Edit existing message

  Re: Message base: Editing existing messages
  By: Nightfox to All on Thu Jun 11 2009 03:57 pm

 > Hi all -
 >
 > One of the toggle options for a message area is whether or not a user can
 > edit existing messages.  I've been looking at Synchronet's JS documentation
 > trying to find a function that will allow a user to edit an existing
 > message, but the docs don't seem to mention a function that would do that.
 > Is
 > there a way to do that in JavaScript?

If you're looking for a high-level method (where it automatically uses the user's configured editor, etc.) there is no such function. You can however load the message's text (using the MsgBase class) into a buffer, save to a file, then use the console.editfile() function to edit the contents, load the file contents back into a buffer an duse the MsgBase class to save the modified message body.

It's probably not worth the effort. :-)

The C++ method that would need to be exposed via JS (and isn't) is sbbs_t::editmsg() and it wouldn't be trivial to do since it needs an open message as an argument. I'll add it to the to-do list however.

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