Re: bbs.scan_msgs()
By: echicken to Khelair on Sat Aug 23 2014 01:31:27
What behaviour are you trying to implement, exactly? There is (usually) enough functionality in the JS API to do just about anything you need to, messagebase-wise.
Well, I actually ended up following through on my [too oft] pattern of thinking that I had looked well enough, asking a question, and then finding out I've got to go grab a beverage to wash my foot down my mouth all the way.
I'm looking to implement a very simple message scanning function; it basically has the exact same functionality as bbs.scan_msgs(), but with a much more terse set of headers, and specific color sets. It's exceedingly simple, I'm just trying to implement the look and feel of a much more limited BBS system for some people that I know who were displaced from their close-knit, generation-spanning time on a now [practically] extinct BBS family line.
I haven't spent a whole lot of time, previously, looking into APIs in order to find out what I'm dealing with for functionality. My experience is really piecemeal, and when I've had to learn other codebases before I've had to do it primarily from digging through raw, relatively uncommented code.
Once I started spending some more time (after what I saw that you wrote here causing me to question myself a bit more) looking through the API, I started realizing that msg_area.* might be able to provide the low level functionality I'm looking for. Right now I'm implementing it from a level of just writing my entire scan_subs() clone, iterating through all of the user's potential groups/subs with a structure like this:
for each (uGrp in msg_area.grp_list) {
for (var subNdx = 0; subNdx++;
subNdx < msg_area.grp_list.length) {
//etc etc etc
}
}
Please note, I haven't looked at that code since my sleep-deprived time last night, if there's a stupid error please don't make too many quick assumptions, I catch a lot of shit my first time running a script, usually.
Unless you're going to modify the source, or are really interested in the vast innards of Synchronet, there isn't much point in looking there. The information is in the JS object model docs, though it's not always obvious. Let us know what you want to do and we can point you in the right direction.
Well I am curious as to its internals, but I'm almost certainly not going to be modifying the internals now. I'm planning on looking into the innards more, at some point, for some functionality that I want to change slightly or add, but most of it is well above my level right now.
If you've got any comments or suggestions on what I'm doing right now it'd certainly be appreciated. :)
Thanks for your info so far!
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