maybe adding a percentage feature for the screen size would work for a future implementation so it would be the same for users on all resolutions but customizable via admincp ;)

You know that's not a bad idea, no idea why i didn't think of it myself ..

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thats what i am here for helping out.

and btw it is a great hack i am installing it for a client later this week i have it on my test board.

Sounds great! Can't wait for that one! :)

Sure, it wouldn't be ACP controllable i'm afraid, that would require an extra global query, which is bad, but i'll make it so you can change the % number on 2 variables (1 for width, 1 for height), which makes it easy enough in my eyes :)

- Zero Tolerance

The fix for the "Whos online" box worked perfectly.

But, the other problem still persists. I increased it to 350, 380, 400, then to 425, and it still partially cuts it off.

Here's a pic of it at 425:

Oh, and also, my members complain about the chat constantly refreshing and stuff. How can I stop that?

I have set up version 2.2 so that only my "sponsoring members" which is a secondary usergroup are allowed to have private chat rooms. This does not seem to work. Even though I have enabled their usergroup in the vbchat setup for this capability it says "thier user group does not have the rights to do this", when they try. I suspect it is a secondary/primary usergroup issue.

Also I still get an X for at least one of my smilies even after changing one of the smiles url and changing it back to try and refresh the cache.

I have now installed the vb chat on my public forum and it works wonderfully. Everything uploaded correctly ;)
The question I have now is this. How do I get the chat to work with a second style I have available for my forum ? It works great with the default vb style but so with a style I have tweaked the colors and a few minor style changes.

Jaye

from what i did you have to change what the default style is in the vbulletin options, then run the installer again and JUST add the templates do not add the database changes

worked for me ^^

Fresh Install of Version 2.2

About 15 minutes into the conversation with a member, it started to post every word or letter on it's own.

Like 1 word per line. This bug is still in Version 2.2. Just wanted to let you know.

Have a nice night.

Seems your rows are exanding with it, so let's set a 1% height, that should resolve it hopefully, make this edit for all of these templates: chat_row, chat_row_bot, chat_row_me, chat_row_special_recieved, chat_row_special_sent

Find:
Replace With:
Constant refreshing cannot be stopped, hidden iframe's get the newest data, otherwise the chat wouldn't be dynamically changing.

The code works off Primary user groups only i'm afraid, however i'll try add secondary usergroup support in a future release :)

I'm not sure what is causing it then i am afraid, for now turn show smilies off, untill this is resolved :)

The templates need to be copied over to your other style, and dont worry, i made a modification to copy templates from 1 style to others, located here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=72288, it will save you a lot of trouble of manually doing this :)

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Another feature suggestion would be to not allow users to log onto vBChat if the server load is over YYY.

There's a vBulletin setting to disallow new members/visitors to get onto the site if server load is over XXX, also, the chat system doesn't use much resources, so i don't see why it has to be ruled out :)

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Same here as it happened a few times here tonight. It definitely follows the use of an apostrophe in the previous line.

I'm not so sure about this. It seems as though when I get near or upwards of 10 users my load really bogs down.

Well i'm still unable to re-create this error for myself, so im still none the wiser as to how it is happening.

Really? That's surprising, i've had over 50 users in at one time and it didn't affect my server load one bit .. hmm.

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It will only happen with another user on line with you and I suspect that it's the opposite user that gets messed up than the one who sends the '.

Also, a request is in for a longer scroll down buffer.

Yeah i'm testing it while my other members are in the chat, lol.

As for the longer scroll down buffer, care to be a little more explicit? Sorry, 3:51 am here..

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Ha! We all spend too much time at this!

My new lines go on the top of the chat screen. The folks who join in late would like to be able to scroll down further to see what has already gone by the chat window.

i don't have a scroll bar at all in my chat room o_O

so i take it, it is not fully compatible with safari?

also is it supposed to open a new window for the chat?

i don't have scroll bars anywhere

Ah you want to show more messages .. i'll see what i can do, no promises, returning more messages = using more server usage, i may make it acp controllable however...

