ISketch on your forum <Now works for everyone>

[UltimateOreo!]

This simply puts the very cool online pictionary Isketch (www.isketch.net) on your board. It is much easier to make a contest out of it, group together as a community in a room, Or just simply play it from your board! Might even boost registrations a little bit :D. I do plan on adding a simple shoutbox for added communication. It also includes a feature*OPTIONAL* that if they are on the page, it will display "Playing Isketch" on /online.php.
PLEASE CLICK INSTALL IF YOU USE THIS!
Support will only be given to users who click install, and will only be given in this thread.

Version history

1.0- Initial Release
1.1- Fixed bug disabled logging in.
2.0 Now should be fixed for everyone, added suggestion in the thread,

[harmor19]

I think this is good but in my opinion it'll get boring quickly.

[UltimateOreo!]

Oh, I love it. Dont get bored at all. I guess you just have to play long enough to get addicted.

[ShawneyJ]

you have to join to see the demo :(

[Necrosaro420]

You should add a feature so like, someone can draw something, everyone else can see it, and have a section so users can guess what it is.

It would be cool for a board like mine about video gaming, people can try to draw characters etc, and everyone else would guess which one it is.

[evenmonkeys]

I'd suggest adding a demo account for people to test it out first.

[UltimateOreo!]

Good idea, I forgot about that. Maybe I should just remove the guest code, but naah. Demo account now included. And Necrosaro, it is not my software, it even has references to the website, but I do have permission from their owners. You can go to "Create your own room". The game includes all the functions you just said. BTW, DEMO ACCOUNT PASSWORD IS NOW IN THE ORIGINAL THREAD!

[Hornstar]

I cant view the demo because im using firefox and using vista. the shockwave player doesnt want to install :/

[NuclioN]

Big props with the shockwave player :(

[puertoblack2003]

I cant view the demo because im using firefox and using vista. the shockwave player doesnt want to install :/

do manuel installed i do have ff and it worked

[UncoderMom]

Very interesting! hm

[Bad Bunny]

Doesn't do anything with Safari.

[UltimateOreo!]

Dont know how that is relavent to the topic, unless a post was deleted, but how is everyone liking this?

[tanyeri24]

Might even its boost YOUR registrations a little bit :)

[DJ XtAzY]

ISketch is pretty fun

[FreshFroot]

hmm when i use the account the isketch doesn't laod for me.. just a dead image..

[UltimateOreo!]

Lol, what do I have to gain by people registering at a test board? Anyway, it might be your shockwave. www.adobe.com/shockwave/download

[FreshFroot]

Lol, what do I have to gain by people registering at a test board? Anyway, it might be your shockwave. www.adobe.com/shockwave/download
but that's the downside.. everyone has to downlaod shockwave at my forums to use it.. and some don't like to download stuff.. not even messengers :p

[UltimateOreo!]

Wow, just reassure them that it is safe, let me try and get a little message from adobe stating it is safe. I actually found a faq/knowledge base, so here you go, just post this to them-
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15508

[FreshFroot]

I know it is safe, but some people just don't want to install other software, even if it's safe. Or some people just can't because of XP priveledges...

[UltimateOreo!]

Yeah, but it is definately a great time for people who do have shockwave. Besides, why let your other forum members who do have shockwave not have this? :D Jk, no pressure. Hope everyone who is using this likes it!

[rjmjr69]

Reserved going to run a poll see if the members on my board would use it. I think its a great idea

[UltimateOreo!]

Thanks, tell me how the poll does.

[Bad Bunny]

Doesn't do anything with Safari.

Dont know how that is relavent to the topic, unless a post was deleted, but how is everyone liking this?

it's relevent to the topic because it doesn't work for mac users. Shockwave is apparently an older player that is not supported natively for intel machinces, so you have to run the browser under rossetta in order to get shockwave to play.
In other words, it doesn't work for modern mac users.

[UltimateOreo!]

Its not the hack, its the mac. Get windows.

[Luky]

I played your demo for an hour!!! INSTALLED!!! FUN!! :D

[Bad Bunny]

Its not the hack, its the mac. Get windows.
Yeah...clever.

