Subj : Menu Polling/Defeat Pause
To   : Corvey
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jan 17 2006 03:45 pm

  Re: Menu Polling/Defeat Pause
  By: Corvey to Digital Man on Tue Jan 17 2006 04:46 am

 > DM  > While sitting at the Ctrl-P prompt or the Inter-BBS prompt or while in
 > DM  > multi-node chat, instant messages and telegrams are received "instantl
 > DM  > Some
 > DM  > 3rd party command shells implement constant polling of messages at all
 > DM  > prompts.
 > 
 > C   > Ok, those prompt are what I like,  how can I make the main menu and ga
 > C   > men
 > C   > be "instantly" like the CTRL-P prompt?
 > 
 > DM  > The main menu, it depends on which command shell you're using. Basical
 > DM  > you
 > DM  > need an "inkey loop" instead of calling getkey. See the example in
 > DM  > sbbsimsg.js.
 > DM  > This same method can be applied to the prompts in exec/xtrn_sec.js
 > DM  > (external programs section).

 > In sbbsimsg.js I see:
 > 
 > "key=console.inkey(K_UPPER, 500);"
 > 
 > but I'm not sure in where in xtrn_sec.js to place code to make it work.
 > 
 > 
 > I am noob, can you be more precise, from and where to place code to make thi
 > work for me?

The first step would be to replace the line "xtrn_section" with "exec
?xtrn_sec" in each of your command shell source files (exec/*.src) and
recompile with Baja. Otherwise, the internal (native C) version of the external
program menu will be displayed instead of the exec/xtrn_sec.js module.

The second step would be to replace the 2 calls to console.getnum() in
xtrn_sec.js with a loop, similar to that found in sbbsimsg.js:

        while(bbs.online && !(bbs.sys_status&SS_ABORT)) {
                key=console.inkey(K_UPPER, 500);
        }

inside that loop you'll need to figure out what number the user is typing and
print that number, detect a carriage-return ('\r') and continue on the script.
If you have no programming knowledge or patience to learn, then this task is
probably beyond your abilities.

                                                  digital man

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