I am writing a p2p based BBS but am having trouble with ANSI art.
reddit / bbs

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InevitableAd6135 · 2023-08-08 01:29

I have an ansi art image I have chosen for my main menu, but I'm
trying to overlay a menu on top of it. For those of you more
experienced with BBS, could you explain to me how to do this in
python?

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toadstoolpp · 2023-08-08 02:18

maybe you can do it by saving the ANSI as an animation and putting a
character in the ANSI animation where you want the menu to begin it's
display

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InevitableAd6135 · 2023-08-08 02:47

Thanks for your reply. The problem with that is people would have to
interact with it dynamically.

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toadstoolpp · 2023-08-08 02:49

it was a poor solution

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shurato99 · 2023-08-08 06:44

Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do.  I use ansi
backgrounds, with menus overlayed on topy of them.  Is that what you
want?  I just display the first image, then the menu.  I have spaces
in the menu and use light bars, but it seems similar.  check out
[https://shsbbs.net/bbs.html](https://shsbbs.net/bbs.html) or telnet
to [shsbbs.net](https://shsbbs.net).

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InevitableAd6135 · 2023-08-08 17:28

Yes this is exactly what I want. I'm trying to do it in python.

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InevitableAd6135 · 2023-08-08 20:40

Are you able to do this with python? I would love to see how. My
background is more in networking.

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shurato99 · 2023-08-08 20:47

You should just be able to display the ansis on top of eachother
however you normally would.  I don't know any python, I just display
the ansis.

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InevitableAd6135 · 2023-08-08 20:49

So, I'm trying to use the curses library to display a menu on top of
the ansi. But I'm having great difficulty as it will not let me
specify the background. [Here](https://pastecode.io/s/xcb8p3qw) is
what I have written, for anyone interested. This is just a small
portion of the overall code.

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UCN_cyberstrator · 2023-08-10 15:02

are you using that ftelnet to achieve the html version?

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syswraith · 2023-08-10 15:42

Link your BBS please :) it sounds interesting

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shurato99 · 2023-08-10 20:08

Yep.  I run a proxy locally (websockify, not ftelnetproxy) and run the
java locally.

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shurato99 · 2023-08-13 03:03

If you look at the implementation of ftelnet that I use (thanks to
Opicron for all of the work) it does #5, if (again) I understand what
you mean.