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  • Re: bbs.menu vs bbs.menu_

    From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to nolageek on Wed Jan 15 02:49:00 2020
    nolageek wrote to Digital Man <=-

    At minimum, a .asc or .msg menu display file is required. bbs.menu() first looks for the *most* applicable file format, not all file formats.

    But it will find .ans - I guess I expected bbs.menu() and bbs.menu_exists() to work with the same formats so they could
    work together.I could convert I gues (but then I'd have to always
    convert back and forth to edit them.) Are .msg and .asc faster or
    are they "more native" to synchronet? Just curious.

    http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files



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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Gamgee on Wed Jan 15 07:06:00 2020
    Re: Re: bbs.menu vs bbs.menu_exists
    By: Gamgee to nolageek on Wed Jan 15 2020 07:49 am

    http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files

    Well I know that. I was just wondering why bbs.menu_exists() didn't test for the same set of menu types that bbs.menu() can display. It was just unexpected to have it not find my .ans. I really don't want to keep multiple copies in different formats and convert menus back and forth every time I have a new one made or make a change (especially while I'm in the process of making a lot of changes.)

    Either way, I just wanted to ask since it seemed inconsistant at the time, but I'm sure there's a reason so I'm not looking to die on this hill. :) I'm using a slightly less hidious way of accomplishing what I was doing, but not as readable as if I could have used bbs.menu_exists(); It's still down to 3 lines of code as opposed to 6 or 7 like it was before so yay. :)

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to nolageek on Wed Jan 15 08:21:00 2020
    Re: Re: bbs.menu vs bbs.menu_exists
    By: nolageek to Gamgee on Wed Jan 15 2020 12:06 pm

    Re: Re: bbs.menu vs bbs.menu_exists
    By: Gamgee to nolageek on Wed Jan 15 2020 07:49 am

    http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files

    Well I know that. I was just wondering why bbs.menu_exists() didn't test for the same set of menu types that bbs.menu() can display. It was just unexpected to have it not find my .ans. I really don't want to keep multiple copies in different formats and convert menus back and forth every time I have a new one made or make a change (especially while I'm in the process of making a lot of changes.)

    Either way, I just wanted to ask since it seemed inconsistant at the time, but I'm sure there's a reason so I'm not looking to die on this hill. :) I'm using a slightly less hidious way of accomplishing what I was doing, but not as readable as if I could have used bbs.menu_exists(); It's still down to 3 lines of code as opposed to 6 or 7 like it was before so yay. :)

    You really should use bbs.menu_exists() as it's doing the right thing. If you have a non-ANSI user and call bbs.menu() for a menu file that has no .msg or .asc equivalent, that user is just going to see an error message (no menu). Not a very good user experience.

    digital man

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