Hi DM,

I'm curious if the message reading functionality in your msglist.js can be integrated into Synchronet as the reader to be used for newscans, etc. via the Loadable Module mechanism? A while ago, you added a couple things that could be added in SCFG > System > Loadable Modules: The Scan Msgs and Scan Subs modules, which allow for running a message reader module rather than using the built-in stock Synchronet message reader functionality.

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Re: msglist.js and read/scan loadable modules
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Apr 23 2020 05:11 pm

Hi DM,

I'm curious if the message reading functionality in your msglist.js can be integrated into Synchronet as the reader to be used for newscans, etc. via the Loadable Module mechanism?

Not currently.

A while ago, you added a couple things that
could be added in SCFG > System > Loadable Modules: The Scan Msgs and Scan Subs modules, which allow for running a message reader module rather than using the built-in stock Synchronet message reader functionality.

Yeah, but the module would have to handle the scenarios in which thos module command-lines are invoked, and msglist.js currently, does not.

My initial was goal was for reading/replying to email and I still have a lot of work to go to have all the functionality I want for that feature set. Using it as a sub-board "list" module was kind of an after-thought, but it does work pretty good for that as of now. Some point later, I'll look into what it (msglist.js) would need added to support all the different scan-modes.

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Digital Man wrote to Nightfox <=-

My initial was goal was for reading/replying to email and I still have
a lot of work to go to have all the functionality I want for that
feature set. Using it as a sub-board "list" module was kind of an after-thought, but it does work pretty good for that as of now. Some
point later, I'll look into what it (msglist.js) would need added to support all the different scan-modes.

Thanks! I started using msglist.js and would also like to have that functionality/UI in newscans.


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Re: Re: msglist.js and read/scan loadable modules
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Fri Apr 24 2020 07:38 am

Digital Man wrote to Nightfox <=-

My initial was goal was for reading/replying to email and I still have a lot of work to go to have all the functionality I want for that feature set. Using it as a sub-board "list" module was kind of an after-thought, but it does work pretty good for that as of now. Some point later, I'll look into what it (msglist.js) would need added to support all the different scan-modes.

Thanks! I started using msglist.js and would also like to have that functionality/UI in newscans.

The main issue is that msglist.js reads every header of every message of the message base, before it does anything (so that it can sort/display all the associated metadata). Doing that for every message base during a new-scan would definitely slow things down. It's easy enough to just skip a base if there's no new messags, but to reload 10,000 message headers just so you can read that last one new message might be a bit overkill.

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Re: Re: msglist.js and read/scan loadable modules
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Apr 24 2020 05:53 pm

Thanks! I started using msglist.js and would also like to have that
functionality/UI in newscans.

The main issue is that msglist.js reads every header of every message of the message base, before it does anything (so that it can sort/display

all

the associated metadata). Doing that for every message base during a new-scan would definitely slow things down. It's easy enough to just skip a base if there's no new messags, but to reload 10,000 message headers just so you can read that last one new message might be a bit overkill.

Sounds like a possible candidate for a refactoring.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: msglist.js and read/scan loadable modules
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Apr 24 2020 10:40 pm

Re: Re: msglist.js and read/scan loadable modules
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Apr 24 2020 05:53 pm

Thanks! I started using msglist.js and would also like to have that
functionality/UI in newscans.

The main issue is that msglist.js reads every header of every message of the message base, before it does anything (so that it can sort/display all the associated metadata). Doing that for every

message

base during a new-scan would definitely slow things down. It's easy enough to just skip a base if there's no new messags, but to reload 10,000 message headers just so you can read that last one new message might be a bit overkill.

Sounds like a possible candidate for a refactoring.

Wasn't planning on it.

digital man

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