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MATRIX ppe history v 1.20 >NUV has been BROKEN due to numerous changes/additions. If you >are upgrading from older versions make sure all users currently >waiting for validation on older NUV versions are voted in/out >(Use the sysop option if you must) and then install the new >matrix. >Since I haven't been using the NUV I haven't had much incentive >to improve it lately (mind you, it works fine as I have had >numerous reports/comments etc) and there have been some better >new NUV PPEs out lately I've decided to do some major work/ >testing on that part of the MATRIX. (I guess I needed a good >kick in the butt to start working on this thing ;). > >Also, if you've created some infoforms for use with the old >(X,Y,Len) .cfg files you'll have to recreate them for use >by the new '*' codes style ansi files. After the initial >burden of this I think you'll enjoy the new style. For >some information on how to create these infoforms see MX.DOC. Nuv and matrix now read new user security from pcboard.dat (registered user security, line 149 of pcboard.dat) instead of using options in the .cfg files. Changed nuv to be able to delete the user and/or move his name to the unwanted file (of the matrix) so a user cannot apply again. Added a simple 148.ppe PPE to replace prompt 148 (password prompt) and insert some other appropriate text (mxtext, line 10) Changed NUV to check apply.vip (used by the matrix to not ask the NUP) and if the applying user is found his security is immediately upgraded as if he were voted in. Added a command line parameter /NEWONLY to the NUV.PPE. When the NUV.PPE sees this and the user is a normal (no new user) user it will just exit. Use this if you don't want to bother your users each time they logon with the NUV. Removed the ability of the NUV ppe to change votes already made, some people mentioned this was undesireable, and besides it made the code too complicated for it's own good, and it's reliability I'm looking for now. Added a /FORCE command line to the NUV which forces the NUV to be run even if the user has voted on all users. Added a NUV option to force users to vote on all users (nuv.cfg, line 1). Added an abstain vote option to the NUV. Added the display of your vote for users already voted on in the main voting menu. Changed the comment functions when voting. Now users can enter up to 3 lines for one comment instead of just one line. Added the display of location/group information (replacement code %C% in GRAPH\NUVMNU#) to the voting menu. Removed some old matrix menus from the standard distribution and changed the nuv/feedback/infoform menus with some of the menus I use (This was long overdue as some menus were kinda ugly). Changed the color of all those dark red prompts etc to normal red (Didn't like the color anymore and it wasn't as visible as it probably should be). Added the display of needed yes/no votes to the voting display. Added the display of the voting status to NUV ppe when a new user logs in again. This uses the file GRAPH\NUVSTAT which can contain the following replacement codes: %NO% - No votes so far. %YES% - Yes votes so far. %NON% - Total no votes needed for removal/deletion %YESN% - Total yes votes needed for validation After being shown the stats the user is only disconnected if so setup (nuv.cfg, line 3). Changed the display of the voting status of the matrix to use the same files as the NUV ppe. Changed the nuv to check if a user with low security (lower than the new user security) logs in and if so optionally show him a message that he was voted out and disconnect him (nuv.cfg, line1, token 4). Made the 'do you want to vote' question when not enforcing NUV optional. Changed the INFOFORM.PPE to use the '*' style that's popping up everywhere. Just felt I had to keep up :-). Read mx.doc for a quick explanation on how to create these infoforms if you're unfamiliar with them... Added ansi coordinates configuration of each lightbar option instead of giving the upper left coordinate. Additional coordinates of externally added matrix options (external.cfg) have to be added to EACH matrix coordinate definition line in LIGHTBAR.CFG. Got a couple of comments about the sysop option of the matrix being a nuisance, and I've also noticed quite some users fooling around with it at the matrix, so I've removed it from the standard distribution. If you still want it you'll have to add it to EXTERNAL.CFG yourself (and edit the mxs# files of course) Added small NONUV.PPE. This little ppe was added for Il Padrino who didn't want to use NUV. All it does is display the file GRAPH\NONUV to a newuser and then disconnects him. Use this in your logon (preferrably a security specific logon script, so it won't slow down the logon process for normal users). Added full alias PSA support when applying to the matrix. It now will ask for an alias if so setup, instead of requiring that aliases are disabled for a new users. Added a protocol selection PPE for use by the matrix. A simple modification allows this PPE to be used at the normal pcboard 'T' prompt too, if you want it you can request it from me as I'm not releasing it (there are lots of those PPEs available and I don't