Subj : Re: good afternoon asking about baja and menu shells
To : Accession
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Jul 09 2024 08:03 pm
-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-
G> That's great info, and thanks Nightfox for taking the time to post that.
G> Saved for future reference, and greatly appreciated.
Ac> Now to answer your original question, if you're currently using
Ac> default.src, I do believe there's a default.js that you can just switch
Ac> to now. Should be in the repo:
I'm using a somewhat customized shell, where I edited the default.src to
change/remove a few things.
Ac> Then, rather than trying to completely learn javascript in order to do
Ac> anything with Synchronet like some say to do, just look at some of the
Ac> stock .js files, and if interested, copy one to your mods directory.
Ac> Then, slowly tinker with it with easy things like
Ac> bbs.menu("ansi_name_here"); to display an ansi or console.pause(); to
Ac> add a pause prompt, etc. The Synchronet Javascript Object Reference
Ac> page will tell you just about anything and everything you can use.
Great idea, yes. I of course didn't know "baja source" either, but was
able to adjust things just based on exactly what you're describing here.
Ac> If you mess anything up, you can simply remove the one from your mods
Ac> directory, or copy the original from the exec directory to your mods
Ac> directory again (overwriting whatever you broke) and start over.
Ac> I'm still not even close to being mediocre at javascript by any means,
Ac> but I can do what I need to do to make the BBS look the way I want it
Ac> to.
Perfect, and thanks for the boot to wake me up. Not sure why I didn't
think of that myself, as it's exactly what I did with the default baja.
Appreciate it!
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