• Intro

    From Wormwood@VERT/BITBRAIN to All on Tue Sep 20 21:07:30 2022
    Hello folks. Fellow programmer here and just thought I would introduce myself. These days I've been mostly working with javascript and golang.

    I haven't been on a BBS in years but I've been having a blast setting up this one. Thanks digital man for all the hard work on synchronet.

    It's only a matter of time before I start tinkering on some custom software (probably doors). Tips for a starting place would be greatly appreciated.

    https://bitbrain.life started as a sidequest to the day job. It's really just a sandbox tool at this point but I've got synchronet running on the server as well. web interface for the bbs is at https://bbs.bitbrain.life though the web telnet client is borked. something screwy is going on with the reverse proxy(nginx). i see the connection hit the backend but it just dies. If anyone has run into this I'd appreciate some insight. Any, nice to "meet" you all.

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  • From Charles Blackburn@VERT/FBOBBS to Wormwood on Wed Sep 21 08:35:23 2022
    Re: Intro
    By: Wormwood to All on Tue Sep 20 2022 21:07:30

    I haven't been on a BBS in years but I've been having a blast setting up this one. Thanks digital man for all the hard work
    on synchronet.

    hear hear!

    It's only a matter of time before I start tinkering on some custom software (probably doors). Tips for a starting place
    would be greatly appreciated.

    i'm just starting the same thing, but im no java(script) programmer at all... your best bet would be to take a look at the repo itself as well as the wiki.

    as far as doors, you can do something simple that just uses standard STDIO i/o under linux (not sure about *dows), for example, i have a simple python script i wrote that pulls weather station details from my work network (i work for a company with the largest private wx and lightning detection network in the world) and just pulls the data from one of my local stations.

    i have to now start working on how to get the "location" of the user so that i can customise it a little and also work out an ansi screen for it :D

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Charles Blackburn on Wed Sep 21 10:45:31 2022
    Re: Intro
    By: Charles Blackburn to Wormwood on Wed Sep 21 2022 08:35 am

    as far as doors, you can do something simple that just uses standard STDIO i/o under linux (not sure about *dows)

    Yes, stdio doors work on Windows too.
    http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Wormwood on Wed Sep 21 10:48:38 2022
    Re: Intro
    By: Wormwood to MRO on Wed Sep 21 2022 05:00 pm

    Re: Intro
    By: MRO to Wormwood on Tue Sep 20 2022 04:58 pm

    starting place for what?

    I guess just for getting started with door program development. I have browsed some of the projects in xtrn and it looks like most of them are in some kind of JS using whatever jsexec is.

    See http://wiki.synchro.net/util:jsexec

    Are there API docs some place?

    See http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:javascript

    Do
    people just run synchronet locally for testing/developing? Is it possible to run these apps directly from a linux tty?

    Some scripts can be run from a linux tty using jsexec *or* within the BBS terminal server, but since jsexec has a reduced object model from sbbs itself (e.g. no 'console' object), then such a script would either have to be minimal in its visual complexity or have special logic to run either mode.

    These questions are best-suited to one of the Synchronet-related message areas. --
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Wormwood on Wed Sep 21 11:38:20 2022
    Re: Intro
    By: Wormwood to MRO on Wed Sep 21 2022 05:00 pm

    I guess just for getting started with door program development. I have browsed some of the projects in xtrn and it looks like most of them are in some kind of JS using whatever jsexec is.

    jsexec is a command-line program included with Synchronet that runs JS scripts that use Synchronet's API, but they have to be written to work with the command line (not with a remote connected user). JS doors that interact with a remote connected user don't use jsexec, but rather are run by Synchronet itself when a user is logged in.

    Are there API docs some place?

    Yes:
    http://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html

    Do people just run synchronet locally for testing/developing? Is it possible to run these apps directly from a linux tty?

    When I'm writing a JS door for an online user, I just log into my BBS (as another user would do) to test it.

    As mentioned above, you can run JS scripts from a Linux tty with jsexec, but they'd have to be written a little differently to output to the tty rather than a remote user logged into the BBS.

    Nightfox

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  • From Wormwood@VERT/BITBRAIN to Digital Man on Thu Sep 22 13:34:18 2022
    Re: Intro
    By: Digital Man to Wormwood on Wed Sep 21 2022 10:48 am

    These questions are best-suited to one of the Synchronet-related message areas.

    Thank for all the info. I'll look at the other boards when more questions come up. I noticed the synchronet related programming subs were language specific and thought this board might be more general

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  • From Andy Alt@VERT to Wormwood on Sun Feb 26 14:28:00 2023
    Wormwood wrote to All <=-

    Hello folks. Fellow programmer here and just thought I would introduce myself. These days I've been mostly working with javascript and golang.

    Hi Wormwood. I'm mostly a C guy but had to learn some javascript to work on 0 A.D. random maps. :)

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