Someone long ago wanted to know how to draw nice boxes and display the users
stats in them. such as a box like this
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|name: |John Doe                                   |
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The answer is easy. Andit should work as long as that
person has Ansi or Avatar. Forget it if they are only tty
it involves using the Oacomp keywords of [Locate x,y]
I just created a sample screen and it works. But you must
use the [color] [endcolor] verbs to make sure that this
only is executed if they have ansi/avatar else its going to
get muffed up. Now maybe someone can give me a hint about
oaview. HOW DO I GET THE *&&*#^@#%@ thing to display one of
my user records? I use Opus 1.73a. I set it up as the docs ( I tried OAVIEW 
1.20 and Oaview 1.79 and neither let me display one of my users.. need to do 
this because some of my users have long names. and I wanted to use them for 
testing. I also need to try viewing a file usng the different status of 
Sysop, Asstsysop and twit. Can the sample user thats emboeaded in oaview be 
set to those levels? if so how?
I tried the setup exampls of this
set prm=c:\opus\bbs.prm
oaview welcome /user=RND
it only displays the test user that coms built in (ARGH! Smash Crash Bam!)
I tried /USER="Michele Marie Dalene~ and /user=1 (both are first user) Nada! 
is there a bug in Oaview 1.20 if so where can I get an update thats intended 
for Opus 1.73a?
        If You have a update to this program can someone send it. I am 
running out of patience. and you never saw a klingon/italian run out of 
patience. sigh ;( 
        On the issue of *.gbs files I have two questions:
        1. are these regular ANSI files as produced by the draw? What Opus 
1.73a user codes can be displayed in these?
        2. suppose I have a animated .GBS file. and have a static *.BBS file 
.which get displayed to which type of terminal type? dpes *.bbs get sent to 
AVATAR and TTY and the *.GBS get sent to ANSI?  I ask as I can find nice 
animated ANSI files which would be neat for the bbs. but I am aware that tty 
users would not benefit from the graphics.
        Also How come some .BBS files do not properly load into Thedraw 
despite being set for Avatar? My nice menus look like trash. and the colors 
are all muffed up. but when viewed with oaview 1.20 or oaview 1.79 they 
display correctly. Does The Draw 4.61 have a bug in the avatar loading 
routine?
       
                                 Michele Marie Dalene
 
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