want to be a copycat) Matrix now also checks if the alias query at application is disabled through pcbsetup (even though it's setup in PWRD). Also a check is made if the sysop has name confirmation setup (who in his right mind would use this with a matrix, but then again, you never know :) Added detection of the system option in pcbsetup that does not allow one-word names. The matrix will now enforce this option is setup. This was requested by a sysop that actually enforces two names (yes really). Fixed a possible NUV ppe problem when users have an empty location/city string. This should probably never happen but it's best to prevent disasters. Fixed a bug with page.ppe. If the user tried to page unsucessfully and he had the emergency pwd to try again the from/reason fields were positioned incorrectly. When entering some names with characters like '*' etc pcboard would not accept those chracters and filter them out, so I changed the name input to not accept these. Also problems could occur when creating the form files etc for the user with some characters that could not exist in files (eg. , and .), all these characters are now filtered out. Fixed a stupid mistake which would result in NUA mail not being posted, sorry about this, but that's why I'm so for BETA versions, these kind of things are bound to happen with so many changes.. Found and fixed a small problem with the page.ppe where the paged indicator would not be set after requesting an emergency pwd after an unsuccessfull page. Changed the NUV to not give an error message when a user being voted on doesn't have the new user security, but simply continue the voting without updating the securities, this to prevent problems when users have been upgraded manually (eg. through pcbsm). The same holds for the sysop voting, so that you can vote users either in/out only to delete them from the NUV after manually having changed their security. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Private versions v0.3ß Initial version. v0.4ß Added lots of logging code. Added configuration of the numbers shown in the infoform menu. v0.5ß Added language support. You can add new language textfiles or display files in the graph directory and they will be recognized. v0.6ß Added multiple sysops at feedback. Added ability to use non standard lightbar menu options. To make the different menus look better. Private versions (limited testing release) v0.7ß Added dos matrix mode, I don't like it but got some requests for it so here it is. v0.8ß1 Added some options to the dos mode. Moved all dos mode text to mxtext and added a dos.cfg to configure the dos matrix. Changed the dos mode command interpretation to accept spaces before a command (i.e " dir" will be recognized). v0.8ß2 Moved the feedback and infoform functions to seperate ppe's. The two external ppe's are fully functional and can be used as seperate doors. Documentation for these to be written at a later date.... Changed the checking of the password (if password psa present) according to the documented changes in 15.1ß. v0.8ß3 Added windowing functions to the feedback and infoform ppe's. This allows for an indefinite number of menu options without everything scrolling off at the top. Documentation still needs updating.. Got some requests for nuv, will try to code it for the next version. v0.9ß Since some people can't seem to live without nuv I've added a new user verification ppe. I've used the same windowing functions as for the infoform/feedback ppe's for this one. I've not tested this much especially since I don't use nuv. So I'll need feedback on this one from you guys... Added optional page command. Cleaned up code a bit. First public release v1.0ß This is a major beta code test release. Changed page command to allow sysop to press escape to abort paging. Added answer files in the apps dir with more readable infoform answers (with questions and spacing) Changed nuv code to move the voting files to subdirs 'IN' or 'OUT' after a user is voted in or out. After thinking about the nuv I noticed that there can be some ugly race conditions, especially when running nuv at the same time and trying to vote for the same users. I think I've worked around them so that no inconsistent voting files remain. For example if you vote for a user and while you were voting another user voted him in or out the nuv ppe will notice this and not display some strange message or mess up the voting files, it will however log this so the sysop can note this and check if everything is ok. I tested these conditions in a desqview environment. If you find any problems of this nature please let me know immediately!!! v1.0ß2 Added VIP file support. Applying users will skip the nup password if they're found in the VIP file. Someone noticed that the protocol was always assumed as an application question (that's the way I've got it set up) even though it can be turned off through pcbsetup, fixed. Changed logging code to look more like pcboard does it. Saw that I forgot to recompile the last ß1 infoform ppe without the debugging code, if you got some strange behavior from that one, sorry :-). External ppe's (feedback/infoform/page) did not stop logging if logging was disabled at