Re: Replacing a text string to execute JS code directly
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Jan 29 2025 01:15 pm
Re: Replacing a text string to execute JS code directly
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Jan 29 2025 12:39 pm
Hi DM,
In the strings from text.dat, I know you can use @exec:..@ to have it run a JS or Baja module, but is there a way to have it directly execute a block of JS code instead of executing a file? In my most recent update to DDMsgReader, it replaces the AreYouThere string with an empty string so that the contents of the screen aren't affected, but I was also thinking of having it execute some JS code so that I'd have some more control on where the string is displayed, etc. I could have it execute a separate .js with @EXEC@, but I'm not sure I'd want to add a separate .js just for that. I'm wondering if there's a way to have it directly execute a block of JS code when used with bbs.replace_text()?
Not exactly as @-codes are pretty restrictive as to the contents (e.g. no space characters), so it'be pretty hard to put a code block within an @-code. One possibility is to define a JS property with a getter function and then you can invoke that getter function with the JS:propname @-code: https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:atcodes#external_content
Here's an example:
Object.defineProperty(js.global, "prop", {
get : function () {
return "hello, world";
}
});
bbs.replace_text("Pause", "@JS:" + "prop@"); // @-code split for posting console.pause(); // will invoke the global 'prop' getter function
In this example, the "prop" getter function could do more stuff and just return an empty string if that's what's desired.
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