[Luky]

Wow, just reassure them that it is safe, let me try and get a little message from adobe stating it is safe. I actually found a faq/knowledge base, so here you go, just post this to them-
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15508
Yes, i can see it now. Adobe releases a not safe product and you ask them about it and they turn around and say; NO! THIS PRODUCT IS NOT SAFE AT ALL! I MEAN HAY, THIS IS TERRIBLY BAD FOR OUR BUISNESS, BUT ITS NOT SAFE!! Hence the sarcasm.

UltimateOreo your right about this line: "Its not the hack, its the mac. Get windows." I would say Linux is the best OS, specially for people in the IT industry, however windows has more compatability. :)

[jheigl]

I installed this, but when I try to connect it says 'The Server is Currently Full. Please try again later.' Then I go to a different forum that I know uses this, and I can get in just fine. Any ideas?

[Jurg]

Same problem as above.

[v12kid]

I am getting the same problem as well!

[UltimateOreo!]

It is because there are many people logged, and seems that it is just a coincedence that enough people get off by the time that you go to their forum. It is not the hack, it is the servers.

[kungfujesus]

How do you create a new template from the ACP? I'm stuck on that part.

[UltimateOreo!]

You go to the style manager, and where it says All style options, you click that, and two under it is add a new template.

[kungfujesus]

Thanks, will install tonight or tomorrow and see how it goes.

[akulion]

awesome :D

[akulion]

It is because there are many people logged, and seems that it is just a coincedence that enough people get off by the time that you go to their forum. It is not the hack, it is the servers.

im getting the server busy message too

but then i went via the isketch homepage and it logged me in immediately

so i think there could be an issue

[v12kid]

im getting the server busy message too

but then i went via the isketch homepage and it logged me in immediately

so i think there could be an issue


got the same thing! :confused:

[UltimateOreo!]

Copy and paste from above-

It is because there are many people logged in, and seems that it is just a coincedence that enough people get off by the time that you go to their forum. It is not the hack, it is the servers.

[kungfujesus]

I get the same thing. I have yet to be able to login from my forums but can get in easily from isketch.net... Has anybody who installed this been able to play from their forums?

[bazzup]

i just tried this i just get a blank white page

[Jurg]

I'm gonna uninstall this. It's not just a co-incidence, I have tried for 3 days and not managed to log in once.

[akulion]

yup im uninstalling too

its definately not coincidence

[Alien]

Can't log in once via test server, even at 4am. Can get in every time at isketch.net

Maybe they added some code not to allow outside connections, or outside connections are set very very low and there are no restrictions on isketch.net

Hmm...

[v12kid]

I will have to agree with alien, I have uninstalled until a fix can be implemented. I think they are not allowing outside logins

[UltimateOreo!]

Ok, because of all the complaints, I tried it, and of course, it didn't work. It is now updated, tell me if it works or not. If it does work, please click install again.

[v12kid]

will update in the am and let you know :)

[akulion]

still no workie :(

[UltimateOreo!]

Whats your website?

[akulion]

<a href="http://path-to-peace.com/community/isketch.php" target="_blank">http://path-to-peace.com/community/isketch.php</a>

same message...server buys or something

[apokphp]

I just tried it, worked fine.

http://www.onlinedebate.net/forums/isketch.php

[UltimateOreo!]

Are you sure you completely updated it akulion?

[UltimateOreo!]

I just took a look at your source code, and you did not make the required template fix. Please do so and come back.

[The Equivocate]

Also receiving the Unable To Connect error but can login fine from isketch.net. Any fix yet?

[vectorfc]

I'm getting a "connection error. Please check your network settings or try again later" message - not the same as the other error I was getting before I put the fix in.

[UltimateOreo!]

Try it again, I tried logging in on the other day and there was a server error also. It was most likely the server as I went through their main website.

[vectorfc]

Doesn't look like it - same error from the forum and I can log into the main website ok.

