Subj : Re: To Digital Man
To   : Sinister x
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 01:07 pm

  Re: Re: To Digital Man
  By: Sinister x to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Aug 02 2005 03:56 pm

 > > > Will v4 have external message reading and external file listing support?
 > >
 > > It's on the list. :-)
 > 
 > Very cool, one of my big projects I have planned in the near future when v4
 > becomes available is to port over the entire code behind the outzone over to
 > synchronet. That essentially entails creating a command shell (that's the
 > easy part), a fullscreen message reader, and a file lister. I'm also going
 > to be making a command shell for oBV/2 (that one I can already do). Is there
 > a way to "theme" ansi's that are outside of the command shell, based on
 > whatever the current command shell is?

The idea for the future is that basically everything is "inside the command
shell", or at least, it's a customizable JS module. So if you want the message
reader (or whatever) to display differently based on the user's current command
shell, that should be totally doable.

 > For instance if a user does the oBV/2
 > command shell I want a different ansi displayed for the message reading
 > header than if the user was on say the DOS command shell.

I don't see any reason why not. You could do that today with the xtrn_sec.js
or chat_sec.js modules (as an example).

 > > Well when the message reading code is "externalized", it can be modified
 > > and
 > > extended to do all kinds of stuff (like that).
 > 
 > This brings me to a question about user id's. Are they permanent or can they
 > change when there's a deletion from the user list and you pack it?

They're permanent.

 > One way I
 > was thinking about storing user settings is to have separate directories for
 > each user based on user number.

If you save them in data/user/####.* (#### = user number 0-padded to 4 digits),
it will be automatically "managed" by Synchronet (e.g. deleted if/when the user
account is deleted). This is how the web/ssjs theme settings files are managed,
for example.

                                                  digital man

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