Version: 3.4.0, by VBDev
Developer Last Online: Dec 2021
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 4.2.x
Rating:
Released: 01-27-2008
Last Update: 09-01-2013
Installs: 2476
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits Auto-Templates
Additional Files Translations
No support by the author.
This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x
Overview
MGC Chatbox Evo is the most ever installed chatbox for vBulletin !
It offers a new enhanced online experience to your members leading to increased time spent online of more than 25% by providing them with a new, more interactive, way to interact with each other.
Important number of features
High level of configurability to fit each users needs
Channels system
Many commands
Bot system
and more...
... makes MGC Chatbox Evo a must have for your forum !
Detailed features
Following is a non-exhaustive list:
Simple install
Ajax based with:
Fast and Intelligent chats retrieval through javascript calls to server files (refresh delay configurable per usergroup)
Edit/update by double-clicking on a chat
Interact on chats through menus and javascript
Many usergroup permissions to limit features according to usergroups
Full configuration of the chatbox display:
Size, position on forum pages, editor layout (either top/bottom input or left/right textarea) and position, number of chats displayed, ...
Full configuration of the chats display:
Authorized bbcodes selection, date/time options, avatar display, ...
Possibility to create channels (unlimited number) with multiple configuration options:
Warn user of new message when not active through blinking image and eventually sound notification
Possibility to select on which specific page each is displayed
Option to display the channel only for selected languages
Usergroup/User permissions to access the channel
Many commands available with usergroup/user permissions to access them:
/me: well known IRC command
/del: remove shouts (different possibilities of removal)
/ignore: ignore shouts from another user
/ban: ban user from chatbox
/pm: send a private chat to another user
/announcement: modify the announcement on top of the chatbox
/slap: allow user to slap another user
/team: chats sending between specified usergroups
/l33t: I33t-ify a message
/banchan: ban user from specific channel [PRO only]
Forum activity notifications system in the chatbox:
Different display options:
In the chatbox melted with chats
In the chatbox in a separate column
In the vB4 sidebar or a custom sidebar for vB3
Multiple notifications:
New thread creation
New post creation
Post thanked (Abe's)
New registrations (not included - separate product)
IBProarcade highscore (not included - separate product)
Bot system with set of predefined trigger chat and corresponding answers and automatic bot chats [PRO only]
Archive system with statistics as well as download and search capabilities
Possibility to display the list of users online in the chatbox
Force anynomous to enter a username before chatting if they can access the chatbox
Antiflood system
Private chats feature through PM in tabs
Optional sound notifications
Inactive mode feature for server load optimization
I Received an E-mail from "Cl?ment aka vBDev" regarding New Features on this Great Mod; I'd like to Quote my Last Request for the Message Editor to be More Flexible as it was Before the Latest Updates.
Quote:
Originally Posted by inciarco
Thank You For Your Reply VBDev. :up:
VBDev, could you Please in your Next Update Offer the following 2 Choices :
1. To be able to Use the Message Text Field Editor as BBCode or as WYSIWYG.
2. To be able to Use the Color, Bold, Italic, and Underline, Options to be Applied to a Selected Text or to All the ShoutBox Text of the Editor Text Field.
Both of them to have the 2 mentioned Choices, so that we Admins can Choose the Ones Our Users would like Better.
I Hope You Can Offer Us this 2 Choices in Your Next Update, VBDev.
A much requested feature by my members is to have the input field below the shouts. please consider adding this.
It would be useful to be able to infract members from the chat box.
Invite members into a channel.
Alfa the feature to put the input field below the shouts is already there in Chats Formatting : Editor position
Specifies the input field and chatbox buttons position.
As far as banning users from chat box you can also do that easily, just click on drop down next to users name and ban them for a short while, you can also probably set your chatbox idle timeout better so that people are idle in chatbox sooner allowing those who are truly writing and chatting to get in more often.
You can tell people about the new channel or actually assign different user groups to default to a certain chat channel.
I have attached a rough sketch of the proposed layout. I did use something similar to it before. The users liked it since the full size avatar of whoever last chatted would show up.
Thanks.
