Subj : Variables declared in required libraries
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Sep 25 2019 02:25 pm

  Re: Variables declared in required libraries
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Sep 25 2019 01:37 pm

 > Hi DM,
 >
 > For SlyEdit, there are some global variables I define in one of the
 > required()'d scripts (i.e., in SlyEdit_Misc.js) that are used in SlyEdit.js,
 > and it has always worked fine.
 >
 > Today I updated my Synchronet binaries to the latest (September 25th) built
 > binaries (for Windows), and also updated my JavaScript scripts from CVS.
 > Then I noticed that when I try to run SlyEdit, it shows one of the variables
 > is not defined - it's one of the variables defined in SlyEdit_Misc.js.  For
 > SlyEdit.js line 150, I get an error saying gUserSettingsFilename is not
 > defined. gUserSettingsFilename is declared in SlyEdit_Misc.js as follows:
 >
 > var gUserSettingsFilename = backslash(system.data_dir + "user") +
 > format("%04d", user.number) + ".SlyEdit_Settings";
 >
 > I thought it might be my Synchronet binaries, so I reverted back to my
 > previous binaries (from September 7th), but I'm having the same problem.
 >
 > If I copy the declaration of gUserSettingsFilename into SlyEdit.js, I then
 > see a similar error that something else (a function declared in
 > SlyEdit_Misc.js) isn't defined in SlyEdit.js
 >
 > SlyEdit was working fine before I updated my binaries & .js files.  I
 > temporarily switched to another editor so I could type this message.  Do you
 > know what might have changed that may have caused this?

I moved some KEY_* defines from sbbsdefs.js to a new file: load/key_defs.js and in there added some CTRL_* key definitions that are commonly used (CTRL_A - CTRL_Z).

I'm guessing that one of your require() statements is checking for a symbol that's now defined by sbbsdefs.js->key_defs.js, so your load-lib isn't being loaded. Changing the symbol being checked for in the require() call should fix that.

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