Subj : Heads up on some new things under development in 5.7
To   : All
From : Rushfan #1@513.Wwivnet
Date : Fri Mar 12 2021 11:50 am


RE: Heads up on some new things under development in 5.7

Hey everyone,

5.7's well underway for development so far, we've closed 34 open issues (both  
bugs and feature requests) so far.  I expect 5.7 will likely be under  
developent until Fall. 

A couple of big changes happening lately.  Please take alook at the What's New  
File for everything so far.  Here's some things not yet landed but underway.

The notion of language and menuset are merging together. In WWIV 5, there  
hasn't been string support, so effectively the only language is english.  By  
making this a 1-1 mapping, it'll be easier to tweak some language strings  
(coming soon) and menus togehter.  Also under the menus you can have a  gfiles/ 
and scripts/ directory that are menu-set (and of coure langage)  specific.

As for language files, started experimenting with externalizing a few strings  
outside of the BBS.  It's still in flux, but here's an example bbs.str.ini  
that would live in either the menuset directory or gfiles/ directory for the  
system wide default.

[lang]

;
; Common words: Yes/No/Quit/Pause/etc
;

KEY_NO    = N
KEY_QUIT  = Q
KEY_YES   = Y
NO        = |{random "No", "Nah"}
PAUSE     = "|#3More? [Y/n/c]"
QUIT      = Quit
YES       = |{random "Yes", "Yep", "Sure"}

;
; Logon Area
;
NN_PROMPT = """
Enter number or name or 'NEW'
NN: """
PW_PROMPT = "PW: "

Notice a few things here:
1) Pipe expressions (new in 5.6) are available.  We have a few of them like if  
and pause already, but random is new and pretty cool.
2) Multi-line values.  This is new in 5.7 and demonstrated with thetext for  
the NN: promot.  We also have a pipe expression for MPL (to display the blue  
background for input text).

I'm hoping that this + the most recent menu set improvements made in 5.6 will  
allow WWIV to be super customizable without needing to mod the source.  Of  
course modding the source is fun and always an option, this will make it more  
accessible to more people.

Love to hear any thoughts or feedback on it, it's been coming along nicely, at  
least from my point of view.

rushfan


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