I am wondering if someone could shed some light on how I would accomplish
a quick login prompt to add to my logon.js file? It would be pretty simple to implement in BAJA:

# Prompt "quick logon?"
no_yes "\r\nkhquick logon"
if_false
crlf
goto skip
end_if
:skip

What would be the equivalent in JS?

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to All on Sun Sep 21 2008 18:24:00

# Prompt "quick logon?"
no_yes "\r\nkhquick logon"
if_false
crlf
goto skip
end_if
:skip

What would be the equivalent in JS?

What're you trying to achieve? A skip past the usual bulletins and other stuff? I implemented that once by adding a prefix ("*") to the username
at the NN: prompt. IOW to perform a fast logon, you would simply
have to enter *nightcrawler at the NN: prompt.

A simple check for the "*" turned on a flag to trigger the skip, and
removed the "*" so the username could be validated successfully. (If you don't like a "*" use something else.) You would have to modify login.js
to check for the flag. You could insert a small block of code right after
the
// Get login string
var str=console.getstr( . . . );

to check for the prefix/flag (various ways), remove it if found, and also either initiate the skip or set a value in a variable that can be tested
later to skip/no-skip. It depends where you want to begin skipping and
where you want to skip *to*. Something like this maybe?

// check for quick-logon prefix (O, Perl! Where art thou?)
if (str.match( /^\*\s*/ )) {
str = str.replace( /^\*\s*/, "" ); // remove prefix
QuickFlag = true; // set flagB
}

Now at any point, you can test for QuickFlag and take apropriate action as
you see fit.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: Angus McLeod to nightcrawler on Mon Sep 22 2008 01:30 am

What're you trying to achieve? A skip past the usual bulletins and other stuff? I implemented that once by adding a prefix ("*") to the username
at the NN: prompt. IOW to perform a fast logon, you would simply
have to enter *nightcrawler at the NN: prompt.

Yes, that is exacltly what I want.

A simple check for the "*" turned on a flag to trigger the skip, and
removed the "*" so the username could be validated successfully. (If you don't like a "*" use something else.) You would have to modify login.js
to check for the flag. You could insert a small block of code right after the // Get login string var str=console.getstr( . . . );

I am not sure if that would work for me, since I am not using login.js (I am using a Matrix).

I am looking for something along the lines of a Yes No prompt after the
first logon.ans is displayed. If yes it would go straight to the main menu.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to Angus McLeod on Mon Sep 22 2008 03:22:00

You could insert a small block of code right after
the // Get login string var str=console.getstr( . . . );

I am not sure if that would work for me, since I am not using login.js (I am using a Matrix).

Never saw the appeal of those -- just another option to take before you
get online....

Still, you have to enter your username *SOMEWHERE*, whether you use a
Matrix or not. So you could still use the prefix method.

I am looking for something along the lines of a Yes No prompt after the first logon.ans is displayed. If yes it would go straight to the main menu.

That would be just *another* entry for the user to make before getting
logged on... but I guess it would work well enough.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: Angus McLeod to nightcrawler on Mon Sep 22 2008 07:29 am

I am looking for something along the lines of a Yes No prompt after the first logon.ans is displayed. If yes it would go straight to the main men

That would be just *another* entry for the user to make before getting logged on... but I guess it would work well enough.

Well I am thinking it would be more of a benefit to myself when I am testing out door games and such, so I can quickly get on. But I suppose it might be
of use to some users who wish to not see all the pretty ANSI. But IMHO, if people don't want to look at ANSI screens and such, they have no business using BBSes.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to All on Sun Sep 21 2008 06:24 pm

I am wondering if someone could shed some light on how I would accomplish
a quick login prompt to add to my logon.js file? It would be pretty simple to implement in BAJA:

# Prompt "quick logon?"
no_yes "\r\nkhquick logon"
if_false
crlf
goto skip
end_if
:skip

What would be the equivalent in JS?

What is "goto skip" skipping exactly?

Anyway, what you wrote in JavaScript, assuming "skip" just skips the rest of the logon script:

if(!console.noyes("\r\n\1k\1hquick logon")) {
console.crlf();
exit();
}

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Re: Quick Logon
By: Digital Man to nightcrawler on Mon Sep 22 2008 06:18 pm

Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to All on Sun Sep 21 2008 06:24 pm

I am wondering if someone could shed some light on how I would accomplish a quick login prompt to add to my logon.js file? It would be pretty simpl to implement in BAJA:

# Prompt "quick logon?" no_yes "\r\nkhquick logon" if_false crlf goto skip end_if :skip

What would be the equivalent in JS?

What is "goto skip" skipping exactly?

I am not sure, it is just an excerpt from an old mod by Jack Phlash.

if(!console.noyes("\r\n\1k\1hquick logon")) { console.crlf(); exit();
}

Thanks.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to Angus McLeod on Mon Sep 22 2008 15:29:00

But IMHO, if people don't want to look at ANSI screens and such, they
have no business using BBSes.

