I'd like to thank Digital Man and echicken for the help they provided in the solving of my little project on creating a new 'Birthday' greeting.

With regard to the 'text.dat', even when I left it a blank string, the
screen would be blank and I'd have to hit enter to move on so what I did was add the following:

"\1_\1/\1yGuess what day today is!!\r\n\n" 329 HappyBirthday

I may colorize it at a later date but for now it's working.

I then created the 'birthday.js' with the following:

console.printfile(system.text_dir + 'birthday.asc');
var now = new Date().getTime();
var ubd = new Date(user.birthdate).getTime();
var age = Math.floor((now - ubd) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365.25)); console.putmsg('Congrats! You are now ' + age + ' years young!'); console.crlf();
console.crlf();
console.putmsg('From all of us at ' + system.name + '!');
console.crlf();
console.crlf();
console.pause();
console.clear();

Please note the birthday.asc can be no longer than 15 lines and it should be 'blocked' when saving.

I just quickly put together the birthday.asc and will be working on a more 'elaborate' design... :)

If it's your birthday, stop by and take a look!! :)

Thanks again to DM and echicken.

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Re: Special help...
By: Bill McGarrity to All on Sun Apr 15 2018 07:57 pm

I'd like to thank Digital Man and echicken for the help they provided in the solving of my little project on creating a new 'Birthday' greeting.

With regard to the 'text.dat', even when I left it a blank string, the screen would be blank and I'd have to hit enter to move on

Ah, thanks for the head's up. I'll address that case in an update to logon.cpp.


digital man

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Re: Special help...
By: Digital Man to Bill McGarrity on Sun Apr 15 2018 18:29:41

Hiya DM...

Ah, thanks for the head's up. I'll address that case in an update to logon.cpp.

Oh wow.... something good came of this afterall...

You're welcome..

Enjoy...

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Re: Special help...
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sun Apr 15 2018 09:34 pm

Re: Special help...
By: Digital Man to Bill McGarrity on Sun Apr 15 2018 18:29:41

Hiya DM...

Ah, thanks for the head's up. I'll address that case in an update to logon.cpp.

Oh wow.... something good came of this afterall...

Some years back I started to make most (all?) of the prompt/question text.dat lines optional (if they're blank, there's no prompt) - I just didn't notice or think of the HappyBirthday line.

You're welcome..

:-)

digital man

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Re: Special help...
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sun Apr 15 2018 09:34 pm

Re: Special help...
By: Digital Man to Bill McGarrity on Sun Apr 15 2018 18:29:41

Hiya DM...

Ah, thanks for the head's up. I'll address that case in an update to logon.cpp.

Oh wow.... something good came of this afterall...

Some years back I started to make most (all?) of the prompt/question text.dat lines optional (if they're blank, there's no prompt) - I just didn't notice or think of the HappyBirthday line.

There's 800 lines in the text.dat... not to mention how many lines of code in the software itself. I'm sure most will forgive you on this one. As I said, I just turned it into something different which works out just as well.

Thanks..


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