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!

[basilrath]

Its buggy and still not working as the bowob does but ill deff try this new update

I want to say firstly IWT you are trying like hell to fix this and i for one absolutely appreciate the time and effort that goes into this .......... crikey its the wife that screams when hours turn into days .............. we have all played that lol

Hope you crack it

[mikem164]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Thank you all for reporting this products with conflicts, we will be looking into them all and seeing what all we can do so later versions won't have them!





Could both of you give us a link to your site, as well as a log in to see the issue?



1. Currently, when you close your browser and reopen it, it shows the last 24 hours of messages. It was the method we choose to go with for the moment until we have the the system in place to mark messages as read, after which it will only show unread ones. (Sorry if it bothers you)

2. I think the stylevars you are looking for are icbb_chat_bg & icbb_chat_color, if not, please let us know.

I don't see icbb_chat_color... I think you mean icbb_new_message_color? I don't know because it won't change an existing chat and no way to end it, so new window color shows. Is that correct?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by DNCL

Did you test it in FF5? cause it seems to be working with other browsers, plus there is no avatars in this version (default avatar for all users)

Yes, it was tested in FF5, and it worked fine. As for the avartars, we have received a couple reports of those not working in the new version, so we will look into that.

Originally Posted by strudinox

That last update helped, but it's still not working as it should. Instead of not showing up at all, now it just hangs on a loading bar, and the Settings and Chat Room buttons are unresponsive.

Also, it doesn't show up at all on CMS pages. Just the forums.

Could you please provide us with a link to check this out?

Originally Posted by basilrath

Its buggy and still not working as the bowob does but ill deff try this new update

I want to say firstly IWT you are trying like hell to fix this and i for one absolutely appreciate the time and effort that goes into this .......... crikey its the wife that screams when hours turn into days .............. we have all played that lol

Hope you crack it

We are trying to iron out any and all of these minor bugs when they come up; however, of all the bugs reported, only a couple of people have even been willing to give us their url so we can see the issue, and only one of the people who did give us a url actually had anything that might be considered a bug.

It's very hard to fix bugs when people just say it doesn't work, and then never respond again so you can figure out how it doesn't work and how to replicate it, or see it not working in action.

So people, please, if your going to report it not working, give details of how it doesn't work, maybe even a screenshot, or best yet, a url to see it on the actual board it's not working on.

Originally Posted by mikem164

I don't see icbb_chat_color... I think you mean icbb_new_message_color? I don't know because it won't change an existing chat and no way to end it, so new window color shows. Is that correct?

Sorry, I think those style vars we're actually added in the new version. If you grab the new version, you should see them. If you don't want to upgrade currently, you can always change them in the css itself.

[basilrath]

ill wack it back on my board and give you access

[PamelaE]

This is great but I can't get it to work. Everything appears as it should but nothing comes up if you click on settings, friends show 3 but if I click on it I just get the loading bar which never ends..

I have disabled plugins and nothing. Any ideas?
http://www.soapchat.net

I have tried on IE and latest FF

[morelia]

Got it running! Sweet little mod!

1 thing though:

When the user signs in, it opens up all of chat sessions from the previous visit? It's a bit annoying to have 5/6 boxes popup along the bottom everytime you log in.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by morelia

Got it running! Sweet little mod!

1 thing though:

When the user signs in, it opens up all of chat sessions from the previous visit? It's a bit annoying to have 5/6 boxes popup along the bottom everytime you log in.

As we have said before, that is only temporary until we get message read tracking in place.

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Also, to let everyone know, yes something is wrong with the avatars in the new version, and we will be fixing that for the next release!

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by PamelaE

This is great but I can't get it to work. Everything appears as it should but nothing comes up if you click on settings, friends show 3 but if I click on it I just get the loading bar which never ends..

I have disabled plugins and nothing. Any ideas?
http://www.soapchat.net

I have tried on IE and latest FF

Thank you for posting this link. The reason your bottom bar isn't work is that for some reason the wrong document type is being returned.

Now that we know what the problem is, we will be looking into a cause for it, as well as a fix for it!

[PamelaE]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Thank you for posting this link. The reason your bottom bar isn't work is that for some reason the wrong document type is being returned.

Now that we know what the problem is, we will be looking into a cause for it, as well as a fix for it!

Thanks for all your work on this and your quick responses. Looking forward to having this working.

[Sayrex]

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