Chat Modifications - Ideal Chat Lite (facebook style bottom chat/chatroom bar) v1.3.0

This modification adds a bottom bar chat system to your board.

Features

• Friend?s Online List (mutal or all friends)
• Integration with vBulletin's ignore system so users can block messages from people they want
• General Chat Room
• User-to-User Chat
  • Chat with friends
• Support for infinite number of open chats
• Automatic Updating of chat messages
• New message indicators
  • Indicator on Chat Tab for new messages
  • A sound plays for new messages
  • Page title flashes for new messages
  • Indicator for new messages on tabs out of view
• Multiple window support
  • Supports users having your site open in multiple windows/tabs
  • Changes in one window automatically apply to other windows
• Automatically disables chat bar for mobile browsers
  • Help save bandwidth for your mobile users

Settings

• Admin Settings
  • Chat online
  • Ban individual users from chat
  • Update stream time limit
  • Update stream delay
  • Settings & Chat Room link Positions
    • Change where the links show at, or hide them all-together
• Usergroup Settings
  • Can use chat
  • Can use chat room
• User Settings
  • Hide Chat bar
  • New message notification method

Change Log
For a full list of changes, please visit: http://community.idealwebtech.com/in...ngelog&file=15

Installation/Upgrade
See included readme file.

Demo
You can see a demo here (You can can register a new account, or use the Login, "Ideal Chat Demo", and password, "chatdemo") This demo is of the pro version which can be found here!

Support
This modification is released for free, and as such we don't officially support it; however, as time permits we will try to offer support on it. We will NOT be monitoring this thread on a daily basis, your best bet for a fast reply would be to go post here.

Common Issues/Topics
Chat Bar Don't Show Up?
Have you configured the usergroup settings? This is the most common issue we see, and 99% of the time it is due to usergroup settings not being configured properly. So if your bar is not showing up, please verify your usergroup settings before reporting it as an issue.

Messages Don't Show Up?
We are aware of an issue causing messages to not show up for some people, and are looking into fixes.

Modification Has Conflict With Another Product
There is always a chance that two products will conflict with each other! We are aware of some, but please feel free to tell us about any products you find to conflict via our Bug Tracker on our site.

Chat Doesn't Support Certain Characters
The chat can only support the characters your board itself can support! If you would like to support certain characters, you must have your board using a charset that supports them. We have only ever once noticed a chat that didn't support every character the board did, and we are looking in it.

Chat Kills My Server
We have tested the chat extensively for server friendliness, and have found it to be very gentle on servers. We have seen the script run with hundreds of active users without putting hardly any load on the server. However, an improperly configured server may result in any reverse-AJAX/push-AJAX/Comet based chat script killing the server. If you find that your server slows down after installation, you may want to talk with your host about raising your MySQL and Apache Max Connection Limits to a more appropriate amount!

[davepk]

After install you can't open the forums, pages stays loading.
Have to disable chat

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by leave it to bea

I'm still having the issue of messages not showing up. You can check it out with the same user and pw I gave you before. These are the versions of the new downloads.

[IWT] Ideal Chat Lite 1.2.0
[IWT] Shared Libraries 1.0.2

Hmm, I will check into this more soon.

Originally Posted by speedfan26

I am having an issue with the general chat room. I keep getting this message when trying to use it.



I have chat enabled in both my personal settings and in the master settings

There is a new set of usergroup settings just for the chatrooms that you must enable now. If you have them enabled and are still getting the issue, please let us know.

Originally Posted by davepk

After install you can't open the forums, pages stays loading.
Have to disable chat

What browser are you using? Does the page look like its loaded but the status bar just keeps saying loading? Any information you can give us on this will help us find the issue.

[danhaga]

Still have unresponsive chat windows. No notifications and messages do not show up unless refreshed.

[ElfenLied1337]

Hey, nice mod, seems to be working well, though I haven't tested much just yet.

Question: has the feature for disabling the noise been worked on at all?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Okay at the rate this script is growing and the amount of questions and bug reports we are dealing with its already getting to much to to keep organized in a thread.

So for now on please ask any questions you have here and report bugs you find here

Doing this will ensure faster replies and will also help you and others find answers to your questions faster plus will make things easier on us to manage in general as this thread has so many different sub topics going on, and bug reports all mixed in together. Which due to all everything being in one thread we have no way to sort structure and effectively manage everything.

Brian Yarbrough
Ideal Web Technologies
http://www.idealwebtech.com

[dog199200]

With the admin slash commands, there really needs to be a way to be a way to define who can use them. Either by the usergroup level or at the user level itself. Or even both, having the user level override the usergroup level. I haven't gotten to test it out, but i haven't found any place that defines who can use admin functions

[Skyline_GT]

Would it be possible in anyway for a person's whole forums friends list become added in the chat list?

Possible?

[clubvr4]

Hi,

Thanks for the recent update.

Please can you elaborate on the "Fixed numerous bugs!" ? - This would allow us to identify whether a problem we see has been resolved or not - rather than licking and seeing.

Thanks

[espkaruna]

I am testing this out right now among a limited number of users on a live site. We all agree that the 'beep' sound for each new message is very annoying. Any update on how to disable this?

[espkaruna]

Ok, another thing, and I am not trying to down this mod, just giving honest feedback, on vb suite v 4.1.4 patch 2 this mod seems to interfere with the vbadvanced tag module. The module does not show when this addon is enabled and comes back just fine when it is disabled