Right. Because unless you are ga-ga for crappy ANSI displays, play
dumb-assed text-based games, leech files from the filestore, waste hours 'chatting' with the other morons on the board, and post loads of messages
in the subs, you don't DESERVE to use a BBS. As a good SysOp, it is your
duty to FORCE your users to enjoy those parts of the system that YOU think
are worthy, even if THEY do not wish to.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: Angus McLeod to nightcrawler on Mon Sep 22 2008 09:30 pm

But IMHO, if people don't want to look at ANSI screens and such, they have no business using BBSes.

Right. Because unless you are ga-ga for crappy ANSI displays, play dumb-assed text-based games, leech files from the filestore, waste hours 'chatting' with the other morons on the board, and post loads of messages
in the subs, you don't DESERVE to use a BBS.

Looks like you summed it up perfectly.

Take away all those things you mentioned, and you no longer run a BBS, it is a.... Good question. I have no idea what you'd call it then.

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nightcrawler wrote:

Take away all those things you mentioned, and you no longer run a BBS, it
is a.... Good question. I have no idea what you'd call it then.

Facebook?

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to Angus McLeod on Tue Sep 23 2008 15:15:00

Right. Because unless you are ga-ga for crappy ANSI displays, play dumb-assed text-based games, leech files from the filestore, waste hours 'chatting' with the other morons on the board, and post loads of messages in the subs, you don't DESERVE to use a BBS.

Looks like you summed it up perfectly.

Take away all those things you mentioned, and you no longer run a BBS...

But you can take away SOME of them and still be running a BBS. For the
SysOp to *insist* that the callers sit and twiddle their thumbs through
the lame-assed ANSIs is pathetic.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: Angus McLeod to nightcrawler on Tue Sep 23 2008 09:01 pm

Right. Because unless you are ga-ga for crappy ANSI displays, play dumb-assed text-based games, leech files from the filestore, waste hou 'chatting' with the other morons on the board, and post loads of messa in the subs, you don't DESERVE to use a BBS.

Looks like you summed it up perfectly.

Take away all those things you mentioned, and you no longer run a BBS...

But you can take away SOME of them and still be running a BBS. For the SysOp to *insist* that the callers sit and twiddle their thumbs through
the lame-assed ANSIs is pathetic.

Exactly. And I agree, some people don't like or not in the mood to go through 5+ logon screens, hence the quick logon. But before you make the judgement that my ANSIs are "lame-assed", I urge you to check my board out. All of my ANSIs were done by ZeroVison, so they are far from lame-assed.

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But you can take away SOME of them and still be running a BBS. For the SysOp to *insist* that the callers sit and twiddle their thumbs through
the lame-assed ANSIs is pathetic.

My 2 cents that everyone but you and your uber message filter will see is
that a few speedy ENTER's always get you to the main menu fast enough.

Nothing wrong with a user statistics screen and a LOGON.ANS or random*.ans ad while logging in. It makes for a colorful family style informative BBS and login sequence, instead of an expert mode solid 1color/ascii prompt for 50 year olds that says this was all loaded with punch tape reels, newscan your messages and GO AWAY there is no fun here!

Also I take pride in my ANSI's that I setup and rip off from ACiD, sixteencolors.net and even Jack Phlash lol...

I also like lightbar menus, so there.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to Angus McLeod on Thu Sep 25 2008 15:25:00

But before you make the judgement that my ANSIs are "lame-assed", I
urge you to check my board out. All of my ANSIs were done by ZeroVison,
so they are far from lame-assed.

*Every* ANSI is lame-assed, the second time you HAVE to sit through it.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: Angus McLeod to nightcrawler on Thu Sep 25 2008 10:33 pm

*Every* ANSI is lame-assed, the second time you HAVE to sit through it.

Well you HAVE to see a menu; or be in xpert mode. Given the choice, I'd
rather see some art, rather than a boring prompt, day after day. Anyways, since this is the Javascript sub, and my problem has been rectified (thanks DM), I consider this topic closed.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: nightcrawler to Angus McLeod on Fri Sep 26 2008 21:01:00

Re: Quick Logon
By: Angus McLeod to nightcrawler on Thu Sep 25 2008 10:33 pm

*Every* ANSI is lame-assed, the second time you HAVE to sit through it.

Well you HAVE to see a menu...

Really? When is the last time I saw a Synchronet menu?

I consider this topic closed.

Good night to you, then.

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Re: Quick Logon
By: The Immortal to Angus McLeod on Thu Sep 25 2008 08:19 pm

Nothing wrong with a user statistics screen and a LOGON.ANS or random*.ans ad while logging in. It makes for a colorful family style informative BBS and login sequence, instead of an expert mode solid 1color/ascii prompt for 50 year olds that says this was all loaded with punch tape reels, newscan

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Really? When is the last time I saw a Synchronet menu?

The last time you got on another BBS than your own... so who knows...

You're in for an annoying treat the first time you use anyone elses command shells that have different default hotkeys.

Good night to you, then.

Up yours lol!

Your supremist attitude sucks, no matter how smart you think you are. It
never seems to end either. I'm sorry the rest of us don't talk about only assembler and javascript with you all day, and if I recall you weren't prompted to butt in with your negative comments and calling ANSI lame assed.

Get a life outside of 10100010101's and crashing expensive toy planes.
God forbid you come across as cheery one day...

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