Subj : Another modding idea...
To   : Deuce
From : Time Warrior
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 12:59 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Deuce
  Re: Another modding idea...
  By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Tue Oct 04 2005 09:55 pm

 > To: Time Warrior
 > 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 mor
 >  > a headache that its worth, but here goes.

 >  > For people who can code in js, it would be cool to be able to add feature
 >  > things like the Synchronet GUI, SCFG, SBBSecho and anything else under th
 >  > 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" th
 >  > 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 SCF
 >  > 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 stu
 > 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 J
 > (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.

 You could always *force* it that if it is going to be added to the GUI that 
it MUST ALSO be added to SCFG first otherwise their implimentation will break 
hard. I don't beleive we should disallow adding to the GUI but I at the same 
time also agree with you as well.

 Some of you really need to learn to think more along the lines of middle 
ground opinions so people can have their cake and eat it too. lol

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

 That would be pretty cool. If the JS also includes DOSEMU configs for doors 
then that will reduce the amounts of horror stories, i'm sure.

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