I upgraded to v2.x from 1.x but now the header, navbar, etc are gone? I added $header
$navbar
...manually in the CHAT template but it shows the chat part wider than the screen. I did not modify any other template but even checked the chat_main template is 100% width as it should be and by default. How do I correct this?

http://www.talkjesus.com/vBChat.php?&do=main&nojoin=1

It's supposed to not have a header and footer, since its a pop up window now :)

- Zero Tolerance

Ok I reversed it but is there a way to insert it within the site like it was in teh old version?

By the way, how do I create / add rooms (not user created but admin) and are the forum mods automatically mods on this chat as well? Where do I find the codes/functions to ban and such? Thanks for your work!

The whole idea of how ZT coded the new version is so you can use the EXIT command and close the chat window. You really don't want the navbar, because the chat is supposed to be a stand-alone popup.

Click on vBChat Help for a list of all commands.
Click on Create vBChat to create a new room.

And forum mods? Not sure what you mean exactly but i'll say no anyway.

- Zero Tolerance

800X600 works fine and lets me resize.
I'm not sure if this is the answer, but it works on my browser. Normal is 1024X768 on my screen. Even so, many text items could be shortened or in a smaller font.

also, how would one shrink the font size on these items?

That sort of text would need to be shortened in your style's CSS definition.

If your unsure i ask you contact the author of the skin about that.

- Zero Tolerance

I still get a red X for one of my smilies. The URL that it always tries to load is http://www.domainname.com/forum/ All the other smilies work fine. Also with 2.2, when a user clicks on vbchat, it doesn't open in a new window but rather replaces the vbulletin window.

I installed this on vBulletin Version 3.0.0 every thing went fine untill I went to start my forums back up ...I got error messages on the root index.php. I got the forums to work again by removing the errors it told me it had but now my who's online is compleatly gone? http://www.simplymoms.com/forum as you see it is no longer at the bottom. How do I get this back?

Overall, everything is really great. However, it does stutter and stammer once in a while. I think this happens if the sender clicks something else on the page and then goes back to the type line. Things get out of sorts. It's like an unwanted automatic carriage return between words.

[10:25 PM] Craig: OK...refreshed but I got a message out of the Blue that you had joined the room at 9:21
[10:25 PM] Harry: I've seen that happen when poking buttons on different stuff here.
[10:24 PM] Craig: YUP----screwup
[10:24 PM] Harry: Do a CONTROL R to reset your screen Craig.
[10:24 PM] Craig: I get
[10:24 PM] Craig: I
[10:24 PM] Craig: I got a
[10:23 PM] Craig: I
[10:23 PM] Craig: I got
[10:23 PM] Craig: I got a
[10:23 PM] Craig: I
[10:23 PM] Craig: I got

Yeap my users are seeing this as well.

The problem with the single red X seems to only manifest itself in IE and not in FireFox.

Click where? I tried clicking every where possible, and it doesn't do it. Of course, if you click on the Change Room, or create room and then come back in the room, the post line is erased, but I was expecting that.

The only time I notice something similar, was before ZT fixed the IE problem, when I was uploading the vBChat.php file with the small changes I was doing. Haven't seen this since then, and none of my users complained.

1. To fix the red smilie problem, go to your acp, vbchat options, and look for the one that says if you have a smilie problem, set that to yes, it should fix it ;)

2. Re-do the navbar template edit and the FORUMHOME template edit so that all links open in a pop up instead of in the same window.

Maybe my eyes decieve me .. but that's a phpBB forum, and this is a vBulletin modification?

This seems to be occuring for those on slower machines, after a while there CPU runs slowly since the system refreshes the hidden iframes every 8 seconds, unfortunatly my pc is far from slow so i myself have been unable to emulate this problem, but i have seen it occur with one of my members, who has a slow PC, i guess i'll have to wait for more information on how this occurs.

- Zero Tolerance

Is it possible for users to chat in different rooms at the same time?

No, a user can only be inside 1 room at a time i'm afraid.

- Zero Tolerance

I installed vbchat on my test board and it seems to be working just grand. One thing I haven't gotten straight yet is, I can not find the admin cp for the vbchat. I don't see a link anyplace in my forum admincp. I went over the install directions like 5 times before turning in and now this morning I need some help on what I might have missed.
The program is working just fine, have the link in the nabar and can use the chat, but I thought there was an admin area to changer some settings. Any help would be appreciated. I'll go get some coffee and look things over again myself.

Thanks,
Jaye

Check over your edit for "admincp/index.php", because that is where the code to insert the menu for the ACP lays :)

- Zero Tolerance

That was one of the first things I did. I still get one red X.

I also now have a problem where one user is apparently stuck as being in the chat room. How do I fix that?

My server is a dedicated Dell PowerEdge with dual 2 GHz Xeons, 1gig of ram, dual 73gig scsi drives and 2000gig of bandwidth. My home PC is a Dell Dimension 8200 Pentium 4 at 1.8GHz and 512Mb ram on cable modem.

