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diff --git a/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js b/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js
index d62af2cb83b1be2312ce5afc28c7670f58456747..7ad2a6b921600ef2d12cd44d3f4337bd75584b26 100644 (file)
--- a/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js
+++ b/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ function forum_readmessages(target_div, min_msg, max_msg)
                        if ((this.status / 100) == 2)
                        {
                                msgs = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
+
                                document.getElementById(innerdivname).innerHTML =
                                        "Are we logged in? " + logged_in + "<br>"
                                        + "Last seen: " + last_seen + "<br>"
@@ -78,13 +79,20 @@ function forum_readmessages(target_div, min_msg, max_msg)
                                                document.getElementById(innerdivname).innerHTML += "FIXME no msgs" ;
                                }
 
+                               // If we were given an explicit starting point, by all means start there.
+                               // Note that we don't have to remove them from the array because we did a 'msgs gt|xxx' command to Citadel.
+                               else if (min_msg > 0)
+                               {
+                                       msgs = msgs.slice(0, msgs_per_page);
+                               }
+
                                // show us the last 20 messages and scroll to the bottom (this will become the not-logged-in behavior)
                                else if ((logged_in) | (!logged_in))
                                {
                                        if (msgs.length > messages_per_page)
                                        {
                                                msgs = msgs.slice(msgs.length - messages_per_page);
-                                               document.getElementById(innerdivname).innerHTML += "link to msgs less than " + msgs[0] + "<br>" ;
+                                               document.getElementById(innerdivname).innerHTML += "<div id=\"older_msgs\">link to msgs less than " + msgs[0] + "</div>" ;
                                        }
                                }
 
@@ -93,6 +101,7 @@ function forum_readmessages(target_div, min_msg, max_msg)
                                        document.getElementById(innerdivname).innerHTML +=
                                                "<div id=\"ctdl_msg_" + msgs[i] + "\">message #" + msgs[i] + "</div>" ;
                                }
+                               document.getElementById(innerdivname).innerHTML += "<div id=\"newer_msgs\">link to msgs greater than " + msgs[msgs.length-1] + "</div>" ;
                        }
                        else
                        {