Subj : Re: Reading files directly
To   : All
From : Nelgin
Date : Wed Sep 21 2022 13:38:39

On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:39:04 -0700
"Digital Man" <digital.man@VERT> wrote:

>   Re: Reading files directly
>   By: Charles Blackburn to All on Sat Sep 17 2022 04:17 pm
> 
>  > All
>  >
>  > I'm looking at writing some programsand i figured i would start by
>  > looking at the message base as that's the easiest thing to do
>  > right now... read/list etc.
>  >
>  > i found the structures definition here
>  > (http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html) but for the life of me the C
>  > structs that are listed in there are not valid that I can tell as
>  > for example, you can't have a flexible array that's not at the end
>  > of the struct. They would need a length definition.  
> 
> They're valid structs since empty arrays are pointers in C. If you
> want to see the actual C structure definitions used in SMBLIB, see
> smbdefs.h.
> 
>  > So unless i'm missing something, is there a definitive  SDK or
>  > header file i can use that has the correct structures in them?  
> 
> Yes, SMBLIB.
> 
>  > i'm not a C programmer, although i do know the basics, but i would
>  > also rather code in python, but there's no echo for that :P  
> 
> You'd save a lot of trouble by using the Synchronet JavaScript
> MsgBase class instead. It's *much* easier for reading/manipulating
> message bases than what is necessary in C or C++.

https://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html

In case you don't have this link, I'd highly recommend bookmarking it.
This gives you easy access to a lot of syncrhonet objects. Pretty much
all the end-user produced scripts are done in javascript. If you know C
or C++ then it shouldn't be difficult to transition to JS.
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