This situation has happened to me a couple of times and I couldn't explain why. A Control F5 or Control R cleared the problem. while it was happening, it was like an automatic "Enter" key followed every word that I typed in the Post Message line. Later, it happened to another user and that is when I copied the flow of events posted above.

I will be alert next time, but fortunately it hasn't happened much. Hopefully, just an intermittant fluke. Otherwise, EXCELLENT!

New install of 2.2

IE window is huge and cannot be adjusted.

Mozilla works like a champ.

It's possible that one of your emoticons is incorrectly set up, check them out :)

As for a user being stuck, could you be more specific, they can just choose another chat room, IE: the default one.

@ oldengine - Server stats make no difference, i wouldn't of thought, in any case, thanks for letting me know, i look forward to squashing this bug :)

@ vauge - Full screen or bigger than your actual moniter?

- Zero Tolerance

It is using full screen in IE.

I checked them out and they all appear in the vbulletin control panel.

As for a user getting stuck, we only have one main chatroom right now and this guy hasn't been logged on for at least 12 hours but still shows up on 'users in vbchat" on forumhome. How can I clear this?

Was able to recreate the bug mentioned by oldengine.

It does not like ' or " ... then the next user will seem to press enter after every word or longer pause.

It's supposed to be full screen :)

Try editing one of your emoticons, so vBulletin re-builds cache. Also ensure your using the latest vBulletin version released.

As for the user been locked in, run this query:
[sql]delete from vb3_sessions[/sql]
Change "vb3_" to your SQL prefix.

So your saying when someone uses the word "or" in a sentance? I highly doubt it, what is entered has no effect on result, only if commands are entered.

- Zero Tolerance

installed as instructed in the options - upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2.

the window in IE is NOT adjustable, which was how i took it to be in the upgrade?

either way, its still full screen on my monitor 1280x1024 on a 19" tft.

not tested it in firefox as yet.
other than the window size problem, the hack is the dogs knackers m8

**EDIT**

checked it out in firefox, and the window opens up MAXXED out on the screen..ie, as if maximized.

Can you change it to allow resizing? Currently will not let me resize in IE.

No, I used the word 'costs' actually. Then it happened to him. He left chat and came back - I retyped my sentence and used the word 'costs' again. It happened again. It also happened with more than one contraction in a sentense. Single contraction in a sentence did not yield the error.

We chatted for about an hour previously, then about 20 mins after these apostrophe/quote tests without error.

In short, could dual apostrophe's or quote's cause the issue?

Could it be that this user has Javascript turned off and therefore the chat window opens and closes as a regular web page window? That would then defeat the chat log out?

ZT: I'll check the " " " " ' ' ' ' in the Post Message bar on my system.

EDIT: I entered all maner of " " ' ' ' " " cost's 'cost' etc. and all works fine. I was the only user, but anyway, no problems detected.

It's supposed to be full screen :)

I seriously doubt it will be specific inputs into the chat that cause this, it seems to a be a freak out bug that occurs to certain people are certain times, as i said before, slow pc's can sometimes do this, especially since 2 hidden iframes are refreshing every 8 seconds.

User with JS turned off = The chat doesn't work at all. Having pop up blockers on however will stop the chat from detecting that you left.

- Zero Tolerance

my bad then m8...sorry about that.

is there any way in future updates an option could be included to have the ability to reduce the window size at all??

might be an idea.

hack is excellent tho m8, seriously.

Sure i don't see why in the next update i'll change the pop up to allow it to be resized :)

- Zero Tolerance

As a quick resolve to the page opening full size, this is the code I used:

Find:
Replace with
Please note ; for whatever reason there are spaces in the "scrollbars" code, I can't remove it when it appears there, just remove the extra spaces between the word

This works nicely for me, whether it will for everyone else, I'm not sure .... if this isn't the right way to do it, please someone tell me!

That line of code was changed in v2.2 to open full screen for all resolutions, i suggest you update to the newest version :)

- Zero Tolerance

Yep I just did upgrade but it opens full screen, and at 1280 x 1024 that's a large window for the chat area to open in! I just thought I'd edit the code quickly to see if it would work, it bugs me full screen ... nothing personal!

Alright then, it is ofcourse your decision :)

- Zero Tolerance

Holy frickin' crap! I just read 799 posts!

I've got to ramble for a minute here...... I don't think I have installed any of Zero Tolerance's hacks before. But the guy seems really legitimate and professional. I think I will take the plunge with this one.

Oh, excited...

BTW, I have no chat installed currently... Do I just install Version 2.2 from the get-go?

There is a fresh installation instructions & auto install script to install v2.2, so don't worry about that, i make sure all old users can upgrade and new users have no trouble using the latest version :)

- Zero Tolerance

Great. Thank you. I looked at the first post and I figured that's what "You may install v2.2 fresh" meant, but I wasn't sure...

Thanks again... :classic:

mm