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_____ _ _ _ _ ___ |_ _|_ _(_) ___ _ __ | |__ | |__ ___ / | / _ \ | | | '_| |/ _ \| '_ \ | '_ \| '_ \/ __| | | | | | | | | | | | | (_) | | | | | |_) | |_) \__ \ | |_| |_| | |_| |_| |_|\___/|_| |_| |____/|____/|___/ |_(_)\___/ © 1994/98 by Paul Spijkerman All Rights Reserved Update from V1.08 to V1.09 Here are some of the things I worked on. Note that after Update V1.10 I'm probably going to make a complete V1.10 archive for Aminet so the next update probably consists of little things and docs. Utils: TrionRM, Tick, BBS, Tmp, scheduler FileEd, MailEd, MaintMod, UserEd MiscGui, Attention, AttViewer Doors: Scripts: Mail Cfg: MiscGui.cfg, taglines.data -Changed the list handler a bit so scrolling a lot smoother, it doesn't use the blitter to scroll yet but it looks very good now. -Changed the file editor so if you edit the description the line you are editing stays hi-lighted. -I must be going blind or something like that, just noticed the MailEd windows are titled "Trion FileEditor" or something like that. -Changed the FileEditor. Normally when you go back from the editor the to the filelist the list is emptied en de scroller goes back to full size. It now empties the list but doesn't redraw it until the list is loaded again .. so you don't see the actual loading anymore and you can select the file after the file you just edited without having to go back in the list. -Fixed a little bug in the BBS, the total minutes a user is online during all calls was added a number of updates ago but I forgot to clear this field when a new user logs in so a new user "inherited" the number of minutes called from the previous user.. -Changed Tick a bit so it can unpack archives, some PC tick processors make files with a name like 00000000.c00 which contains all files and .tic files. When it encounters such a file it tries to Unpack it and then process all the files. It doesn't uses the Archive.cfg because that only extracts the *.pkt files from mail archives. To avoid making a config just for unpacking tick files, it uses the Unpack.cfg .. which was made for the shell unpack Util. The default version of that config has no quiet flags or routing of the output to NIL: so the unarchiving is displayed in the shell. It will unpack archives with the lowest number after de 'c' first. Later i heard other PC tick processors make .ZIC archives, which are probably something like "Zipped tIC" archives. So I added a loop that checks for archives with extensions that end with .?IC but don't have .TIC in the name. Worked a little bit on different modes for the description lines .. but that isn't finished yet. In normal tic files the descriptions are put on one long line that start with "Desc" but some PC tick processors put descriptions on multiple lines so you can have formatted descriptions (the ANSI drawings and File_id.diz type thingies) .. these are not supported by Amiga tick processors so if there is an Amiga tick processor between you and a PC tick processor you only get the first line of the description which is probably something like the topside of an ANSI-box. So even if this works and you poll a Xlk BBS you still have the single line. -Since the last update there was a little problem in TrionRM with the node status not updating when something in a node changed. In the previous version there were more possibilities added to the list handler .. because of this the way a list is accessed was a little changed .. this part in TrionRM was missed when updating to the new standard. Also what happend is that the list is now dynamically, you have to make entries at the opening of the window to be able to "update" the entries later.. beats me why there was something in the list in the last version. -Fixed a little problem in MaintMod, in the last update I forgot to update a piece of code where the star was added to a line if you clicked on it. Because of this the line wasn't updated with a star but a new line with the star was added. When you started the MaintMod again all was displayed right. -Fixed a little thing in TMP ... when an echomail message was Bad because Origin, Seen-by:'s or path was missing to wrote to the log that all 3 things where missing instead of 1 or 2 or 3 items. -Changed the scheduler a bit so you can optionally op it's window on the TrionRM public screen when you use "ONTRION" on the command line when started. This has the disadvantage that you can't Iconize the TrionRM window anymore (until you close the Scheduler window). Which is not a problem when you have the TrionRM screen always open. Note that it isn't a problem to have the screen always open, but it slows the mail processor a little when unpacking mail because it has to update the screen after each message. The Trion:down script still works because it also quits the scheduler. Couldn't think of a better way to implement this at this moment, well actually I just thougth of something. Just add to the "event" program commands to Iconize and DeIconize the scheduler and then call the "event" program when TrionRM is Iconized or Deiconized. Have to think if that is a really smart thing to do. ! -Taglines And Signatures Added flags to the Trion:cfg/MailAreas.cfg to controll of Taglines And Signatures are allowed in message sections. So if you allow both you have to add flags to all sections or if you are lucky you can use the "replace" mode in CED and replace "-]" with "TS-]" or something like that. (The - before the ] is necessary if you use the ] in section names like "[Fido] Amiga") So this is a list of the existing flags at this moment: ; Flags: type of area (use only 1 per area) ; L = Local Messages ; N = Netmail ; E = Echomail ; ; Characteristics of area ; A = User may use an alias in this area. ; W = Users can write in this area. ; O = Obligatory (for areafix) can't disconnect with areafix ; I = Internet support (For E-mail) ; S = Use signatures in this section ; T = Use taglines in the section -Added simple code for Taglines. I looked at a few archives that add Tagline support to other BBS programs and they are mostly weird hacks so I added some support to prevent that. That needed separate config files, or they used Signature files so you had to disable Signatures or you got double signatures etc. Also there were al sorts of scripts to filter and sort tag files and to make Index files. The index