Subj : Question about logon event
To   : mlong
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Oct 18 2020 12:34 pm

  Re: Question about logon event
  By: mlong to Digital Man@VERT on Sun Oct 18 2020 12:24 pm

 > I'm wanting to modify bullshit so that it can show only new bulletins on
 > logon, but show all bulletins when accessed from the external menu.
 >
 > My first though was adding a cmd line argument that would override the ini
 > setting. The issue is that when you choose logon event under the external
 > program, you can't specify any different cmd line arguments. So I either
 > have to have 2 external program entries (with different cmd line options),
 > or disable the logon event under the external program and instead use the
 > global logon event entry in scfg.
 >
 > So my question is can you think of a better way to do this? Is there a way
 > for an external program to determine it is running under the logon event?

You could compare bbs.node_action to see if its value is NODE_LOGN, that would indicate the current node is still logging-on.

 > Or
 > is there some way to specify different cmd line arguments for external
 > program events? Maybe a new % command line specifier?

I think the bbs.node_action check would be the cleanest solution and require no change to sbbs.

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