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!

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Hai! me again.

Would it be possible to add an option to have everyone on the friend list, rather than your friends? - we have a small(ish) forum and its a bit of a pain having to add everyone as friends to allow each other to chat.

Thanks!

As we have said numerous times, that is a feature we plan to add.

Originally Posted by dog199200

No it's fine, i can do it on my own. If you don't mind, where in the style does the javascript get stored? My problem is that i've had a hard time finding any of it within my template

Most of what you will need is in the iwt_idealchat_bottombar template. The rest of it can be found in the global_start plugins for both of the products.

[clubvr4]

ok, thanks for responding.

I noted a weird bug?

If i watch chat for a bit go away to view say FB on another tab and come back, i would see loads of a new text that the forum members have typed - but, if i hit new posts or forum root - all that new text dissapears and i see only the text i was reading prior to leaving the forum tab in the first instance..

Hope that makes sense.. lol.

so to replicate.

1. type stuff in general chat blah blah blah..
2. go away to another tab on your browser, surf some....
3. come back to forum tab and you would see new text from people talking
4. hit new posts.
5. all the new text from leaving the page at stage 2 dissapears and you are left with the old text.

Its a bit annoying this bug

EDIT: I have found now that any new text is not saved.

ty

[clubvr4]

Sorry, one last thing for tonight.

Any new person joining General Chat, can it be so that they do not see any history? - imagine someone is talking about someone behind their backs and all of a sudden they join chat and see all of the history? - please make is so that this isnt possible.

Thanks

[clubvr4]

Just to further on the issue previously highlighted.

It seems that only general is affected by this.. a moderator an i spammed a PM message to death, refreshing (new posts) at regular intervals, at no point did the text reset.

However, performing the same tests on General would see all new text deleted.

There are exactly 1000 characters in history?! maybe general chat can only hold so much and doesnt accept new?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

ok, thanks for responding.

I noted a weird bug?

If i watch chat for a bit go away to view say FB on another tab and come back, i would see loads of a new text that the forum members have typed - but, if i hit new posts or forum root - all that new text dissapears and i see only the text i was reading prior to leaving the forum tab in the first instance..

Hope that makes sense.. lol.

so to replicate.

1. type stuff in general chat blah blah blah..
2. go away to another tab on your browser, surf some....
3. come back to forum tab and you would see new text from people talking
4. hit new posts.
5. all the new text from leaving the page at stage 2 dissapears and you are left with the old text.

Its a bit annoying this bug

EDIT: I have found now that any new text is not saved.

ty

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Sorry, one last thing for tonight.

Any new person joining General Chat, can it be so that they do not see any history? - imagine someone is talking about someone behind their backs and all of a sudden they join chat and see all of the history? - please make is so that this isnt possible.

Thanks

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Just to further on the issue previously highlighted.

It seems that only general is affected by this.. a moderator an i spammed a PM message to death, refreshing (new posts) at regular intervals, at no point did the text reset.

However, performing the same tests on General would see all new text deleted.

Thank for reporting this, we will look into this and see what may be causing it.

As for the general chat history, we can see about making a setting for that. (Although we believe that anything you have to say about someone should be said to their face!)

[clubvr4]

sorry, me again.... lol..

Links, they dont auto link, please can this be corrected.

[clubvr4]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Thank for reporting this, we will look into this and see what may be causing it.

As for the general chat history, we can see about making a setting for that. (Although we believe that anything you have to say about someone should be said to their face!)

Just to add a bit more info, all 3 of us in chat all rest to the same bit of text, i.e. the 1000 characters, all new text is erased - so we all see the same 1000 characters of text remain when we reffresh the page.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

sorry, me again.... lol..

Links, they dont auto link, please can this be corrected.

That is not a bug, links do not get auto parsed in the lite version. That is one of the features we have reserved only for the pro version currently.

[clubvr4]

I know, i know! you hate me

Another suggestion...

Would it be possible on the general tab to show how many people are in there? maybe General (2) for example? perhaps fruther down the line hoevering over the number would show the names?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

I know, i know! you hate me

Another suggestion...

Would it be possible on the general tab to show how many people are in there? maybe General (2) for example? perhaps fruther down the line hoevering over the number would show the names?

This is something we want to do, but we're not happy with any of the solutions we have come up with yet. Once we have a solution that we feel is sound, we will implement it.