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Does anyone know how I can change the default mystic header in bulletins? everything else I can display what I wish for some reason the bulletins are different? any help appreciated...




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Does anyone know how I can change the default mystic header in bulletins? everything else I can display what I wish for some reason the bulletins are different? any help appreciated...

I guess bulletins are different because it's not a menu per se, it's a Mystic script that displays a menu.

So, if you felt like it, you could edit the bulletin.asc in the themes/default/text directory (assuming everything is bog standard).

Probably better, though, would be to edit the bulletin menu option (standard
is off of the main menu).

It's the (GX) Execute MPL program
with data of
bulletin bulletin bullet

If you change the second bulletin (e.g. bulletin newbull bullet), it _should_ display whatever .ans or .asc file you specify. At least that's what it says the program does, at the top of the bulletin.mps script.

Is that what you were aiming for? I know I personally still struggle with how to easily edit the bulletins, or give updates, or whatever, as it's not the most intuitive bit of Mystic.

But that should put you on your way to editing the header. Do tell us what issues you run into.

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Greetings Adept!

01 Sep 20 02:42, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

Does anyone know how I can change the default mystic header in
bulletins? everything else I can display what I wish for some
reason the bulletins are different? any help appreciated...

bulletin bulletin bullet

If you change the second bulletin (e.g. bulletin newbull bullet), it _should_ display whatever .ans or .asc file you specify. At least
that's what it says the program does, at the top of the bulletin.mps script.

Ok, So I did as you suggested and it did pull up my new header when "S" executed from main menu. It would not pull up any of "new" bulletins placed in that directory however. I knew their numbers so if I put "3" at prompt it did pull up my test bulletin, however without the the new header? I may be mis-understanding how this bulletin system works, is the program meant to insert that header into any bulletins? Or as user am I meant to create bulletins with that header already in place? Then I have to figure out when its run from the main menu why it is not seeing "new" bulletins.. I tried two naming schemes it did not see either I tried bullet3.asc and bulletin3.asc.

You are right this is not very intuitive piece of mystic...

Thanks for you help!




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Rick Smith (Nitro)

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Ok, So I did as you suggested and it did pull up my new header when "S" executed from main menu. It would not pull up any of "new" bulletins placed in that directory however. I knew their numbers so if I put "3"

If I'm following this correctly, you:

1) had it display your new ANSI file
2) were able to select a bulletin by typing in the appropriate number

but you want to do one or both of the following:

1) Have it automatically populate a menu with the listed bulletins
2) have the new header show up in the bulletin

...I'm not at all sure that I read your comment correctly, though. So do tell me if I'm on the right track.

If those two items _are_ what you want, I'll point out that there's no automatic menu with the bulletin, because it's not a menu -- it's a script
that you're running. You can probably create a menu, that has various options that display a text file, and make that into the bulletin menu.

Or you can edit the newbull.ans to have the menu options (and edit it every time you add or change a bulletin), and then edit the header in each of the bullet1/2/3.asc files to have the new header in it. (I'd assume .ans would work, too, but that's an assumption, not something I've tried or checked to
see if the code description says it does that.).

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