Subj : Baja to JavaScript conversion guide
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jul 16 2009 03:58 pm

  Re: Baja to JavaScript conversion guide
  By: Nightfox to All on Thu Jul 16 2009 03:47 pm

 > Hi - I was wondering, is there a guide for converting Baja code to
 > JavaScript somewhere that someone could point me to?  I'm working on
 > converting my Baja command shell to JavaScript, and I've been able to
 > figure out some of the JavaScript equivalents to what I'm doing in my Baja
 > code, but it seems that a guide might make it easier.  For instance, one of
 > the Baja functions is GETKEYE, which gets a key and also allows slash
 > commands, but I'm not sure what the equivalent would be in a JavaScript
 > module - The console object has inkey(), getkey(), getstr(), getnum(),
 > getkeys(), and gettemplate(), but I'm not certain if one of those can
 > perform the same functionality.  It seems that gettemplate() might do it,
 > but the docs don't seem to specify the format of the template to pass to
 > that function.

No, there is no guide (beside that of the combination of baja.html and
jsobjs.html) and the example code in CVS (e.g. exec/classic_shell.js).

Deuce wrote a getkeye() method in JS (exec/coldfuncs.js) which looks like it
should be the functional equivalent of the Baja GETKEYE function.

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