Subj : Re: MPL docs?
To   : PSI-JACK
From : GRYPHON
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm

On 09/01/14, Psi-Jack said the following...
 
 Ps> On 09/01/14, Gryphon said the following...
 Ps>  
 Ps>  Gr>  Ps>  Gr> I actually have a modified mpl.doc that is viewable on Cybe
 Ps>  Gr>  Ps>  Gr> to the Textfiles>>Mystic section.  
 Ps>  Gr>  Ps> 
 Ps>  Gr>  Ps> Cool... But, can't download it? :)
 Ps>  Gr> 
 Ps>  Gr> I think that might be an undocument option.  I'll have to check.
 Ps>  Gr> 
 Ps>  Gr> Nope, It's not there.  It will be available in the update.
 Ps> 
 Ps> Cool. Much appreciated! I'm definitely looking at your G-Files as an
 Ps> option for bulletins, because it supports folders which is really handy.
 Ps> The only thing I think is lacking is a what's-new indicator.. Yes, I
 Ps> know it has an age view of it, but that's not quite the same thing. 
 Ps> 
 Ps> The way that the bulletin.mps works is by comparing the UserLastOn with
 Ps> the date/time of the file to show bulletins that are new within that
 Ps> time period, at the least.. I'd like to go a little further, honestly,
 Ps> and have each user their own index file to track what they've read, when
 Ps> they read it, so no matter when they login, how many times they login,
 Ps> they can always see the bulletins they have yet to read (and possibly
 Ps> should), like BBS rules, policies, as well as things like door game
 Ps> scores.

It's possible to add that as an option to gfiles.  Basicall, it will fill a
variable to see if the text file is newer than the user's last visit. 
Something like a little check mark can be used in the gfhi/gflo ansi files to
signify that the file is new to that user.

Beyond that, I don't think I would want to take the app in to a direction
where it needs to keep track of which files the user has read.

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