Re: Thanks again
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Jan 18 2022 09:19 am
Hi DM - Just wanted to say thanks (again) for all your work on Synchronet.
You're very welcome. Thank *you* for all your mods/add-ons and testing/feedback!
I was just looking at the list of new changes in version 3.19 and it's fairly extensive. And one thing I like in 3.19 is the new FileBase class in JS. I've thought about writing some kind of lightbar file lister for a long time and haven't easily been able to without the FileBase support in JS (though a while ago, I saw echicken wrote a JS file lister that appeared to open the filebase files and extract information from them for use in JS).
Yes, echicken wrote an old filebase accessor class called, coincidentally, FileBase (defined in exec/load/filebase.js). It worked for read-only access to the old (v3.18 and earlier) file bases (
https://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/exec/load/filebase.js), so could have been used to write a file lister and was used in ecWebv4 for this purpose as well.
That FileBase class definition in filebase.js has now be renamed to OldFileBase (for cases where someone is depending on that specific API) to resolve the collision with the built-in class FileBase, in v3.19.
I imagine that we'll remove and deprecate load/filebase.js at some point since it's really unnecessary (so don't use it). :-)
Looking forward to seeing your new file lister mod!
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