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    From Vela025@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Wed Mar 5 20:09:27 2025
    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Nightfox to Vela025 on Mon Mar 03 2025 11:10:22

    Thanks both, it took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted it but your input has been incredibly helpful. I decided to go for the adding an extra section to default.js and as suggested used the existing const main_menu= { section to help model the new const msg_menu = { section. It seems to be working great, however for node_action: in the msg_menu section I have left this as NODE_MAIN, but notice in file it is NODE_XFER. Is it ok to leave this as NODE_MAIN or should I look in to how to create a NODE_MSG (or similar).

    Thanks again!
    Ed

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Vela025 on Wed Mar 5 18:43:16 2025
    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Vela025 to Nightfox on Wed Mar 05 2025 08:09 pm

    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Nightfox to Vela025 on Mon Mar 03 2025 11:10:22

    Thanks both, it took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted it but your input has been incredibly helpful. I decided to go for the adding an extra section to default.js and as suggested used the existing const main_menu= { section to help model the new const msg_menu = { section. It seems to be working great, however for node_action: in the msg_menu section I have left this as NODE_MAIN, but notice in file it is NODE_XFER. Is it ok to leave this as NODE_MAIN or should I look in to how to create a NODE_MSG (or similar).

    I suggest using NODE_RMSG ("Reading messages") for your shell's message section node action.
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  • From Vela025@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thu Mar 6 21:44:11 2025
    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Digital Man to Vela025 on Wed Mar 05 2025 18:43:16

    I suggest using NODE_RMSG ("Reading messages") for your shell's message sect > node action.

    Great, thank you!

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Vela025 on Thu Mar 6 14:09:02 2025
    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Vela025 to Nightfox on Wed Mar 05 2025 08:09 pm

    Thanks both, it took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted it but your input has been incredibly helpful. I decided to go for the adding an extra section to default.js and as suggested used the existing const main_menu= { section to help model the new const msg_menu = { section. It seems to be working great, however for node_action: in the msg_menu section I have left this as NODE_MAIN, but notice in file it is NODE_XFER. Is it ok to leave this as NODE_MAIN or should I look in to how to create a NODE_MSG (or similar).

    I think the node_action helps mainly with logging, as it would point out what the user is doing (I don't remember offhand if there are other ways it helps). In my command shell, I set node_action to NODE_RMSG (reading messages) in my message menu, but you could keep it as NODE_MAIN if you wanted to, I suppose.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Fri Mar 7 01:07:49 2025
    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Nightfox to Vela025 on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:09 pm

    Re: Message Area Menu
    By: Vela025 to Nightfox on Wed Mar 05 2025 08:09 pm

    Thanks both, it took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted it but your input has been incredibly helpful. I decided to go for the adding an extra section to default.js and as suggested used the existing const main_menu= { section to help model the new const msg_menu = { section. It seems to be working great, however for node_action: in the msg_menu section I have left this as NODE_MAIN, but notice in file it is NODE_XFER. Is it ok to leave this as NODE_MAIN or should I look in to how to create a NODE_MSG (or similar).

    I think the node_action helps mainly with logging, as it would point out what the user is doing (I don't remember offhand if there are other ways it helps). In my command shell, I set node_action to NODE_RMSG (reading messages) in my message menu, but you could keep it as NODE_MAIN if you wanted to, I suppose.

    The node action is used for node status displays (e.g. by other users, MQTT clients, monitoring programs like sbbsctrl):
    https://wiki.synchro.net/ref:node_status
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