Hi DM,

Today I noticed there's a bbs.edit_msg() function that was added in Synchronet 3.18. I tried calling that with a header for an existing message in a sub-board. When my editor came up, it was empty. Should it be editing the existing message contents?

I'm running today's Synchronet build (March 23, 2022) for Windows.

Nightfox

Re: bbs.edit_msg() - Empty message
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Mar 23 2022 04:38 pm

Hi DM,

Today I noticed there's a bbs.edit_msg() function that was added in Synchronet 3.18. I tried calling that with a header for an existing message in a sub-board. When my editor came up, it was empty. Should it be editing the existing message contents?

Yes, that's how I use it in msglist.js:

bbs.edit_msg(list[current]);

And that list[] value is a returned object from MsgBase.get_msg_header().

I'm running today's Synchronet build (March 23, 2022) for Windows.

Me too. :-)
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Re: bbs.edit_msg() - Empty message
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Mar 23 2022 05:45 pm

Today I noticed there's a bbs.edit_msg() function that was added in
Synchronet 3.18. I tried calling that with a header for an existing
message in a sub-board. When my editor came up, it was empty. Should
it be editing the existing message contents?

Yes, that's how I use it in msglist.js:

bbs.edit_msg(list[current]);

And that list[] value is a returned object from MsgBase.get_msg_header().

I'm also passing it an object from MsgBase.get_msg_header(). Does it need to have expanded fields or anything?

Nightfox

Re: bbs.edit_msg() - Empty message
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Mar 23 2022 08:11 pm

Synchronet 3.18. I tried calling that with a header for an existing
message in a sub-board. When my editor came up, it was empty.
Should it be editing the existing message contents?

Yes, that's how I use it in msglist.js:

bbs.edit_msg(list[current]);

And that list[] value is a returned object from
MsgBase.get_msg_header().

I got it to work. It seems the MsgBase object associated with the header needs to still be open for it to work (even though you aren't passing the MsgBase object to edit_msg()).

Nightfox

Re: bbs.edit_msg() - Empty message
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Mar 23 2022 08:11 pm

Re: bbs.edit_msg() - Empty message
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Mar 23 2022 05:45 pm

Today I noticed there's a bbs.edit_msg() function that was added in
Synchronet 3.18. I tried calling that with a header for an existing
message in a sub-board. When my editor came up, it was empty. Should
it be editing the existing message contents?

Yes, that's how I use it in msglist.js:

bbs.edit_msg(list[current]);

And that list[] value is a returned object from MsgBase.get_msg_header().

I'm also passing it an object from MsgBase.get_msg_header(). Does it need to have expanded fields or anything?

Nope.
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