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    From HSM@FREESPEA to ALL on Tue Aug 16 20:44:00 2022
    Hi,
    I setup xtrnmenu and it work great until I include a custom menu screen. Without an external menu screen multi-digit selections "11,12,13, etc" work fine.
    Once an external menu (xtrnmenu_main.msg/ans) is added, you can no longer use double digit selections. 11 becomes 1... 12..1 never get past 1 :(
    What am I missing? Thanks!

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  • From Gamgee@PALANT to HSM on Tue Aug 16 21:51:00 2022
    HSM wrote to ALL <=-

    Hi,
    I setup xtrnmenu and it work great until I include a custom menu
    screen. Without an external menu screen multi-digit selections
    "11,12,13, etc" work fine. Once an external menu
    (xtrnmenu_main.msg/ans) is added, you can no longer use double
    digit selections. 11 becomes 1... 12..1 never get past 1 :(
    What am I missing? Thanks!

    I think you're missing the proper naming convention. Should be
    'xtrn1.msg', 'xtrn2.msg' ... 'xtrn13.msg'...

    See here:

    http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files#optional



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  • From HSM@FREESPEA to Gamgee on Wed Aug 17 06:57:00 2022
    On 16 Aug 2022, Gamgee said the following...

    HSM wrote to ALL <=-

    Hi,
    I setup xtrnmenu and it work great until I include a custom menu screen. Without an external menu screen multi-digit selections "11,12,13, etc" work fine. Once an external menu (xtrnmenu_main.msg/ans) is added, you can no longer use double
    digit selections. 11 becomes 1... 12..1 never get past 1 :(
    What am I missing? Thanks!

    I think you're missing the proper naming convention. Should be 'xtrn1.msg', 'xtrn2.msg' ... 'xtrn13.msg'...

    Nope. That's xtrn_sec. For xtrnmenu, xtrnmenu_(menuid).msg is correct and works. The screens display. So "main" menu has 15 items. If there is NO xtrnmenu_main.msg then 2 digit hotkeys work. Once xtrnmenu_main.msg is created it displays properly but you no longer can enter 2 digit hotkeys, it will begin launch on the first digit.

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  • From Gamgee@PALANT to HSM on Wed Aug 17 07:34:00 2022
    HSM wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I setup xtrnmenu and it work great until I include a custom menu screen. Without an external menu screen multi-digit selections "11,12,13, etc" work fine. Once an external menu (xtrnmenu_main.msg/ans) is added, you can no longer use double
    digit selections. 11 becomes 1... 12..1 never get past 1 :(
    What am I missing? Thanks!

    I think you're missing the proper naming convention. Should be 'xtrn1.msg', 'xtrn2.msg' ... 'xtrn13.msg'...

    Nope. That's xtrn_sec. For xtrnmenu, xtrnmenu_(menuid).msg is
    correct and works. The screens display. So "main" menu has 15
    items. If there is NO xtrnmenu_main.msg then 2 digit hotkeys
    work. Once xtrnmenu_main.msg is created it displays properly but
    you no longer can enter 2 digit hotkeys, it will begin launch on
    the first digit.

    Ahhhh, didn't realize that was a modification to the standard xtrn_sec.
    Not sure about the issue, but am assuming you've looked here:

    http://wiki.synchro.net/module:xtrnmenu

    As that is sort of a "third-party" addon, the support contact info is
    there at the top of that Wiki page...


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  • From Digital Man to HSM on Wed Aug 17 17:57:18 2022
    Re: xtrnmenu hotkeys
    By: HSM to ALL on Tue Aug 16 2022 08:44 pm

    Hi,
    I setup xtrnmenu and it work great until I include a custom menu screen. Without an external menu screen multi-digit selections "11,12,13, etc" work fine.
    Once an external menu (xtrnmenu_main.msg/ans) is added, you can no longer use double digit selections. 11 becomes 1... 12..1 never get past 1 :( What am I missing? Thanks!

    That'd be a question for xtrnmenu's author, Michael Long.

    The source for xtrnmenu's terminal server module is exec/xtrnmenu.js, and it appears to have some logic to accept multi-digit inputs, but perhaps that's broken when using an external menu display file.

    There's a lot of copy/pasta in that script I see too, so it's likely a bug that occurs in multiple places and thus may require multiple changes to fix.
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  • From Mlong to HSM on Thu Sep 8 06:16:45 2022

    HSM, I don't have a BBS anymore but I can work with you to get this fixed. Email me at mplong@gmail.com