Very nice Shout. I did a lot of reading in this thread to change the typing background, where you type. I tried your suggestions:
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It seems it's the input_background stylevar you need to modify.
If this doesn't work either, check the following CSS attribute in vbulletin-formcontrols.css: "

I tried this and it didn't work.
I got to change this to keep it, thanks!

DBT don't have a dedicated widget for use in the CMS, however the deployment system can be used for it:

To put vBShout in a custom location, do the following:

Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Change the Shoutbox Deployment setting to include the script names of all the pages you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter index,vbcms for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd remove the contents of this setting.

Step 4: Change the Manually Display Shoutbox setting to include the template names you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter FORUMHOME,vbcms_page for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd enter navbar for this setting.

Step 5: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw vbshout} (vB4) or {$vbshout} (vB3) to the templates you named in Step 4 in the desired location.

Follow these steps as described and you will have total control over the position of the Shoutbox.
Please note that some locations may not work as intended on vBulletin 3.8, and also note that it is not designed to go in the Forum Blocks side-bar (vBulletin 4).

Hope that helps

Open the template DragonByte Tech: vBShout Templates/dbtech_vbshout_shoutarea_vertical

Place the following code in the html text in there after width:98%;
So it looks like this:
You can change the color to what you wish by changing the 000000 to a different value.

Not only did that work, but you replied with it in 8 minutes with a very indepth explanation! Fantastic job indeed man, *Nominate you for Member of the Month* Good job and THANKS!!!

is it just me or is this mod way overloaded ?
big js and css files blow up the size of forum.php.
Very sad story, as this chat would be my favorite, function wise...

It's just you, those things are required to allow the Shoutbox to be displayed on every page. Previously, CSS / JS would not load unless you specified what pages it should load on, however the majority of our users were not experienced enough to be able to know that, for instance, in order to put the shoutbox on the vBulletin CMS, they needed to add "vbcms" to the "scripts to load the SB on" setting.

Therefore, we opted for removing that requirement altogether.

Fillip

maybe stupid question but i don't see it in the description : does the lite version has a function where users can choose font size ? It used to be pro only but i missed a few updates so I'm not sure wether it has been added as a lite feature recently or not :$

Only text options available in the lite version is.

Update text styles

Bold
Italic
Underline
Font
Colour

The font size is in the pro version

In 99% of cases we do not backport Pro features into Lite. That option is still Pro-only :)


Fillip

thanks for the info mate, keep up the good work :)