Subj : console.inactivity_warning in JS
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jan 25 2025 16:04:51

  Re: console.inactivity_warning in JS
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Jan 25 2025 02:18 pm

 >   Re: ctrl/sbbs.ini src/sbbs3/answer.cpp getkey.cpp inkey.cpp js_console.cpp
 >   By: Rob Swindell (in GitKraken) to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Fri
 > Mar 17 2023 07:26 pm
 >
 >  RS> - Removed JS console.inactivity_warning
 >
 > I'm curious why this was removed?  I may actually have a use for it in
 > DDMsgReader.
 >
 >  RS> MaxSessionInactivity (default: none/unlimited) - Each configured
 >  RS> external program/door in SCFG can have its own maximum inactivity
 >  RS> setting (or else the session max inactivity is applied)
 >
 > Was console.inactivity_warning removed  because of this change?

No, the configurable warning duration was changed from being a number of seconds value (which was problematic in some cases) to being a percentage of the maximum inactivity. I could calculate the configured warning duration and make that a read-only property, if that'd be useful.

 > DDMsgreader
 > could be set up as a loadable module, where there is no setting for a
 > maximum inactivity.  In that case, it seems to be using the inactivity
 > setting which I believe is configured in SCFG > System > Advanced Options >
 > Maximum User Inactivity?

If "it" is console.getkey() and getstr(), yeah.

 > I had some custom input logic I wrote for DDMsgReader years ago, before
 > KEY_PAGEUP and KEY_PAGEDN were added to key_defs.js.  Since those are there
 > now, I am considering using console.getkey() instead of my own input
 > function. One thing I'm running into is that after the 'Are you really
 > there?' text is displayed and I press a key, the display of things gets a
 > bit wonky in DDMsgreader, like the cursor has moved which has pushed things
 > around a bit. I'm thinking if I had a way to detect that the 'Are you
 > there?' warning was displayed, maybe I could refresh the screen to make it
 > look proper again.

You could override the AreYouThere text.dat string to maybe execute some JS code that does what you need/want?

 > For instance, I made a few screenshots:
 > Reading a message, before the 'are you there' text (looks good):
 > http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/reading1.png
 > 'Are you really there?' - Still looks okay:
 > http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/reading2.png
 > Then when I press a key, things get a bit wonky - It looks like everything
 > gets pushed up a few lines:
 > http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/reading3.png

I'm not surprised since DDMsgReader is a "full screen" type script. You could either set the AreYouThere text.dat string to blank, in which case the InactivityAlert text.dat string is sent instead (just some beeps as I recall), or replace AreYouThere with something that works better for a full screen script.
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