I have succesfully updated bulletins, but seem manual.

Both .ASC and .CFG have to be updated by hand. And .ASC seems to
use Control-A codes, that I'm not familiar with. But was able to
copy and reuse most that were in the original file.

Am I making this process more difficult than it is ? Is there a way
to auto-generate the menu (.asc) from the file slisted in the .cfg file?

Are there other bulletin tools that automate this?

Trying to learn. I have been referring to

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Re: Bullseye Bulletin
By: Amessyroom to All on Mon Jul 01 2024 21:01:59

Both .ASC and .CFG have to be updated by hand. And .ASC seems to use Control-A codes, that I'm not familiar with. But was able to copy and reuse most that were in the original file.

you can conver ansi to ctrl-a format using ../exec/ans2asc or if you use SyncDraw you can just save it in Sync format (ctrl-a) as far as updating the bullseye.cfg if you change the name of the display file, it will hamve to be changed either manually or by a script in the cfg file.. or lets say you are converting score files to ctrl-a, you can just do that automagically in a script using ans2asc. there are other great scripts out there to view bulletins though like Bullshit, thats what I use and it does the job, I have over 300 door games so I spawn a new bullshit directory for each game area (sports, rpg, etc). I still use bullseye though for my regular news type bulletins. whats cool with Javascript though is it is so dynamic, you can go in and change it to do what you need it to do. this makes it where everything in synchronet can just be seamless, the user will not know where one module ends and the next begins after putting enough time into it.
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Re: Bullseye Bulletin
By: Amessyroom to All on Mon Jul 01 2024 09:01 pm

Both .ASC and .CFG have to be updated by hand. And .ASC seems to use Control-A codes, that I'm not familiar with. But was able to copy and reuse most that were in the original file.

Am I making this process more difficult than it is ? Is there a way to auto-generate the menu (.asc) from the file slisted in the .cfg file?

Are there other bulletin tools that automate this?

I haven't seen anyhing to auto-generate the bulletin menu. For that, and the .asc files with Ctrl-A codes, normally what I do is use an ANSI editor and then convert it to Ctrl-A codes using ans2asc (which is a tool that comes with Synchronet).

Nightfox

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Re: Bullseye Bulletin
By: Amessyroom to All on Mon Jul 01 2024 09:01 pm

I have succesfully updated bulletins, but seem manual.

Both .ASC and .CFG have to be updated by hand. And .ASC seems to
use Control-A codes, that I'm not familiar with. But was able to
copy and reuse most that were in the original file.

That's correct. There are tools (e.g. PabloDraw) that can save to Ctrl-A format files (.msg, .asc) directly.

Am I making this process more difficult than it is ? Is there a way
to auto-generate the menu (.asc) from the file slisted in the .cfg file?

No, not with Bullsye! Bulletins which is a *very* simple (and old) script.

Are there other bulletin tools that automate this?

Take a look at echicken's bulletins module at xtrn/bullshit/*.

Trying to learn. I have been referring to

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Re: Bullseye Bulletin
By: Amessyroom to All on Mon Jul 01 2024 09:01 pm

Both .ASC and .CFG have to be updated by hand. And .ASC seems to use Control-A codes, that I'm not familiar with. But was able to copy and reuse most that were in the original file.

Am I making this process more difficult than it is ? Is there a way to auto-generate the menu (.asc) from the file slisted in the .cfg file?

Are there other bulletin tools that automate this?

I haven't seen anyhing to auto-generate the bulletin menu. For
that, and the .asc files with Ctrl-A codes, normally what I do is
use an ANSI editor and then convert it to Ctrl-A codes using
ans2asc (which is a tool that comes with Synchronet).

Agree and that's how I do it too. The ans2asc utility is documented on
the Wiki.



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No, not with Bullsye! Bulletins which is a *very* simple (and old) script.

Take a look at echicken's bulletins module at xtrn/bullshit/*.

Thanks I will check it out.

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Re: Bullseye Bulletin
By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 02 2024 10:25 am

Am I making this process more difficult than it is ? Is there a way
to auto-generate the menu (.asc) from the file slisted in the .cfg file?

No, not with Bullsye! Bulletins which is a *very* simple (and old) script.

I updated bullseye.js to auto-generate the list of bulletins if the menu file doesn't exist. There are other minor improvements as well, with logging and error handling, but that's about it (now v3.00).
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Re: Bullseye Bulletin
By: Granville Errol Casey, Jr to Digital Man on Tue Jul 02 2024 04:17 pm

Yes. I was intending on pasting the wiki link I had read for bullseye, LOL but it exited the editor instead of pasting.

It happens. :-)
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