Scroll bars appear if messages are long and it all totals up larger than the iframes it in. I;m not entirely sure the Javascript fully works with Safari, but i can't garentee that (havn't tested it on safari, only IE & FireFox)

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is a chat room still supposed to look like that?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=24215

if so then no it doesn't work on Safari. and Safari is the #1 Mac browser

UPDATE:
checked in firefox works as should from just looking at it

does not work in Safari must work for 90% of Mac users to ever use it

Yes it's supposed to look like that, and i know Safari is a mac browser, and i didn't think it would work. I doubt i'll be able to do much, getting it working in FireFox was hard enough, and if it works in FF, then in means its 100% standard JS, since FF only allows standard javascript to be executed, nothing sloppy..

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Just a note..

I had about 40 users on it tonight and the server load just kept climbing. httpd was using 95% of the cpu, steady. I disabled the chat and server load is back to 0.9.

There were tons of requests to vbchat.php... isn't it safe to say that a large number of users chatting would cause hundreds of refreshes in a few seconds? Is there any way to avoid the lag?

The constant refreshing to re-gain data is the only downfall, i'll look into optomization for future releases, i believe i could cut 2 iframes refreshing and make it just be the one, that would stop an extra 7 or so queries which are executed upon refreshing, cutting the usage of the chat in half :)

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This is something I was wondering too, why two separate refreshes for the main and the user windows? Not being critical, just wondering.

Oh, and where is V.2.3? For all those money I pay you, you should be delivering more often. Only one of the twins is home today, so I could use the time to do the upgrade! LoL

well, the mysterious bug hitted my board as well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/sv1cec/bug.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/sv1cec/bug2.jpg

On the first time, there was an apostrophe involved, but not in the second time. First time, the user said it was bad typing, but for the second time, he was very sure it wasn't.

The funny thing was that the other user saw the same thing from me, but that was clumsy typing on my behalf for sure.

Just thought I'll let you know.

I see "it's" on the line before BOTH of them. It doesn't matter which user uses an apostrophe.

great !!! :)

Nope, it didn't fix it. The bottom line remains cut off.

So you mean that if one user uses an apostrophe, that affects the way the other user input is handled? Kind of hard to believe, but I'll leave that to ZT to decide.

It's strange because tonight, I've spend about two hours in the chat, and I saw a lot of apostrophes being typed. Never noticed the problem though.

The ' may just be a coincidence. I'm sure each time it happened there were several of the same letters present as well. But as humans, we are not going to take notice of that. I'm sure there is an "e" in almost every line when this happens too.

Until something substantial shows that the ' is the problem. It is probably just a coincidence.

This is such a fine hack ! I have it running and it's great. We haven't had 40 people in at same time yet and so far no bugs about :)
I can think of a few more options that would make this hack well worth paying for , if ya don't mind my saying so.

:up:

Thanks so much ! This is just too cool :)

Oh NO ! That rotten bug has turned up in my forums vb chat as well
It seems to show up when the enter key is used to send the message to the chat window instead of clicking on the post key.
I will go back and read some more to see if I missed the fix for this, if I did then I am sorry to mention it again.

i am having trouble with the chat room not showing the messages when they are typed in. anyone have any idea on how to fix this?

We absoulutely need to address this. This thing really bogs down my server more than a very old Jabber Chat, chat room. Also need a fix to limit private chat rooms to secondary user groups as these are my paid groups and will be the only ones to whom this feature is offered.

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Thanks for your hard work.

yes, we had this problem tonight with only 3 members in the room. Also one user reported that the screen would grab the text he was typing and send it while he was typing. The 'stuttering' ( we dubbed it stuttering) seemed to only effect one user out of the 3 in the room.
Sure hope this can be straightened out. Oh I am sure it will be, after all, we are dealing with a near Master Coder ;)

See post #773 :)