Subj : Re: Comparing BBS Software Again
To   : NuSkooler
From : Andre
Date : Wed Jan 27 2021 09:38 pm

On 27 Jan 2021, NuSkooler said the following...
 
 Nu> You can set hot keys for any menu items (e.g. how ESC often goes "back",
 Nu> or "N" relates to a "Next" menu in a message list). Menus can have
 Nu> prompts or not (depending how you build them).

When reading the docs earlier, I hadn't clicked through to the MCI section...
even if I did I was probably skimming too fast to have seen the Key Entry
piece. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

 Nu> What do you not like about the message reader? FWIW though, the one you
 Nu> get "out of the box" is just a default. You can make it work however you
 Nu> want.

Honestly, it's a pretty standard message reader. Change group, change area,
etc. I've been spoiled with the menu-driven message browser in Mystic, where
users don't have to know all that. They simply see different areas all in
the same screen (separated by section headings), then arrow around the echos
and enter/esc to go into or out of them. Doesn't seem wholly unlike msglist
for Synchronet.

Maybe all that is possible with Enigma. It's just such a steep learning
curve, partially because of doing it all in HJSON, partially because you've
built *so* many features for customization, that I haven't figured that out.


- Andre

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: Runaan BBS (21:3/117)

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