Subj : Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
To : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Nov 01 2017 03:40 pm
Re: Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Nov 01 2017 03:24 pm
> Re: Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
> By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Nov 01 2017 01:01 pm
>
> > Hi DM,
>
> > With my JavaScript message reader, I've noticed I'm getting a weird error
> > when I try to reply to a poll message. My reader allows voting, but I
> > wanted to also reply to the poster of a poll message with some comments.
> > My script calls bbs.post_msg() to post the reply, and I pass it the
> > sub-board code, reply mode, and message header. On that line, I get the
> > following error:
>
> > Error: can't convert 2147483648 to an integer
>
> > Just before that line, I tried having my script output the sub-board
> > code, reply mode, and message header properties. The number that it was
> > outputting appears to be the auxattr property of the message header. But
> > when my script outputs that information, it generates a different error
> > when it calls bbs.post_msg():
> > Error: line 865 js_ParseMsgHeaderObject js_msgbase.c JS_GetPrivate failed
>
> > So it seems something odd is going on if it gets a different error just
> > by outputting some information before calling that function. The
> > sub-board code looks right, and the reply mode value it's using is 64.
> > I'm not sure what might be wrong. My reader doesn't have a problem
> > replying to normal messages; this is only happening when replying to a
> > poll message.
>
> Have you tried it with a different poll?
>
> I suspect the problem is with a poll whose results are "closed" (not visible
> until the poll has been closed), as that sets bit 31 of the auxattr header
> field and there's an issue converting that in JS.
I just committed what I hope is a fix. Please try it and let me know. I suspect
this problem only occurs with polls whose results-visibility are set to
"closed".
digital man
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