Subj : [Mystic] GE, MPL, and USES
To   : Digital Avatar
From : Accession
Date : Sun Sep 29 2019 09:05:56

Hello Digital,

On Sat Sep 28 2019 10:16:10, Digital Avatar wrote to Accession:

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

Yep, and as I said.. I think there was someone else somewhat recently that 
mentioned those fields missing also.

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

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

While you type GotoXY however many times, I just use a pipe code in the ansi 
(or string) (pipe)[Xxx(pipe)[Yyy. So it's no more difficult, and maybe even a 
little easier seeing as though you just have to redraw the screen while logged 
into the board to test and see if it works.. rather than re-compiling your MPL 
and possibly having to restart MIS. *shrug*

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

Right! Mine was actually a pause was mysteriously added into my last callers. 
It would list the first node, then pause. Hit enter and it would list the rest 
of the nodes in the proper location just fine. I had to actually add a PO MCI 
code in some of the last caller display strings.. which I've _never_ had to do 
before.

Regards,
Nick

.... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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