Subj : Another modding idea...
To   : Time Warrior
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 03:18 pm

  Re: Another modding idea...
  By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Tue Oct 04 2005 01:15 pm

 > I dont know if this could be feasably done for v4 or if this would be more o
 > a headache that its worth, but here goes.
 > 
 > For people who can code in js, it would be cool to be able to add features t
 > things like the Synchronet GUI, SCFG, SBBSecho and anything else under the
 > sun WITHOUT needing to code as imaculately as you do.
 > 
 > Maybe with an update to the JS OBJECT MODEL, these SBBS Config Mods could
 > simply be run as JS Synchronet Services. They wouldn't run on a "port" they
 > would simply just "run".
 > 
 > Well, if someone coded a deamon (which is ALREADY possible) it would.
 > However, this would allow people to append the configs in things like SCFG
 > and SBBSCTRL.
 > 
 > Take Cyan's Synchronet IRC, for one example.
 > 
 > It would be cool to be able to go into SCFG and under "Chat Features" you
 > magically now see an option that says "Internet Relay Chat Server".
 > 
 > Just a thought. What does everyone *else* think?

Well, as the *nix guy who deals with not having sbbsctrl, I think adding stuff
to the GUI is bad... win32 people will do that instead of adding to scfg.

Adding to SCFG however has promise... we do plan on adding uifc support to JS
(that's the menuing system) and it could for example allow running of JS
scripts from ctrl/scfg/ or as specified in the ctrl/scfg-addons.ini or
whatever.

Keep this one in mind.

Another bit I plan on adding at some point is an easy way to configure a door
from JS... this would mean a door could be distributed with a JS script which
sets it up for you... and somewhere like doors.synchro.net could make these
downloadable etc.


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