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> Second problem is the textview.ans isn't supplied with it, so th
 Ps>  Gr>  Ps> default is just... A scrollbar.. That's it. 
 Ps>  Gr>  Ps> 
 Ps>  Gr> That is actually for the optional textview app.  It is not required f
 Ps>  Gr> the gfiles app, since Mystic has pretty darned good text viewer funct
 Ps>  Gr> already. gfiles will use the optional textview.mpx program if it exis
 Ps>  Gr> in the scripts directory.  If it doesn't find it, it will use the
 Ps>  Gr> default mystic textviewr.  I wrote that app before Mystic had the
 Ps>  Gr> internal text viewer.  But.. to answer your question, the
 Ps>  Gr> CfgTempPath+'textview.dat' is a temp file that gets created in the
 Ps>  Gr> nodes' temp directory. It is a binary file copy of the textfile being
 Ps>  Gr> viewed.
 Ps> 
 Ps> Hmmm, when I delete textview.mpx, it completely fails to work at all,
 Ps> actually. Makes me wonder if I have an old version, or not, but
 Ps> according to my file bases, it's the exact same version as-is on your
 Ps> BBS, so.. I dunno.. It is definitely using the textview.mpx as mandatory
 Ps> though. It was even in the docs to move textview.mps to the script dir,
 Ps> and compile it, and could be used optionally by itself.

When you say "fails to work at all", do you mean the gfiles app doesn't work,
or the gfiles app doesn't display a file?

Basically, if the textview.mpx file is not in the scripts dir, then it calls
the built-in ansiviewer functioin, which is menu command 'GV'.  But it also
uses the default ansiviewer.ans and ansihelp.ans.  If you don't have those
files in your text dir, then it won't display the text files.

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