Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Sinister x
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Aug 21 2005 09:03 pm

  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: Sinister x to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Aug 22 2005 00:54:00

 > Speaking of which, I was perusing the source, and wanted to give you guys a
 > hand in externalizing the msg reader and file lister in synchronet (I know
 > that's on the list for v4). I see the functions for the msg reader itself
 > and where the command keys get processed etc etc. The major problem though
 > is that the reader does an update of scan pointers and other nice stuff
 > which is all internal and so you can't just make a call to an external
 > reader and have it do everything you need. The JS Object Model would have to
 > be updated I presume to allow functions for updating the scan pointers while
 > in the middle of a message reading session. That was the major one I think,
 > but there could be others iirc if the message reading interface has to
 > obtain and collect the queries itself on the message base listing. Any ideas
 > where one might start in implementing such an interface and what else I
 > would need to allow for changes? I presume the user config would have to be
 > updated, and so would scfg (for adding externals).

I'm pretty sure you can update scan pointers from JS already...

Yeah, msg_area.grp_list.sub_list[].scan_ptr

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