Subj : Replacing a text string to execute JS code directly
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Feb 08 2025 10:02:35

  Re: Replacing a text string to execute JS code directly
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Feb 07 2025 09:26 pm

 >>  If the getter is returning an empty string, I'm not sure what's causing
 >> the  display to become messy.  This does not happen if I replace
 >> AreYouThere with  a simple empty string as follows:

 >>  bbs.replace_text(AreYouThere, "");

 DM> Probably because of this logic in the getkey():

 DM>    if ((sys_status & SS_USERON) && *text[AreYouThere] != '\0') {
 DM>       attr(LIGHTGRAY);
 DM>       carriage_return();
 DM>       cleartoeol();
 DM>       restoreline();
 DM>    }

 DM> So you'll probably want to bbs.replaceText(AreYouThere, "") in the getter,
 DM> so you don't have this carriage-return, CLR-TO-EOL and restore line stuff
 DM> going on.

That works. Thanks!

Nightfox

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