files are data files which contains the number of taglines present and the position of each line in the file to guarantee guick acccess. Because when you want to select a Random tagline you first have to know how many lines there are and secondly if you don't want to browse to all lines before the one randomly picked you have to know the position in the file. To prevent this I thougth of a simpler methode which works nearly as well but doesn't need the index file. I just take the size of the Tagline data file, and make a Random number which selects a Random position in the file. Then I start reading in the file until I find a return. The character at the next position is the start of the selected Tagline ! It reads the line and if it is not empty or starts with a ';' it will return this line. If it is empty or starts with a ';' it will read on to find a line which isn't empty or starts with a ';'. This methode is quick, i tested it with a 250kb file and you can't measere the access time with a stopwatch. However there are a couple of little problems. It isn't as random as the methode with the index file because if a tagline is preceeded with a line tagline it has a sligthly bigger change of being choosen. The second problem is that if the random position is in the last line .. there isn't a tagline it can read. Well .. if that problem occurs it just tries again, with a maximum of 3 tries. Which seems to work fine. Only if you have 30 taglines in a file, after about 100 times skipping the presented tagline the code aborts. But hey .. that means that the User already has seen all taglines 3 times !!! So you can also see this as a protection of users against them self if they can't stop looking at your taglines :) With a 250K tagline file the chanches of this happening is very small. Note that this is a very simple but funtional implementation, in the near future I probably will look if I can make this into a door so others can make doors for this. But it shouldn't really be necessary. Or make a little GUI for local use where you can select a line from a list of add one. Note that the format of the data file are single lines of less than 80 characters, so it selects taglines not paragraphs. Which migth be an option for a next version but I don't know if BIG taglines are apreciated by everyone who has to read them :) Note that empty lines or lines beginning with a ';' are skipped. -Attention and AttViewer Some sysops really want to see what is going on in their scripts. You can add "echo" lines to scripts so that you can look at a shell window what is going on but that isn't very convenient. So I made a program which shows a list of lines (AttViewer) that are send to the list by a shell program (Attention). The program can be used in two ways: You can start the Viewer manually by for instance clicking on a button in MiscGui (see further in this doc). You then call: Attenttion "This is a test" in scripts to make text appear in the list. In this way you can see what is going on as long if you have the Viewer program running. The other way is to have Attention start and stop the Viewer in a script. Attention has 3 options: Trion Attention V1.00 (c)1998 Paul Spijkerman. Use : <-options> "Text" Options: -O = Open the Trion Attention Viewer. -Q = Quit the Trion Attention Viewer. -C = Clear the Trion Attention Viewer. So if you want the viewer to "pop up" during a mail script for instance you would use something like this: (If you want to use it manually just remove the -o and -q flags) ;;; Script to proces mail and .TIC files. ;quit wait 2 avail flush >nil: Attention -o "Mail: script started" trion -max "Mail processor is started, system can be a little slower" trion:utils/CheckInbound -q if WARN Attention "Mail: processor in PACK mode" trion:utils/tmp P -d else ;;; process .TIC files Attention "Mail: Processing tick files" trion:utils/TrionTick -p -b -d ;CD trion:inbound ;;; to enable unpacking ARC and ARJ archives Attention "Mail: processor in UNpack mode" trion:utils/tmp U -c -b -f -d ;CD trion: ;;; to enable unpacking ARC and ARJ archives Attention "Mail: Areafix started" trion:utils/areafix F -d Attention "Mail: processor in PACK mode" trion:utils/tmp P -d endif Attention "Mail: script finished" -q trion -m -a -x "Mail processor is Finished !" -Added a Mail(editor) button to the TrionRM window. -Added a Misc. button to the TrionRM window, which runs the MiscGui program when clicked. Made a little MiscGui program which produces a window with programmable buttons. Like clickit all over again. Very usefull for starting shell things or third party GUI tools. You can for instance put a node number in a button .. and when you click on it it starts a script which DeIconizes the node and gives a call command. It uses the "Trion:utils/MiscGui.cfg". You can use Buttons and text fields which will be arranged in a horizontal row. Until it finds a command to tell it to go to the next row. There are 5 commands. TEXT "some text" BUTTON "some text" "command to be executed" NEXTROW QUITBUTTON NEXTBOX Text <- makes a box with text Button <- makes a button NextRow <- sort of a return for a new line of buttons QuitButton <- makes a quit button (optional) NextBox <- start a complete new box with buttons (optional) Here is an experimental example, which will produce something like this: (Just an example, you can use more rows or buttons) Boss1 14:103/0 Make poll pkt Make the call Boss2 14:103/103 Make poll pkt Make the call Files Bulkupload CheckFileBase Config this Misc KillOldMail KillOldUsers Compile menus Trim Trim logs Trim backup Trim msgs TEXT "Boss 1" TEXT "14:103/0" BUTTON "Make poll pkt" "Trion:utils/poll 14:103/0" BUTTON "Make the call" "Trion:utils/trion -c -1 14:103/0" NEXTROW TEXT "Boss 2" TEXT "14:103/103" BUTTON "Make poll pkt" "Trion:utils/poll 14:103/103" BUTTON "Make the call" "Trion:utils/trion -c -1 14:103/103" NEXTROW TEXT "Files" BUTTON "Bulkupload" "Trion:utils/TBulkUpload" BUTTON "CheckFileBase" "Trion:utils/CheckFileBase I >ram:cfb" BUTTON "Config this" "CED Trion:cfg/MiscGui.cfg" NEXTROW TEXT "Misc." BUTTON "KillOldMail" "Trion:utils/KillOldMail" BUTTON "KillOldUsers" "Trion:utils/KillOldFiles" BUTTON "Compile Menus" "Trion:utils/menu #?" NEXTROW TEXT "Trim" BUTTON "Trim logs" "Trion:utils/TTrimlogs" BUTTON "Trim backup" "execute Trion:scripts/cbdir" BUTTON "Trim msgs" "execute Trion:scripts/TrimMsgs"