• Re: External Program Menus

    From Michael Long@1:103/705 to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Oct 9 14:43:48 2020
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 8:38:28 PM UTC-4, Digital Man wrote:
    Yes, xtrn_sec.js is already in JS and you could certainly refactor it to
    displays groups and sub-groups of external programs, or support searching/filtering/sorting based on whatever criteria you come up with.
    I've got a working prototype going which allows defining any number of enhanced menus (as I am calling them) which exist solely in a JSON config file. These menus can point to other enhanced menus (so unlimited levels), to the existing xternal section menus, or directly to external doors, and these can all be mixed and matched. It is also not limited to the numeric input keys of the stock menu, but you can define any key for any of the menu items (except Q obviously). If there is interest from others or if you are willing to consider merging this back in, I'll work on polishing it up and supporting all the various config options/text files/etc the stock one does. I am also mulling over writing a menu config editor (maybe trying to use the UIFC stuff) to make it easier to setup the menus
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