Re: xbin
By: MRO to DesotoFireflite on Wed Mar 09 2022 09:56:09
MR> anyways, maybe what would help us out in the current age is to go in the
MR> direction that excaliber bbs was going. there it had graphics and sound.
At a certain point you're just reinventing the web browser. There was a time when these would've been awesome features for a BBS to have, but timing just didn't work out. Everyone bailed for the web because it was prettier, easier to use, and a wider world. And that was way back when, before apps and touchscreens and really fine-tuned UI design.
By the time the BBS is retooled and reinvented sufficiently to appeal to modern users, and maybe serve communities in need of their own self-hosted hub, it'll look very different. It'd probably look like a mishmash of several modern apps, with a curious textmode option attached that few people ever use. There's probably a place for that, but I guarantee that tons of people here would refuse to call it a BBS at that point.
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Re: Re: xbin
By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Mar 09 2022 12:04:31
MR> i checked out echicken's bbs and it does have a nice colorful one right
MR> before the login. i dont know if there's more on his bbs to view, i looked
MR> around but didn't see any.
That's the only one. It's just there as a demo. I never found any practical use for it on my BBS and didn't pursue it further.
It would be nice to be able to put a transparent background to syncterm hahaha
Re: xbin
By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon Mar 07 2022 21:28:46
The display function I'm using is like this, where 'fn' is a string, path to a sixel file:
load('cterm_lib.js');
function show_sixel(fn) {
if (console.cterm_version >= 1189) {
var image = new File(fn);
if (image.exists) {
if (image.open("rb", true)) {
var readlen = console.output_buffer_level + console.output_buffer_space; readlen /= 2;
console.clear();
while (!image.eof) {
var imagedata=image.read(readlen);
while (console.output_buffer_space < imagedata.length) {
mswait(1);
}
console.write(imagedata);
}
image.close();
return true;
}
Ok, so far, I made a file with the ext of js, and put it in my mods directory. I tried calling the file ?file.js c:/sbbs/text.oip.six. with no
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To: DesotoFireflite
Re: xbin
By: DesotoFireflite to echicken on Thu Mar 10 2022 13:11:14
If you add this line to the end of the JS file, it should try to display the sixel file given on your command line:
show_sixel(argv[0]);
Re: xbin
By: DesotoFireflite to echicken on Thu Mar 10 2022 13:11:14
If you add this line to the end of the JS file, it should try to display the sixel file given on your command line:
show_sixel(argv[0]);
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