the matrix, fixed. No wait was executed after showing the disclaimer, fixed. Added some time adjustment options to mx.cfg to prevent pcboard from bothering users too fast with the '# mins to auto disc' . Added a sysop ppe to change some options and view the logs. v1.03 (This version never saw the light as I decided to recode large portions of the matrix in version 1.10) Added a continue option to the feedback ppe. Added some misc options to the dos matrix such as clear screen at startup, show dir at startup etc.. Added some header files which are shown before the login, application and access check handle prompts, someone requested this. Removed the external ppe's options from mx.cfg and added 'external.cfg' which allows you to define as much external commands as you want. Replaced ctrl-pgup, '<' as pgup and ctrl-pgdn, '>' as pgdn keys for the feedback/infoform/nuv ppe's. Changed the nuv ppe to not show up if the user has no undecided votes. If the user does have undecided votes 'graph\nuvvot' will be shown and he will be asked if he wants to vote now. Added some of the matrix files I use on my bbs to the standard distribution. If you've got any cool lightbar matrix files send them to me. Also put in some welcome files with (better?) fonts. Added logging code to sysop.ppe. Also found a small bug in the password menu, fixed. Added 'HOME' and 'END' key to the lightbar matrix. Bug found and fixed in the nuv ppe where if a user was voted in/out the nuv would exit and not return to the nuv main menu. If someone voted the last user in/out NUV wouldn't exit. Added 'graph\nuvdisc' which will be displayed by the nuv when a newuser is disconnected. Changed the QUIT function to not hangup if the matrix was executed by a user already logged on. v1.10 Decided to do some major recoding to make ALL menus/prompts fully configurable and randomizable. All new configuration files will be put in the directory 'CFG' and all the menu text files will be put in 'MNUTXT'. I decided to do it this way to fully support multiple languages (yes also in the menu text)!! For users of older version this means that the text in feedback.cfg and infoform.cfg has been moved to 'mnutxt\fbmnu' and 'mnutxt\frmmnu' respectively. This unfortunately turned out to be quite some work, so that I suspect some (hopefully) minor glitches might turn up. Added a help option ('?') to ALL lightbar menus. Major NUV change. Changed the voting to also make use of a lightbar menu, display the comments immediately etc. Seems much better than before. Changed nuv/feedback/infoform to ONLY beep at the user, someone reported this annoying feature ;). Changed feedback to allow newline to be entered as part of a message. Some people were annoyed about this. '/S' now stops the input. Inserted the sysop ppe in the lightbar and dos matrix using external.cfg. The ppe will only run if the user running it has at least sysop security and on top of that it will also ask a sysop password. Added an optional logoff confirmation question (mx.cfg, line 13) and logoff file display. Added a sysop option to the NUV ppe. Now the sysop can vote a user in/out immediately. Also if the yes/no votes required is set to 0 the NUV will wait before finally voting someone in/out until the sysop has decided what he wants. Again this was a request. Keep on the good work everyone. Some lines in some .CFG and *TEXT files are not used anymore. Please do NOT change or remove any of these lines even if it says that they're not used anymore, I've left the places open for future enhancements. Finally decided to release v1.10 after letting the test sites sweat it out for a couple of weeks. v1.11 Added hotkeys to the NUV voting menu. The first character read from the menu is used as a hotkey (color codes not included), this way any language can be used. Removed all references to Nosferatu from the lightbar matrix menu files (GRAPH\MXS#), this was on request by someone who did not want to edit these each time, happy now JuKo ;). Changed the page command in mx.cfg so that it also checks if the page command is in the matrix directory if it is not found. When installing the matrix this prevents that the page path in mx.cfg needs updating. Fixed small logging typo. Found a quirk in pplc where it would say that a user was logged on after using getaltuser. When using my NUV ppe you can use line 14 of mx.cfg to let the matrix show the voting status when a new user checks access. This was on request by Charlie Echo. Some users were having problems with the dos matrix showing up when some PPEs were run. Finally found out what the problem was. The dos matrix sometimes would leave a savescrn (save screen) hanging and when another PPE was run (like the flag.ppe) which called restscrn at the start the hanging savescrn would be shown (In my opinion PPEs shouldn't use restscrn without being sure that they have already called savescrn, it's asking for trouble ;))... Added an emergency password option to the PAGE.PPE. The files used are GRAPH\EMER#. Changed the randomize function to randomize better (on request) in all the PPEs. Added a dos command line error counter to prevent users from fooling around too much at the command line (dos.cfg line 10, token 4).