Re: Synchronet (was: TBBS)
  By: Eric Oulashin to Rob Swindell on Thu May 12 2016 19:08:24

 RS>> Of course, I've seen and used other BBS software which always wanted
 RS>> the user to "pick" a message to begin reading and I
never liked that
 RS>> design, probably just because it's just not what I was used to.

 RS>> So it's great that you were able to design something more to your
 RS>> liking and integrate that with Synchronet for your users and other
 RS>> sysops who prefer a different take on traditional BBS message
 RS>> reading. The fact that you were able to do that (and of course, I
 RS>> had to make enable some external "hooks" and probably
fix some bugs
 RS>> along the way to make it more "seemless") is a
testiment both to
 RS>> your programming abilities and the extensiblity of Synchronet. 

My reader actually works similarly to Synchronet's internal reader as far as
opening with a message and allowing forward & back navigation, etc. - But it
does allow displaying the message list and jumping around to different
messages.  Also it provides the ability to scroll up & down in a message (only
for ANSI users; it does fall back to a traditional interface for non-ANSI
users).  My reader is based on an earlier script I wrote which always started
up with the message list rather than starting in a message.

Eric
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