[vbboarder]

Bug: About a week ago I reported that the chatbox shifted the page down & up by ~2 pixels in IE7 whenever the "refreshing messages" appeared. Several other people have confirmed this bug, but no fix has yet been posted. Well, I finally got annoyed and decided to debug it myself.

Solution: Currently, when the chatbox is about to update messages, it hides the "Refreshing Messages" text. The solution simply displays "Updating Messages" instead - you can change this to whatever text you want. I prefer to change the color of the "Refreshing Messages" instead of changing the text so I added that code to the hack. Unfortunately, the color change does not work in IE7 (so IE7 will get the text change and other browsers will get the color change) - you can change the colors to whatever you want or even remove the condition to check for non-IE browsers. So finally here's the 3-steps fix on how to squash the bug - the problem is in the Ccb_getMessages() and Ccb_updateMessages() functions in the chatbox template (surprise, surprise ....): Go to Style Manager > Edit Templates > Cybernetec Templates > cyb_chatbox, and
1. FIND:

PHP Code:

                ccb_Messages = new vB_AJAX_Handler(true);
                ccb_Messages.onreadystatechange(Ccb_updateMessages);
                ccb_Messages.send('misc.php?show=ccbmessages');
            }
        }

        function Ccb_updateMessages()
        {
            if (ccb_Messages)
            { 


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REPLACE WITH:

PHP Code:

                if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') > -1)
                    fetch_object('cybcb_infoarea').innerHTML = ':: Updating Messages';
                else
                    fetch_object('cybcb_infoarea').style.color = 'aqua';
                ccb_Messages = new vB_AJAX_Handler(true);
                ccb_Messages.onreadystatechange(Ccb_updateMessages);
                ccb_Messages.send('misc.php?show=ccbmessages');
            }
        }

        function Ccb_updateMessages()
            {
            if (ccb_Messages)
            {
                fetch_object('cybcb_infoarea').innerHTML = ':: $vbphrase[cybcb_status_refreshing]';
                fetch_object('cybcb_infoarea').style.color = 'gray'; 


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2. FIND AND DELETE:

PHP Code:

             if (!Ccb_nowLoading)
            {
                fetch_object('cybcb_infoarea').style.display = 'none';
                fetch_object('ccb_entermessage').style.height = '$cybcb_height_input';
            } 


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3. FOR MAC USERS: to fix a mac sizing bug where the text area will contract & expand on refresh, find all:

$cybcb_height_input_wstatus

and replace with:

$cybcb_height_input

Hope that helps everyone from gettin' shifty eyes when using IE7