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- Stat-Master version 1.0 by Killean
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- I am surprised that know one has writen something like this before, but it
- is really useful, especially for sysops who care about having nice-looking
- stat screens or any screens for their BBS that contains MCI codes. Normally,
- if you want your ansis to come out looking half-way decent without having text
- pushed out of the way when information replaces MCI, you have to draw your
- ansi and then go back under ansimation and put the codes in there respective
- places in the ansi. Unfortunately, if a user aborts halfway through the ansi,
- none of the infomation is seen since its not put in there till the very end.
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- Well, there's an easy way to circumvent this slight problem, so I wrote
- this util to procure that 'on the fly' stat screen look. All you have to do
- is use a text editor and for each MCI do this:
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- 4H %UN C <-- usual method, everything after MCI
- gets pushed to the side
- 4H s%UNuC C <-- now, the cursor position is saved,
- MCI gets replaced, cursor position
- is restored, and then moved to the
- right 3 spots to allow for the
- original MCI length.
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- Pretty easy concept, but just a pain in the ass to implement normally,
- especially if you have like 20 MCIs in your ansi.
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- Now for the commandline:
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- STATMAST <filemask> <MCI code> <MCI length> <buffer length>
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- <filemask> - this is for which files you would like to convert. Files are
- not over-writen, but renamed as '*.!' instead.
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- <MCI code> - just the first letter for all the MCI codes to be converted.
- i.e. '%'
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- <MCI length> - lenght of the MCI code, including the first letter.
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- <buffer length> (optional) - This is a special situation for the program.
- Sometimes you might have your MCI over-writing parts of your
- ansi, such as if had a line of '.'s immeadiately after the
- MCI. In this case, you need to specify the maximum length to be
- allowed for the MCI to over-write.
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- Thats about it. Some experimenting might be needed to get the hang of it,
- but I assure you, its definately worth it. I included a sample to look at if
- you get confused.
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- Killean - ACiDic Staff / RG Alpha
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