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SyncWall - an Inter-BBS ANSI Graffiti Wall - 04/18/12
SyncWall is an inter-BBS graffiti wall, a shared canvas for ANSI and ASCII art
that gets reset at the beginning of each month (previous months' masterpieces
will be saved for later viewing.) Users from every participating BBS can view
and edit the same drawing, even draw with others in real time. You can access
it from the main menu here by pressing 'w' for "graffiti Wall".
SyncWall is available from the Synchronet CVS repository at cvs.synchro.net, at
the xtrn/syncwall/ path. Sysops wishing to run SyncWall will probably want to
update all of the .js files in their exec/load/ directory, since it depends on
several libraries found there. It's a decent basic example of what can be done
with some of the libraries that come with Synchronet today, including frame.js,
tree.js and the JSON DB scripts by MCMLXXIX, as well as my own recently
contributed ansiedit.js library that provides a simple ANSI editor object.
The more people who use it, the more systems that participate, the more fun it
will be - so please try it out and let me know what you think!
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
New ANSI gallery and textfile library - 02/15/12
I've finally rewritten the ANSI gallery / textfile library applications. This
is another one of those things that I've been putting off for a long time now -
at least two years (although in terms of BBS procrastination, that's nothing.)
The old ANSI browser/viewer was decent, but suffered from some bugs. The code
was terrible, one of my earliest efforts with Javascript. The file browser
portion of the thing was a bit flakey at times. Some ANSIs wouldn't display
properly at all. The new ANSI viewer seems to display everything properly and
does a much better job of scrolling ANSIs down the screen, the way they were
meant to be viewed. A new slideshow feature will let you view an entire
directory/artpack without having to open each file individually.
The ANSI library has been cleaned up, sorted alphabetically by group/artist and
is now a lot easier to browse. Directories have been renamed so that they're
not squeezed into 8.3 format, acronyms have been expanded where possible to
avoid a boring list of three-letter group names and words that have been
compressed to fit the constraints of an ancient filesystem.
The ANSI and textfile libraries are available from the main menu by hitting 'A'
and 'T' respectively. Check it out, and let me know if (when) you run into any
problems.
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
Command Shell Switcheroo Part II: The Switchening - 02/02/12
I've fixed (or at least worked around) some screen redraw bugs in the new
command shell, and have put it back in place. Please let me know if you
experience any problems with it.
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
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SyncWall - an Inter-BBS ANSI Graffiti Wall - 04/18/12
SyncWall is an inter-BBS graffiti wall, a shared canvas for ANSI and ASCII art
that gets reset at the beginning of each month (previous months' masterpieces
will be saved for later viewing.) Users from every participating BBS can view
and edit the same drawing, even draw with others in real time. You can access
it from the main menu here by pressing 'w' for "graffiti Wall".
SyncWall is available from the Synchronet CVS repository at cvs.synchro.net, at
the xtrn/syncwall/ path. Sysops wishing to run SyncWall will probably want to
update all of the .js files in their exec/load/ directory, since it depends on
several libraries found there. It's a decent basic example of what can be done
with some of the libraries that come with Synchronet today, including frame.js,
tree.js and the JSON DB scripts by MCMLXXIX, as well as my own recently
contributed ansiedit.js library that provides a simple ANSI editor object.
The more people who use it, the more systems that participate, the more fun it
will be - so please try it out and let me know what you think!
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
New ANSI gallery and textfile library - 02/15/12
I've finally rewritten the ANSI gallery / textfile library applications. This
is another one of those things that I've been putting off for a long time now -
at least two years (although in terms of BBS procrastination, that's nothing.)
The old ANSI browser/viewer was decent, but suffered from some bugs. The code
was terrible, one of my earliest efforts with Javascript. The file browser
portion of the thing was a bit flakey at times. Some ANSIs wouldn't display
properly at all. The new ANSI viewer seems to display everything properly and
does a much better job of scrolling ANSIs down the screen, the way they were
meant to be viewed. A new slideshow feature will let you view an entire
directory/artpack without having to open each file individually.
The ANSI library has been cleaned up, sorted alphabetically by group/artist and
is now a lot easier to browse. Directories have been renamed so that they're
not squeezed into 8.3 format, acronyms have been expanded where possible to
avoid a boring list of three-letter group names and words that have been
compressed to fit the constraints of an ancient filesystem.
The ANSI and textfile libraries are available from the main menu by hitting 'A'
and 'T' respectively. Check it out, and let me know if (when) you run into any
problems.
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
Command Shell Switcheroo Part II: The Switchening - 02/02/12
I've fixed (or at least worked around) some screen redraw bugs in the new
command shell, and have put it back in place. Please let me know if you
experience any problems with it.
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230