Chat Modifications - GSBOS: Generic Shout Box Operating System

What is it?
GSBOS is at a glance a simple shoutbox, users can send messages and everyone else can see it. However, it utilizes Javascript intervals and DOM methods to create a 'typing' effect on every message that shows, and is designed to look like a generic console application. The use of typing messages allows for cool tags such as '[delete]' and '[speed]' that delete letters after they have been typed or makes certain words type faster. An unintended side effect of the way this was created also makes it use much less bandwidth than major chatboxes, as it does not wipe the screen then redownload a bulk of messages each time; It only gets what it needs.

Can I see it in action?
There is a demo set up at http://www.dinnerbone.com/forums. You must register to use it, or log in using one of the following:
'test' - Normal chat
'butterfingers' - To try the Butterfingers effect
'stupid' - To try the 'stupid' effect.
The password for them all is 'test1'.

How customisable is it?
I have aimed to make as much customisability as possible, and you can see the result in the admin options. You can alter anything from message typing speed to the console background to the rate of butterfingers that members have.

Wait, 'butterfingers'?
GSBOS also features per-user effects that, well, have no real purpose but to amuse. 'Butterfingers' causes the effected people to type with lots of generated mistakes, and 'Stupidize' (For lack of a better name) forces people to acknowledge their own IQ. For example, if I were to be under the effects of Stupidize and say "Hey, my name is Dinnerbone and I'm the author of GSBOS!", it would appear as "hallo dinnerdones anme am dinneroben nd dinndrbone duh author of gsbos yah".

Does it work in every browser?
Unfortunately, I have not been able to test this in quite a lot of browsers. However, it should work in most modern browsers.

How do I install it?
Read readme.txt

What features does it have?

• /mute [username] - Mutes [username]. Admin only.
• /unmute [username] - Unmutes [username]. Admin only.
• /stupid [username] - Puts [username] under the 'stupid' effect. Admin only.
• /unstupidize [username] - Removes the 'stupid' effect from [username]. Admin only.
• /butterfingers [username] - Puts [username] under the 'butterfingers' effect. Admin only.
• /unbutterfingers [username] - Removes [username] from the 'butterfingers' effect. Admin only.
• /who - Displays a list of active shoutbox users.
• /clear - Clears the screen, but only for the user who types this.
• /prune - Deletes every message in the shoutbox, for every user. Admin only.
• /say [username]: [message] - Fakes a message from [username] saying [message]. You must seperate the message and username with a colon. Admin only. [username] must be a valid user.
• Almost 100% customisable.
• Easy on the bandwidth.
• [delete]text goes here[/delete] deletes 'text goes here' after typing it out, letter by letter.
• [deletewords]text goes here[/deletewords] deletes 'text goes here' after typing it out, word by word.
• [speed=50]text goes here[/speed] types 'text goes here' at a rate of one letter every 50ms. This may be restricted to certain speeds in the ACP.
• 'Natural typos' creates typos while typing out every message at a set rate (In the ACP). All typos are deleted then fixed after typed out.
• 'Butterfingers' causes a user to make lots of typos at a set rate in their message, that are not fixed when typed out.
• 'Stupidize' causes a user to act their IQ.
• 'Mute' causes a user to shut up.
• A message 'history' is shown for old messages sent before a user loads the shoutbox. These not typed out to save delays; It will only type out new messages.
• Easily positioned on any page on your forums.
• Usergroup based permissions, easily customizable
• Private messages via the shoutbox

To-do

• Ignore user support
• Floating/Docking support
• A limit on how long it takes to type out an individual message
• More per-user effects
• An ability to delete existing messages.
• ???
• Got an idea? Please tell me

Change log (Newest at top!)
1.0.5

• /help command added
• Improved /stupid
• Usergroup permissions - you can now assign which group can use which commands
• Private message support, use /pm username: message
• /me and /me's added
• Fixed a major bug with the [instant] tag that crashed browsers
• Added /format, see the /help command for usage

1.0.4

• Fixed a bug prevent style="" attributes breaking the shoutbox on IE browsers

1.0.3

• BBCode support!
• Smiley support!
• Fixed the time showing incorrectly

1.0.2

• Flood protection
• Custom positioning

1.0.1

• Minor bug fixes
• [speed] now works
• IE now works

[macc]

have installed and works fine ... how i can adjust time on shoutbox because it is now 02.42 and it shows 19:42 ?

and can i get bold usernames and how?

thanks and regards

macc

[FreshFroot]

nice concept, love the idea mate

[digicom]

dinnerbone i carnt find a template called GSBOS,any ideas

Advanced users may also wish to customise the way GSBOS looks. GSBOS uses only one template, called 'GSBOS', which you may feel free to edit. This template will allow you to customise the colours, fonts and overall look of GSBOS.

[dinnerbone]

Aha, I found out why it wasn't working. For some reason the 'gsbos' template wasn't adding itself to the xml file. I'll release an update in a few minutes.

For now, you may create a custom template called 'gsbos' and add the following to it. Be sure to delete this before installing the new version when it becomes available.

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" align="center" colspan="3">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('gsbos')"><img id="collapseimg_gsbos" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_gsbos].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
GSBOS
</td>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody id="collapseobj_gsbos" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_gsbos]">

<tr>
<td align="left" width="100%" style="background-color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_background]};color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_foreground]};padding:0px;">

<div id="gsbosshow" class="smallfont" style="overflow:auto;width:100%;height:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_height]}px;background-color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_background]};color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_foreground]};">
#GSBOS&gt; Loading...
</div>
<div id="gsbosinput" class="smallfont" style="width:100%;background-color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_background]};color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_foreground]};">
<form action="gsbos.php" name="gsbosform" onsubmit="gsbos.sendInput(); return false;">
&gt;<input type="text" name="message" id="gsbos_message" class="smallfont" style="width:95%;background-color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_background]};color:{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_foreground]};border:none;" />
</form>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/gsbos.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
gsbos = new gsbosEngine();
gsbos.init(<if condition="$vbulletin->options[gsbos_typo_enable]">{$vbulletin->options[gsbos_typo_rate]}<else />0</if>, {$vbulletin->options[gsbos_speed_message]}, {$vbulletin->options[gsbos_refresh_interval]} * 1000);
-->
</script>

Please remove the script that germinus posted too, as they will conflict.

[soniceffect]

anyone else having problems with updating settings?

[dinnerbone]

Version 1.0.2 has just been released. You can now position this on any page, and through this the silly bug that it wasn't showing up has now been fixed. It also now includes a flood protector, which you can customise in the options.

Note that with the new version you must make manual template alterations to make this appear on your pages. See the readme.txt for instructions.

[macc]

hello!

can some help ...what to do to get actual time - not 7 hours differents -

now shows 13:07 - but it is 20:07

some help?

regards

macc

[dinnerbone]

Sorry about that, I used date() instead of vbdate(). I'll fix it in the next version. If you want to fix it yourself, open up includes/functions_gsbos.php and look for a line like this:

$time = date($vbulletin->options['gsbos_date_format'], $timestamp)

and replace it with

$time = vbdate($vbulletin->options['gsbos_date_format'], $timestamp);

Alternatively, wait for the next version and it'll be fixed then

[macc]

thanks - works now

just one - how to put another color in text box - mean write text box - put border-solid but will change color

reg
macc

[germinus]

Still shows as v1.0.1 in admincp, you need to edit your xml!