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Hi g00r00,

I hope you and your family are doing well.

I've got a couple of suggestions for additions to Mystic, particularly in the MPL end of things.

1. Would be possible to add a function in MPL similar to the IsNumber function in FreePascal?

For now, I have written a function that does something close to what I need. If
I'm going to be taking user input and will need to Str2Int, I want to make sure
it's an actual number. ;)

Here is what I've put together. It's untested, so there may be issues with it.

Function IsNumber(str:String):Boolean
Var
c : Byte
a : Array[1..10] of Boolean
Begin
IsNumber:=True
For c:=1 to Length(str) Do
If Ord(str[c])<48 Or Ord(str[c])>58 Then
a[c]:=False
Else a[c]:=True
For c:=1 to Length(str) Do
If a[c]=False Then IsNumber:=False
End

2. Not sure about how possible this is, but could a text box, such as the vertical, horizontal, etc, be used to ask a user a question and have them type in a response? Such as:

Enter your BBS Name
[ ]

And be able to save the response as a string?

I've been having fun putting these in different places within Castle Rock, and think this would be a great addition.

Thanks for all of your hard work and effort you put into Mystic. It is greatly appreciated!


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Black Panther(RCS)
aka Dan Richter
Castle Rock BBS
telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
http://www.castlerockbbs.com
http://github.com/DRPanther
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On 29 Mar 2021, 07:33p, g00r00 said the following...

function isNumber (s: string) : boolean;
begin
isNumber := str2int(s) > 0 or s = '0';
end;

Well, that's an easier way to do it... Nothing like over-thinking something. ;)

Thank you.

Yes you can use the box MCI code to drop a box and then use the input to get the input. Or display an ANSI to draw the box, whatever you'd like and the use input to get the input. Or you could use any of the
box/input classes to draw form-like things using MPL. There are lots of ways to do it.

Awesome. I'll have to do some playing around and see what I can come up with.

There is an example of one way (although it might be overkill for what
you just asked) in testinput.mps that comes with Mystic.

That would have been WAY to simple, to look at example MPLs that come with Mystic. We need to work Harder, not Smarter! lol ;)

Thank you again. Keep up the great work!


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Black Panther(RCS)
aka Dan Richter
Castle Rock BBS
telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
http://www.castlerockbbs.com
http://github.com/DRPanther
The sparrows are flying again...

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From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.mystic

I hope you and your family are doing well.

Thanks!

1. Would be possible to add a function in MPL similar to the IsNumber function i n FreePascal?

function isNumber (s: string) : boolean;
begin
isNumber := str2int(s) > 0 or s = '0';
end;

2. Not sure about how possible this is, but could a text box, such as
the vertic al, horizontal, etc, be used to ask a user a question and
have them type in a re sponse? Such as:

Enter your BBS Name
[ ]

And be able to save the response as a string?

Yes you can use the box MCI code to drop a box and then use the input to get the input. Or display an ANSI to draw the box, whatever you'd like and the use
input to get the input. Or you could use any of the box/input classes to draw form-like things using MPL. There are lots of ways to do it.

There is an example of one way (although it might be overkill for what you just
asked) in testinput.mps that comes with Mystic.

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