Subj : Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
To : All
From : Karloch
Date : Sun Oct 26 2008 12:20 pm
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post about it, as I think that
Javascript code is correct, maybe it is a bug in the Javascript interpreter.
The problem is that since upgraded to lastest build Synchronet (3.15 I think).
Bullseye doesn't seem to be working rightly. Whatevet I select a bulletin to
display it says "Invalid bulletin number". I switched the Bullseye program from
the Baja one to the Javascript version, as I understand js better and could
take a look to the code (the problem was still there, no matter the switch).
It looks like the problem is related to the File.position property, at lines 41
and 42:
mode=file.readln();
filepos=file.position;
The former reads the first line of bullseye.cfg correctly, retrieving the
number stored there, but them for some strange reason, the latter line stores
in filepos the number -4. Being file.position the offset in bytes of the file
and as the first line is just a character (4 bytes), it doesn't make much sense
to be "-4", it should be "4". From that point the program won't work correctly
as it will never enter in the loop:
