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  • DDAreaChooser glitch

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Wed Dec 17 07:45:14 2025
    I decided to add Araknet back to my BBS. I created the message section,
    then imported the areas via a .NA file. The areas imported just fine,
    but when I looked at them in the BBS, there was the message section I
    created called ARAKNET. Inside of that was another section called
    Araknet. Inside that section were all of the areas I'd created.

    Odd.

    I tried adding them manually, the same thing happened.

    I noticed that the .NA file description was

    "Araknet: Area Description"

    and that the area description on the BBS was

    "Area Description"

    So, it seemed that the area chooser was parsing the name and making a subsection out of the part of the description preceeding the colon.

    When I edited the .NA file to remove the colons between "Araknet" and the
    area description and re-imported the areas, they imported the way I'd
    expect - ARAKNET message section, which included all of the areas at the
    root of the section.

    Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but it could come in handy -
    especially with large file libraries.



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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Wed Dec 17 10:28:49 2025
    On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:45:14 -0800
    "poindexter FORTRAN" (VERT/REALITY) <VERT/REALITY!poindexter.FORTRAN@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    I decided to add Araknet back to my BBS. I created the message
    section, then imported the areas via a .NA file. The areas imported
    just fine, but when I looked at them in the BBS, there was the
    message section I created called ARAKNET. Inside of that was another
    section called Araknet. Inside that section were all of the areas I'd created.

    Odd.

    I tried adding them manually, the same thing happened.

    I noticed that the .NA file description was

    "Araknet: Area Description"

    and that the area description on the BBS was

    "Area Description"

    So, it seemed that the area chooser was parsing the name and making a subsection out of the part of the description preceeding the colon.

    When I edited the .NA file to remove the colons between "Araknet" and
    the area description and re-imported the areas, they imported the way
    I'd expect - ARAKNET message section, which included all of the areas
    at the root of the section.

    Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but it could come in handy - especially with large file libraries.

    It's not a glitch. It's a feature.

    In DDMsgAreaChooser.cfg

    ; Whether or not to enable name collapsing. For
    ; example, for groups or sub-boards in a group starting with
    ; common text and a separator (specified below), the
    ; common text will be the only one displayed, and when
    ; the user selects it, a 3rd tier with the sub-boards
    ; after the separator will be shown
    useSubCollapsing=false
    ; The separator to use for sub-board collapsing
    subCollapseSeparator=:
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