Chat Modifications - MGC Chatbox Evo

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
• User statistics display in posts and profile
• Chatbox statistics display on forumhome
• Create thread from a chat [PRO only]
• CMS Integration (not included - separate product)
  • vBAdvanced CMPS
  • vBulletin 4 CMS
• Importers from other chatbox systems:
  • cChatbox by Christrato [version 1.5]
  • Cyb - Chatbox by Cybernetec [version 2.3]
  • vBulletin 3.x Shoutbox 1.0 (AJAX) by DionDev [version 1.0]
  • Dream's Chatbox by Dream [version 2.1.1]
  • GSBOS by dinnerbone [version 1.0.5]
  • Inferno vBShout Lite 2.5.0 by Inferno Tech [version 2.5.1 lite]
  • vBShouts 2.0 by Zero Tolerance [version 2.0]
  • MGC Chatbox by MGC [version 1.5]

Install

Refer to the readme for the chatbox install.

Demo

Live demo on MGC Products forum

Languages

1. French
2. English
3. German [Not yet updated]
   
4. Serbian [Not yet updated]

Support

On my website mostly and in this thread

Int?gration

Integration in IBProarcade is described in the readme.
vBAdvanced CMPS and vBulletin 4 CMS integration are available as additional modules.

Compatibility

This hack is compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

Changelog

First part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=221

Second part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=5429

Third part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=8469

How to set the channel images

Thanks to princeedwards for this little how to : click here

PRO version and additional addons available on my website

This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

[Juiced PC Gear]

I have updated the chatbox permissions.
please check now.

I have made it possible for you to also post some chats. Please check now.

Thanks.

[VBDev]

According to the error returned by firebug, the mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php file is missing in your forum root.

[Juiced PC Gear]

Ahhh! I see what happened. When I uploaded the file it somehow corrupted and was a 0kb file!

Thanks for the support its working 100% now!

<3 Marked as installed and rated 5/5.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Do you get any javascript error ?

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Timestamp: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:17:35 UTC


Message: 'YAHOO.util.DataSourceBase.TYPE_JSON' is null or not an object
Line: 7
Char: 343
Code: 0
URI: http://www.trollkingdom.net/forum/clientscript/mgc_cb_evo/yui/autocomplete/autocomplete-min.js

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Timestamp: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:18:58 UTC


Message: 'YAHOO.util.DataSourceBase.TYPE_JSON' is null or not an object
Line: 7
Char: 343
Code: 0
URI: http://www.trollkingdom.net/forum/clientscript/mgc_cb_evo/yui/autocomplete/autocomplete-min.js


Message: Object expected
Line: 1
Char: 1753
Code: 0
URI: http://www.trollkingdom.net/forum/clientscript/mgc_cb_evo/mgc_cb_evo_functions.js

Well the YUI popups are meant to work like this.

I have to work on the code to make it default enter, it's on the todo list.

It defaults yes on firefox and chrome - stupid YUI.

Really ? Are you sure you're using last chatbox version ?

2.2.1
I've attached a screencap.

That's normal they use YUI css, if you want to tweak them, have a look at this page : http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examp...anelskin1.html.

Okay, that helped me change the colors, but manually. I will take a look at how to get them to use style colors when I have a bit of time. Thanks.

There was such bug in a previous version but not the latest one. Again, are you sure you are using the last version ?
Or have you been doing a chatbox upgrade lately ? In that case check that you don't have any non reverted templates and refresh your browser cache.

Versions is 2.2.1 and I do not edit templates directly - I only use template hooks, or the Template Modification System.

[hambil]

I moved up the execution order of Newpost notification handling (moderation) and it seems to work now (double notification is gone). If I have more trouble I'll hunt down exactly what other mod is conflicting. Thanks

[OblivionMage]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Well I am sorry but I don't remember your problem, it's too hard to follow each person problem within one single thread :/

It's the chatbox which is not displayed at all ?

Yes, the issue is that the chatbox isn't displayed at all in any styles, despite being re-installed multiple times.

I've sorted through all of the options, and can't figure out the problem.

[PHSChat]

OK - I finally figured it out.

When creating a new channel, for instance, the Advice channel, you would refer to the image thus: mgc_cb_evo_advice (where "advice" is your unique file name).

However, you need to create two different versions of your icon, one is sharp (the sel version of the image) and the other is fuzzy (the nosel version).

You will need to name the two images thus:
mgc_cb_evo_advice_sel.gif
mgc_cb_evo_advice_nosel.gif

....then upload those two images to the channels directory.

Originally Posted by VBDev

Ok so that's not for the latest version (2.1.0) ?



Hum, I add this and will look at it.



By editing the templates and using css attributes.



Well ok... Sad you gave up.



Well if you look closely it's stated that the extension, _sel and _nosel are not to be inputed !!!

The mgc_cb_evo prefix is not mandatory at all !!

You just have to put everything in the name of your image before the _sel.gif or _nosel.gif or _new.gif, that's all.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by OblivionMage

Yes, the issue is that the chatbox isn't displayed at all in any styles, despite being re-installed multiple times.

I've sorted through all of the options, and can't figure out the problem.

Have you tried the style issue fix ?

[OblivionMage]

I've tried it, but to no avail.

Its not like its an issue with a specific style though, it doesn't show on any of them including the VB Default one.

[Redzzand]

Originally Posted by VBDev

You mean a temporarly disable sound ? In addition to the one in the usercp ?

Channel name can be shown in the chatbox header, there is an option for that.

Is there any way to put a disable sound button next to the refresh button so that users dont have to go to control panel to disable sound. some users never go to control panel because there are so many options, that they get lost.