Re: scanning new messages at logon not working
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Mar 04 2023 01:20 pm

 > Subject: scanning new messages at logon not working
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 > All,
 >
 > I'm trying to have a message echo called local.sysop act as a logon bulletin
 > screen. I want users, when logging in, to automatically see new posts in
 > that message area.
 >
 > I tried creating a door that runs at the logon event, and it calls a
 > javascript file newscan.js that calls bbs.scan_msgs:
 >
 > bbs.scan_msgs("LOCAL.SYSOP", SCAN_READ);
 >
 > I'd like the messages to show once. The behavior I'm seeing is that it
 > continues to display the last message in the message area every time I log
 > in.

You'd want to use SCAN_NEW mode then, not SCAN_READ.

 > Is there a way to create a forced newscan of one message area like I'm
 > envisioning?

I think so.

 > Or, even better, a way to only display the *last* message in one message
 > area, just once?

No. I would probably just set the max messages for the sub-board to 1 if you only want one message to normally be in there.
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