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     Re: Message Area Menu   
     By: Nightfox to Vela025 on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:09 pm   
      
    >   Re: Message Area Menu   
    >   By: Vela025 to Nightfox on Wed Mar 05 2025 08:09 pm   
    >   
    >  Ve> Thanks both, it took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted it   
    >  Ve> but your input has been incredibly helpful. I decided to go for the   
    >  Ve> adding an extra section to default.js and as suggested used the   
    >  Ve> existing const main_menu= { section to help model the new const   
    >  Ve> msg_menu = { section. It seems to be working great, however for   
    >  Ve> node_action: in the msg_menu section I have left this as NODE_MAIN, but   
    >  Ve> notice in file it is NODE_XFER. Is it ok to leave this as NODE_MAIN or   
    >  Ve> should I look in to how to create a NODE_MSG (or similar).   
    >   
    > I think the node_action helps mainly with logging, as it would point out   
    > what the user is doing (I don't remember offhand if there are other ways it   
    > helps). In my command shell, I set node_action to NODE_RMSG (reading   
    > messages) in my message menu, but you could keep it as NODE_MAIN if you   
    > wanted to, I suppose.   
      
   The node action is used for node status displays (e.g. by other users, MQTT   
   clients, monitoring programs like sbbsctrl):   
   https://wiki.synchro.net/ref:node_status   
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