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  • Talisman first launch

    From Tiny@21:1/130 to Apam on Monday, November 09, 2020 06:11:28
    Hey man,

    My inital thoughts on a first run / no documentation / muck around and see what I can break.

    1) Easy install.

    2) New user process nice and small and quick. I like that.

    3) Is there anyway to have talisman stay minimized? ie: everytime I connect it pops
    up and covers my terminal.

    4) Toolkit while it says it works doesn't seem to. ie:
    toolkit password Shawn.Highfield newpassword says "Done" but it's not.

    5) On the new message scan, is it designed to just show you the areas and then I go to the area to (L)ist the messages and go that way? Or should it pop up and allow one to read the new messages?


    That's it for a first run. Mostly positive for a 0.01 version man! Impressed!


    Shawn


    ... Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies accumulate.
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  • From apam@21:1/126 to Tiny on Monday, November 09, 2020 21:33:58
    My inital thoughts on a first run / no documentation / muck around and
    see what I can break.

    Thanks for testing !

    3) Is there anyway to have talisman stay minimized? ie: everytime I
    connect it pops
    up and covers my terminal.

    Hmm, I'll have to look into that, I think there is a way. It's not an
    issue on linux obviously so I never really had a problem there :)

    4) Toolkit while it says it works doesn't seem to. ie:
    toolkit password Shawn.Highfield newpassword says "Done" but it's not.

    Hmm, that's a problem. I'll look at it also, I never tested it on
    windows.

    5) On the new message scan, is it designed to just show you the areas and then
    I go to the area to (L)ist the messages and go that way? Or should it pop up
    and allow one to read the new messages?

    At present yeah, I tend to prefer it that way, but will give an option
    for others to use a newscan like I had in magicka where it reads new
    messages.

    That's it for a first run. Mostly positive for a 0.01 version man! Impressed!

    Thanks! Appreciate you testing it.

    Andrew


    --- Talisman v0.2-dev (Linux/x86_64)
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  • From Rushfan@21:2/115 to Apam on Monday, November 09, 2020 15:24:56
    BY: apam(21:1/126)


    3) Is there anyway to have talisman stay minimized? ie: everytime I connect it pops
    up and covers my terminal.

    Hmm, I'll have to look into that, I think there is a way. It's not an
    issue on linux obviously so I never really had a problem there :)

    I just did this a week ago too. Here's the code: https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/commit/d0d012f7424b66f8e16cb4da9a337ebadaa6a02d#diff-f17048ceabb3efe55f7dce6852c3934f9450e29fdb2612bf72fdbb7a0c1fb546R81

    It comes down to adding:
    si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
    si.wShowWindow = SW_MINIMIZE;

    -rushfan


    --- WWIV 5.6.0.3308
    * Origin: Mystic Rhythms BBS (21:2/115)
  • From Apam@21:1/182 to Rushfan on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 08:45:25
    RE: Re: Talisman first launch
    BY: Rushfan(21:2/115)


    It comes down to adding:
    si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
    si.wShowWindow = SW_MINIMIZE;

    Yep thanks, got it working last night :)

    Andrew

    --- WWIV 5.5.0.development
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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to apam on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:18:54
    apam wrote to Tiny <=-

    Thanks for testing !

    You're welcome.

    Hmm, I'll have to look into that, I think there is a way. It's not an issue on linux obviously so I never really had a problem there :)

    I know. :) Windows can be a pain. I'm sure it can be done as the netfoss
    thingie stays put. :)

    At present yeah, I tend to prefer it that way, but will give an option
    for others to use a newscan like I had in magicka where it reads new messages.

    Sounds good.

    Shawn

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