Subj : bbs.smb_curmsg in messages to you
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu May 16 2013 12:32 am

  Re: bbs.smb_curmsg in messages to you
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed May 15 2013 06:01 pm

 >  >  > I've updated my development SlyEdit to use bbs.msg_number instead of
 >  >  > bbs.msg_offset, and it indeed seems to get the correct message header
 >  >  > even in cases where bbs.msg_offset didn't (such as when replying to
 >  >  > messages during scanning for new messages to you).  I'll release a
 >  >  > new version of SlyEdit with this change.
 >  >
 >  > But you do know that bbs.msg_number property doesn't work with any
 >  > version of Synchronet before the current development builds, right? Are
 >  > you handling that possibility (backwards compatibility) in your editor?
 >
 > But the Synchronet JavaScript documentation says bbs.msg_number was
 > introduced in version 3.10:
 > http://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html#bbs_properties
 >
 > Is that not the case?

It was, but as you reported, it didn't work. I fixed this on May 12th:
http://cvs.synchro.net/commitlog.ssjs#29419
In all versions prior to that, it would contain 0 unless the script was running 
*while* the message was being displayed (which is unlikely).

                                            digital man

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