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To: Digital Man
Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Wed Oct 22 2025 09:22 pm

I don't recall avatars.js being designed to run via jsexec. Although it might, that's not really the intention - you run it as a timed event.

Does jsexec run js scripts differently than how they're run as a timed event? Sometimes I've written js scripts that I intend to run as a timed event, and to test them, I'd run them with jsexec.

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To: Nightfox
Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Oct 23 2025 07:22 am

Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Wed Oct 22 2025 09:22 pm

I don't recall avatars.js being designed to run via jsexec. Although it might, that's not really the intention - you run it as a timed event.

Does jsexec run js scripts differently than how they're run as a timed event?

Yes - there's no console or bbs object and many of the global I/O functions behave somewhat differently when run in jsexec.

Sometimes I've written js scripts that I intend to run as a timed
event, and to test them, I'd run them with jsexec.

I do too and usually that works, but its easy to make a script that doesn't work (or look) the same when run in JSexec.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Oct 23 2025 10:10 am

Does jsexec run js scripts differently than how they're run as a timed
event?

Yes - there's no console or bbs object and many of the global I/O functions behave somewhat differently when run in jsexec.

Ah, I was pretty sure there's no console object when run with jsexec.. Is there a console object when run as a timed event?

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Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Oct 23 2025 10:40 am

Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Oct 23 2025 10:10 am

Does jsexec run js scripts differently than how they're run as a timed
event?

Yes - there's no console or bbs object and many of the global I/O functions behave somewhat differently when run in jsexec.

Ah, I was pretty sure there's no console object when run with jsexec.. Is there a console object when run as a timed event?

There is a console and bbs object instatiated when a .js file is invoked within sbbs (timed event or otherwise), yes.
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Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Wed Oct 22 2025 09:47 pm

Yeah, I think I misunderstood it a bit when I posted this, probably still do, but on another level. In a nutshell it lookslike your text/avatars/ isn't really much more "saturated" than mine, I may be missing the zeus_ii one. Maybe the sharing
level isn't too high and those .ini files are mostly 'private' avatars if you will not designed to be imported. At least
t my current understanding. On the plus side, I did make a buttload of avatars and I think I shared them, I have more
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Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Hm Derdoc to Digital Man on Sat Oct 25 2025 01:58 am

Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Wed Oct 22 2025 09:47 pm

Yeah, I think I misunderstood it a bit when I posted this, probably still do, but on another level. In a nutshell it lookslike your text/avatars/ isn't really much more "saturated" than mine, I may be missing the zeus_ii one.

Maybe there's something wrong with your SYMCDATA message base. All those JS/JSON errors you posted indicate you have an issue. Did you resolve that issue?

Maybe the sharing
level isn't too high and those .ini files are mostly 'private' avatars if you will not designed to be imported. At least
t my current understanding. On the plus side, I did make a buttload of avatars and I think I shared them, I have more

Cool.

You probably want to fix your QWKnet tagline too:
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To: Digital Man
Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Sat Oct 25 2025 02:34 pm

You probably want to fix your QWKnet tagline too:

Ok, I think I did now. Somehow somewhere I set a qwknet_tagline= property in my msgs.ini file that was set to that string, so no matter what I did in SCFG, those overrides were there for each sub. Kinda cool that you can do that actually. But hopefully I just have a non-wonky tagline with color now :)

Can I see my tagline on my own BBS? I never do..

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Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Hm Derdoc to Digital Man on Sun Oct 26 2025 06:21 pm

Can I see my tagline on my own BBS? I never do..

Yes, with the "I" command from the reading messages prompt.

Your tagline is leaving a background color set, which is not ideal.
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