Subj : Re: DDMsg and DDFile area choosers
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Nov 01 2020 06:43 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: DDMsg and DDFile area choosers
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Oct 31 2020 09:58 pm

 Ga> Okay, I've done some further testing, and have found that the
 Ga> prior version I was using (dated 2019-08-24 ver 1.19) works fine.
 Ga> Without changing anything else, if I drop in the newest DDMsg and
 Ga> DDFile (.js and .cfg), it does not work with the "false" command
 Ga> line parameter added. Same default.src/.bin with both.

 Ga> So it seems that something is not liking the word "false" with the
 Ga> latest version that comes with Git... Thanks.

 Ni> When you say "drop in the newest" ones, do you mean you were
 Ni> using older ones?  What versions worked, and which don't?  If you
 Ni> open one of the .js files, near the top, it has a variable that
 Ni> stores which version it is.  For instance, the message area
 Ni> chooser has this (for version 1.20):

 Ni> var DD_MSG_AREA_CHOOSER_VERSION = "1.20";
 Ni> var DD_MSG_AREA_CHOOSER_VER_DATE = "2020-04-19";

On the latest SBBS, installed yesterday from Git, version 1.20 
does not work, and version 1.19 does work.

When I say "does not work", let me clarify...  It works *except* 
when you try to pass the command line parameter "false".  I'm 
doing that in a modified command shell, like this:

cmdkey *
        exec "?DDMsgAreaChooser.js false"
        end_cmd

That command line results in a brief screen flash when the * key 
is pressed, but no other action.

The exact same command shell works fine if I replace the DD files 
(two .js and two .cfg) with the 1.19 versions.  The .cfg files are 
un-modified in both cases.

 Ni> I haven't updated them since before the switch to Git, and the
 Ni> latest I've committed was 1.20.  So there should be no difference
 Ni> between the latest from CVS and the latest from Git.  So if
 Ni> there's some behavioral difference, I'm not sure if Git itself
 Ni> would have anything to do with that - Different line endings, a
 Ni> different text encoding, etc..

Not sure what's happened either, but just letting you know what 
it's doing for me.  This is on Linux if that matters.  It seems 
that they (both DDFile and DDMsg) are not liking the word "false" 
being passed on the command line.



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