Subj : Re: Menushell.js
To   : HusTler
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Aug 24 2020 09:29 am

-=> HusTler wrote to Underminer <=-

 > Oh, undoubtedly. I was just trying to suggest that if someone were coming in
 > new with no previous programming experience, Baja seems to me like it might
 > feel more accessible. :) --- Underminer

 Hu>  I appreciate what you are saying Underminer. The coders want to
 Hu> argue which is better Baja or JS. As a BBS Sysop I am interested
 Hu> in Customizing the looks of the BBS. The cosmetics so to speak. I
 Hu> also want to do this without crashing the damn thing because I'm
 Hu> messing with internal code. As a dumb SysOp I would love to see a
 Hu> menu editor built in to Synchronet like so many other BBS
 Hu> packages. But that's never going to happen. The Synchronet coders
 Hu> are going to claim how easy it is to write Baja and Javascript.

You don't need a menu editor to have custom menus.  I know 
virtually nothing about either JS or Baja, and pretty much every 
single menu / disply file on my system is custom.  Make an ANSI 
menu with something like TheDraw (or Moebius or Pablodraw), and 
then convert it (with the utilities included with SBBS) into an 
ASC or MSG file.  Done.

Also, I have made some fairly minor changes to the default.src 
menu shell file, and recompiled it with Baja.  Extremely simple to 
do (instructions on the Wiki), and no programming skill required.  
It's just a text file and it's very obvious how to edit it for 
minor changes.

Get out of the box and learn something.



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