Hello Bo.

09 Jun 03 13:31, you wrote to me:

 MG>> I would really like to see a major re-development of Squish, maybe
 MG>> incorporating an areafix utility, and GUI interface similar to
 MG>> Fastecho. Maybe even a file ticker, since hpt has one incorporated as
 MG>> well...

 BS> After maximus is working well, you might see a development with Squish..
 BS> But i won't (and wesley niether i guess) make a graphic user interface,
 BS> textfiles is more flexible.

You can make it output text based configs as usual, but the advantages of a
GUI interface are ease of use, as it can be made to use global commands,
which can save a user of the tosser a lot of mindless repetition work,
especially if one has a large setup of echos. By outputing the traditional
SQUISH.CFG and ROUTE.CFG files, it would be backwards compatible, and would
satisfy those who prefer to use the text configs. A GUI interface can do
other things as well, like create a custom batch file to call the tosser,
set message base limits, or check and repair damaged message bases.

 BS> And a fileticker... well for the Linux people there is only one whitch
 BS> still is beeing developed, and it's htick, but it require 3 extra
 BS> liberies, and if you only would use it as a fileticker, it has a big
 BS> configuration...

 BS> A shame i'm not good at pascal, else i would do some developing at
 BS> Protick.

The ticker is an afterthought; not everyone needs one. I believe NEF is
open source now as well, and it has some integration with the SMAPI.

 MG>> I still feel that Squish is the most flexible and dependible tosser
 MG>> out there. If updated to todays standards, it'd be hard to beat.

 BS> hmm.. it satisfied about hpt.. but then we got sqafix ported to Linux, i
 BS> would maybe use Squish.

But not everyone is satisfied with hpt, and not everyone is solely
interested in Linux development. You need to stop thinking in traditional
Linux text-based config terms, that sort of thing turns a lot of potential
users of a program off; that much certainly has been shown to be true with
hpt.

I feel any decent development should be a multi-platform approach, as it
allows the sysops freedom of choice. SQAFIX is an excellant program, if it
could be integrated tightly with Squish in a GUI interface, it'd be even
better.

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