two posts in one: online and my code

i'm not sure what the state of my code is at this point...

the background routine displays the background properly
the menu routine displays the menu functions properly
before running the menu routine you have to run that shell dir code i made.

of course you still have to dim the array in the main module and probably as global shared.

is everyone ok with that? is someone going to change the three things into three SUBs?

of course the part of the menu code that sets the array to hardcoded strings will have to be removed. the shell dir part takes care of that function now.

just asking bc it works as well as it should. if someone is waiting for me to do something else... oh, i just like being on the same page.

about online>>>>>

making strings for email is clever. they should be easy enough to encode... change everything to hex and then use rot(13+5) or something. stay in the alphabet+numbers. easy to code, easy to decode, hard to accidentally read even if you can read hex.

you CAN make a cgi with qb. if mac doesn't want that i can't blame him. you can also interact with a cgi using wget (free open source, console app) and shell. all my online stuff i use that.

when the referee is a finished project if someone wants to make a version that does online stuff i dont see why they can't. i still have a qb program i made that simulates chat... but uses the internet and wget. in fact it uses a free voy forum for reading and writing.

when ref is done i can offer some minimal assistance to the ubergeeks that want to adapt it to kriegspiel. the minimum is all i have patience for :)