Subj : Mystic Suggestions
To   : G00r00
From : Black Panther
Date : Mon Mar 29 2021 12:43 pm

Hi g00r00,

I hope you and your family are doing well. 

I've got a couple of suggestions for additions to Mystic, particularly in the MPL end of things. 

1. Would be possible to add a function in MPL similar to the IsNumber function in FreePascal?

For now, I have written a function that does something close to what I need. If I'm going to be taking user input and will need to Str2Int, I want to make sure it's an actual number. ;)

Here is what I've put together. It's untested, so there may be issues with it.

Function IsNumber(str:String):Boolean
Var
  c   : Byte
  a   : Array[1..10] of Boolean
Begin
  IsNumber:=True
  For c:=1 to Length(str) Do
    If Ord(str[c])<48 Or Ord(str[c])>58 Then
      a[c]:=False
    Else a[c]:=True
  For c:=1 to Length(str) Do
    If a[c]=False Then IsNumber:=False
End

2. Not sure about how possible this is, but could a text box, such as the vertical, horizontal, etc, be used to ask a user a question and have them type in a response? Such as:

                    Enter your BBS Name
               [                           ]

And be able to save the response as a string?

I've been having fun putting these in different places within Castle Rock, and think this would be a great addition.

Thanks for all of your hard work and effort you put into Mystic. It is greatly appreciated!


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