As discussed in IRC the other day, i've made a few updates to my Spitfire command shell. https://github.com/xbit44/spitfire-cs

When using bbs.menu_dir to redirect menus to a shell subfolder, some internal menu calls in external scripts (like multchat in chat_sec.js and logoff screens) also look in the subfolder and fail. Is there a way to have our custom menus display from the shell subfolder while letting these internal/system menus fall back to the default text/menu location?

The problem i think i'm having is chat_sec.js calls bbs.menu("multchat") internally while menu_dir is still "spitfire". I think the advice works for single-level calls but chat_sec.js makes its own nested bbs.menu() calls that I can't seem to intercept.

So for example, my chat menu works but when i click J i get an error that the menu can't be found as its looking in /text/menu/spitfire. I think this is my last menu issue, but we'll see.


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Re: command shell question
By: xbit to All on Wed May 27 2026 11:13 am

As discussed in IRC the other day, i've made a few updates to my Spitfire command shell. https://github.com/xbit44/spitfire-cs

When using bbs.menu_dir to redirect menus to a shell subfolder, some internal menu calls in external scripts (like multchat in chat_sec.js and logoff screens) also look in the subfolder and fail. Is there a way to have our custom menus display from the shell subfolder while letting these internal/system menus fall back to the default text/menu location?

The problem i think i'm having is chat_sec.js calls bbs.menu("multchat") internally while menu_dir is still "spitfire". I think the advice works for single-level calls but chat_sec.js makes its own nested bbs.menu() calls that I can't seem to intercept.

So for example, my chat menu works but when i click J i get an error that the menu can't be found as its looking in /text/menu/spitfire. I think this is my last menu issue, but we'll see.

Your Claude misinterpretted my advice. My advice as to set bbs.menu_dir before calling any internal (hard-coded in C++) section or module you don't want to copy/modify and then reset it immediately after, e.g.:

bbs.menu_dir = "spitire";
bbs.qwk_sec();
bbs.menu_dir = "";

bbs.menu_dir = "spitfire";
bbs.chat_sec();
bbs.menu_dir = "":

And everywhere your script (already) calls bbs.menu() directly, just continue to pass subdirectory in the path:

bbs.menu("spitfire/main");
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