Thanks for any help, though, I appreciate it. :)

[vectorfc]

I got the same error when attempting to log in directly through the source url you've got in the template ( http://88.198.9.81/isketch/iSketch392g.dcr ). I see from isketch's own site that the stuff in the template is the same code they use to call the game, so it does look like their site isn't too happy with outside connections.

To work around this, I just replaced your code in the isketch tempate with an iframe:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_iSketch]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="tcat">No Permissions<td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Please <a href="/register.php">Register</a> on $vboptions[bbtitle] to play Isketch.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</if>
<if condition="$show['member']">

<div align="center"><iframe src="http://www.isketch.net/isketch.shtml" scrolling="no" width="730" height="430"></iframe></div>

</if>
$forumbits
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
$footer
</body>
</html>
<center>Copyright ? Isketch</center>

Works great for me, hope somebody else finds it useful.

[joshbond]

^^ That iFrame thing worked.
is there any downside to using this method instead of the original? (aside from the fact that it works and the original doesn't)

I just installed it at my forum
http://www.photochopz.com/forum/

[vectorfc]

^^ That iFrame thing worked.
is there any downside to using this method instead of the original?

Not really - the two methods are doing basically the same thing. The difference is that the original tries to make the isketch code internal to vbulletin, so to speak, whereas my method leaves it completely external instead.

Edit: What would be nice would be if we could have a page refresh in the background so that people playing isketch are updated properly on Who's Online. I'm trying to figure out a way to do this now, so hopefully I can find something.

[Carlos2]

I got the same error when attempting to log in directly through the source url you've got in the template ( http://88.198.9.81/isketch/iSketch392g.dcr ). I see from isketch's own site that the stuff in the template is the same code they use to call the game, so it does look like their site isn't too happy with outside connections.

To work around this, I just replaced your code in the isketch tempate with an iframe:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_iSketch]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="tcat">No Permissions<td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Please <a href="/register.php">Register</a> on $vboptions[bbtitle] to play Isketch.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</if>
<if condition="$show['member']">

<div align="center"><iframe src="http://www.isketch.net/isketch.shtml" scrolling="no" width="730" height="430"></iframe></div>

</if>
$forumbits
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
$footer
</body>
</html>
<center>Copyright ? Isketch</center>

Works great for me, hope somebody else finds it useful.

Great!! Now working!! Thanks ;)

[UltimateOreo!]

Damn, I was just coming here to update it with a frame! I just read about it and knew that was the problem here. Hack fixed!

[v12kid]

installed it again and working with the iframe code :) nice work guys!

[Skedoozy]

I installed this, works great, people love it. One thing I'd love to have, which I'm too dumb to make on my own, is a Who's iSketching? box, like flashchats Who's Chatting. Preferably something I can put on my vBadvanced Portal as a module. Any help would be appreciated!

[ammoskumar]

where is the game??? i mean does this work in 3.6.7pl1 if yes i installed but i dont see the game in my board?? i follow the instruction everything but i cant see the game do i have edit anything manually besides the install instruction or its not working with me

[UltimateOreo!]

What is the link to your board? The only thing that I can think of is that you didn't do the template edit for the style you are using. And for the module, I can try! I don't know if it will work though, the actual game is pretty big itself, but I will say that I tried!

[Skedoozy]

I don't want the game in a module. Just like taking the information from the Who's Online where it shows people playing Isketch, and having a module with a list of people playing Isketch. You know what I mean?

People are always posting asking if anyone wants to play while there are already people playing. If I had a module on the main page showing which users were playing already they wouldn't need to post so often asking people to play.

[UltimateOreo!]

Oh, I see. Get a module of who is actually playing, and display who is playing the game in that module on the main page. I will also try that! Great Idea.

[Skedoozy]

You got it. That would be awesome, man. Thanks!

[Skedoozy]

Any updates?

[UltimateOreo!]

Sorry man, I am going to be honest. I haven't even tried yet :(. Getting to work on it right now though!

[Skedoozy]

Any updates? hehe

[JD45]

FYI, making the isketch template screwed with my WOL list. It wouldn't show the location of people anymore. I removed the template and all was fine after that.

[yoyoyoyo]

the dropdown dhtml menus, such as quick links, are getting hidden behind the flash object