Subj : Re: setTimeout and data storage
To   : Xeanalyth
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Jul 20 2012 12:37 am

 > setTimeout is not defined?  How does one go about executing
 > timed events?

on http://www.roughneckbbs.com/Downloads.aspx  download, and look into the S3
shell... basically all the input prompts are doing a 1 second timeout, then
checking for other stuff (this allows for inbound messages at a command
prompt).

 > Secondly, is there a standard way for SBBS apps (doors, utils and
 > other things) to store arbitrary data in a database style format?
 > I cannot find anything in the API documentation that looks like
 > it's supported.

Depends on what you need... if all you need is a key/document store... you can
create a directory for your app's data, and put  ####.json files... JSON.js
should work fine for serialization/deserialization.

 > If there isn't... what are other people using for their persistent
 > data stores for extensions to and doors for SBBS?

generally people are using text configs, serializing json, doing something
custom, or shoe-horning in a database client driver...  I wrote a connector
for ADO.Net requests at one point... at the time I was using XML, before a
version of spidermonkey with E4X support, or for that matter the boom of
JSON... didn't perform well enough at the time.. ymmv.

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