

on 28 Sep 2019, Accession said...
 
 Ac> Holy sheeyat batman! I set my board back up after a long hiatus back in
 Ac> '04, and am fairly certain I've known you for most of that time. So for
 Ac> ~15 years, I have never seen you show so much interest in setting up a
 Ac> BBS. Not really sure why I brought it up, but it's pretty cool to see,
 Ac> to be honest. When do we get to come troll your oneliners and message
 Ac> areas? ;)

I've wanted to run a board for some time, but there was always a reason not
to. After buying an RPi I was able to use it as a development environment for
the board, so things have progressed swiftly. I'm really only able to work on
it on weekends, so it's taking a while. Also, I've convinced myself that I
should run it on AWS (probably under Devuan) since I can't stand the noise of
the fan I bought for the RPi4. Overall I'd say it'll be up in a few weeks.

 Ac> As for the above, is it just in this newuserapp.mpx you're seeing this
 Ac> stuff missing? I was led to believe newuserapp.mpx was like a starter

No, I'm saying that the user variables in question don't have corresponding
variables that can be accessed from MPL by invoking 'Uses USER'. I know since
I checked the source code for the last open source release. It's possible
some of these things were added more recently (in which case it's a matter of
trolling the WhatsNew of subsequent versions to find them), but for shit like
the user's phone# and zipcode? Come on.

 Ac> Unfortunately, I've never been able to grasp MPL. I've been able to edit
 Ac> existing ones to make them do what I want, but maybe since I never had
 Ac> much pascal experience, or the severe lack of documentation for a n00b
 Ac> to be able to understand anything, I never got into it. Every mod I've

If you're not into programming then it'll probably look like meaningless crap
to you. It's not the language, I can tell you that much. I never used Pascal
at all. I was always a C guy. Nevertheless, the syntax is pretty easy to
grasp. Just reading some of the example MPLs out there is enough to get an
idea of what the rules are, so it's pretty rare that I have to look to the
documentation to figure out how something's done.

 Ac> to be able to understand anything, I never got into it. Every mod I've
 Ac> ever made have been menu editing, with lots of MCI codes for X/Y
 Ac> coordinate positioning. ;)

MCI codes for positioning? Ew. That shit's the bane of my existence. GotoXY
for the win.

 Ac> After the last update, I had a couple questions that have still been
 Ac> unanswered. Either nobody else using Mystic has run into the same issue,
 Ac> or I'm the only person going about doing things the way I have been and
 Ac> it's my own damn fault. *shrug*

Well, that's like that pause on connection I ran into earlier... nobody
besides Maskreet's replied to that. *shrug*

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