Subj : Single key to switch command shells?
To   : Razor
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Feb 28 2010 11:04 pm

  Re: Single key to switch command shells?
  By: Razor to Digital Man on Sun Feb 28 2010 10:09 pm

 >   Re: Single key to switch command shells?
 >   By: Digital Man to Razor on Sun Feb 28 2010 05:25 pm
 >
 >  >   Re: Single key to switch command shells?
 >  >   By: Razor to All on Sun Feb 28 2010 08:47 am
 >  >  > I'd like to "quit" from my custom shell back to the "default" shell.
 >  >  > case 'Q':
 >  >  >     user.command_shell="DEFAULT";
 >  >  >     exit(0);
 >  > The setting of the command shell looks correct, but I don't understand
 >  > the use of exit(). Shells are not normally "nested". An exit() would
 >  > just stop the shell.
 >
 > Ahh, I was never executing the new shell.  I still don't quite have it, but
 > I might come back to that later.
 > Now I'm trying to choose a shell from logon.js & no matter which I choose,
 > I always get DEFAULT.  Here's my code for that.
 >
 > if(!console.noyes("Quick logon"))
 > {
 >         user.command_shell="RQSHELL";
 > }
 > else
 > {
 >         user.command_shell="DEFAULT";
 > }

You discovered a bug with the Synchronet JS "User" class, which I just fixed.
When setting the command_shell property, it was writing to the host_name /
computer property instead. If you get tonight's development build (dated mar-1)
this should be fixed.

                                            digital man

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