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I am totally lost. Can do you do a sketch in pain or kinda like that ?
Feature request: I would like to see an alternative avatar layout where only the last person who chatted could have a full avatar showing. Nobody else's avatar would show. I used to have a program that did this, but I like yours better overall. That feature would be nice since as you chat the avatar of the last person changes and you can see the detail from their avatar in full size without taking up screen space showing everyone's avatar at that size.
The format then would go like this:
Column 1:
First rows: Enter Chat Here - Buttons - Icons
Last rows: Last Person Chatted Avatar (Full Size Avatar shows)
Column 2+:
As it is now, Date, Time, Chat, etc.
Well about the editor on left (or could be right as well), I have added in the next version a new possible editor layout with a textarea on the right or left instead of top/bottom editor as simple input.
However, not sure of the utility of the avatar like that on the left, but I'd be interested in knowing the other users thoughts on the subject.
Quote:
Originally Posted by kalisekj
I love this chatbox, just one issue I have is there is some instruction missing or a code missing that truly allows me to add the chatbox to other pages, like postedit, profile, search, worldmap, ibproarcade, no matter what I have tried I have been unable to get the chatbox to show on any other page other than what it allows by default. Can anyone address this issue or give a solution. Trust me I have followed the instructions to the Letter and still no chatbox showing, its like the var code is not registered on a necessary page or file which allows us to use the var code, and just putting the page names in the admin cp does no good either.
Thank you,
PS: If you have a channel stop showing the chats or shouts go into the archive and delete any chat or shout with special characters. The chatbox will start working again.
You have to open the php files corresponding to these pages and then you should add the THIS_SCRIPT values to the box of defined pages. Please copy a screenshot of your configuration settings.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa1
Problems:
The chat box could not handle around 100 concurrent members. Whenever more than 80-90 members where in, the chat became problematic and slow. Whenever near 100 chatters, members would be thrown out/denied with 15-20 at a time. Can this be improved / avoided?
Access from the chat box on forum pages was hard for a lot of members, while chat access from the main chat page /mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox did not give access problems(until 80 chatters where in). Members often where unable to view shouts in the main channel, when accessing on a forum page.
Does this make sense to you? Any idea what happened?
I would like to open the chat box up again for my members, if it can take a few hundred concurrent chatters.
That's interesting, never been able to run the chatbox with such amount of users.
So here are a few questions:
Was it slow because lots of chats were made in the mean time ?
Were you getting any errors in the javascript console of firefox ?
Please install the firebug extension and activate it when on your
When active, click the little bug on the right corner of firefox, then activate everything in the Console tab. See how much time the chats retrieval takes (ajax call to mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php, i would be interested to know and also to know if anyhow that fails.
If you can, try to tell other of your users to do so, getting the most feedback as possible would be awesome to find solutions or issues.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa1
Feature requests:
A much requested feature by my members is to have the input field below the shouts. please consider adding this.
It would be useful to be able to infract members from the chat box.
Invite members into a channel.
Already an option
You can ban, what did you mean by infract ?
Like private discussion between two members ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by inciarco
1. To be able to Use the Message Text Field Editor as BBCode or as WYSIWYG.
2. To be able to Use the Color, Bold, Italic, and Underline, Options to be Applied to a Selected Text or to All the ShoutBox Text of the Editor Text Field.
Well when wysiswyg is active or not, the bbcode still can be used
I am not very up to that, chats are simple, you don't write huge texts, so is this really needed, I am not sure. What do you think other users ?
*Thanks & Installed & Donated* :up:
______Comment_____
Thats a very great Chatbox, i love "her" :-) i think she is female, only womans are so beautiful xD
*Thanks & Installed & Donated* :up:
______Comment_____
Thats a very great Chatbox, i love "her" :-) i think she is female, only womans are so beautiful xD
lol
Thanks for your donation !
Quote:
Originally Posted by TaMpE
hi the /TEAM command doesn't work properly.
I'm Admin and when I use that command, the Members can also see my /TEAM shouts and not just Admin usergroup.
Just tested and it worked. Depends how you set the command, have you correctly set the usergroup permissions ?
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