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  • Re: AI-WX Weather Door

    From Chris Hizny@1:218/860 to Vincent Jacobs on Mon Jan 5 19:45:45 2026
    This is outstanding work. It's...kind of next-level.

    If anyone is interested in this and running Mystic on Linux, definitely check the FAQ file near the end:

    export TERM=pcansi

    was absolutely necessary, but once I added that, the display cleared up.

    I have a question. Currently, I'm testing with the following arguments:

    -D%P (door.sys hook)
    -I%4 (pass geolocated IP address of user)
    -U (show current conditions by default)

    It would be nice to have an option, upon exiting from the Current Conditions view, to drop to the main menu for the door, rather than out of the door entirely. I totally get why the default behavior is as it is (such as if you'd like to just show something during the login process) and then immediately continue on.

    However, for now at least, I'm running this from my Door menu, and it would be nice to show current conditions by default, then drop back to the menu for the door with the...almost shocking number of other options. If this is possible already, please let me know.

    Again, outstanding work. Getting weather working through DUAT back in the 90s was, for some odd reason, amazingly satisfying. This door you wrote is something else entirely.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (1:218/860)
  • From Vincent Jacobs@1:19/43 to Chris Hizny on Mon Jan 5 15:24:51 2026
    Re: Re: AI-WX Weather Door
    By: Chris Hizny to Vincent Jacobs on Mon Jan 05 2026 07:45 pm

    This is outstanding work. It's...kind of next-level.
    I have a question. Currently, I'm testing with the following arguments:

    -D%P (door.sys hook)
    -I%4 (pass geolocated IP address of user)
    -U (show current conditions by default)

    It would be nice to have an option, upon exiting from the Current Conditions view, to drop to the main menu for the door, rather than out of the door entirely. I totally get why the default behavior is as it is (such as if you'd like to just show something during the login process) and then immediately continue on.

    However, for now at least, I'm running this from my Door menu, and it would be nice to show current conditions by default, then drop back to the menu for the door with the...almost shocking number of other options. If this is possible already, please let me know.

    Again, outstanding work. Getting weather working through DUAT back in the 90s was, for some odd reason, amazingly satisfying. This door you wrote is something else entirely.
    * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (1:218/860)

    Thanks Chris, I appreciate the kind words, I really do. Currenty the door only runs executable command line parameters one at a time. But you could achieve something close to what you want with a batch/bash file. One line could call the -D%P -I%4 -U parameters as you are currently doing and then a second line could call the -D%P -I%4 -Q parameters that would drop the user to the Main Menu. It would not be as seemless as me doing it within code, but I think it would do what you want.

    Hope this helps,

    Vincent Jacobs
    Lone Wolf Software
    AI-WX Weather

    PS, I have a free door game I just finished available for download on my BBS at firesidebbs.com:23231. Look for the Shut the Box door game in the Lone Wolf Software file area. Versions for Windows and Linux.
    --- SBBSecho 3.23-Win32
    * Origin: Fireside BBS:23231 AI-WX Weather Door (1:19/43)