Subj : Re: bbs.curgrp
To   : Tracker1
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jul 06 2004 08:28 pm

  Re: Re: bbs.curgrp
  By: Tracker1 to Digital Man on Mon Jul 05 2004 12:53 am

 > > Tracker1 and I recently went over this. The bbs.curgrp and bbs.cursub
 > > properties are 0-based, and are relative to the groups/subs the current
 > > user has access to.
 > >
 > > I'm not sure what you mean by "it doesn't save". If you set the variable
 > > to a value, and then read it back, you don't get the value you wrote?
 > 
 > I think that it doesn't restrict the groups/subs appropriate to the user's
 > security.. it seems to show them all when you enumerate the arrays.

Please post example code that proves this. I've tested it myself and it works
correctly.

 > maybe if there was a setSub(SUB_CODE) command that set to the first group/
 > sub that matched (presuming no dupe sub_code's) .. and returned true on
 > success, false on fail ...  or setSub(grp_number,sub_code) ...

There was a bug in one of your JS modules (I forget which) where it was trying
to set the cursub/curgrp property as a string (instead of a Number). This is
probably the root cause of whatever problem you're having.

                                                  digital man

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