thanks to martin i have the chat mod installed but i was wondering if it is possible to adjust this once it is set up? im pleased with the room but i would prefer that the text scrolled up the screen from the bottom rather than down the screen from the top?

is it possile to change this?

I've had a couple of requests fir this so I'll do some code changes.

hi martin i  hada problem with my board and have had to reinstall it i have the boards and everything back up but the chat has disapeared even tho i just inserted it back into the locations that they were in before i reinstalled  the board is here have a look at it so you can see whats wrong http://www.westcoastanglers.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl? i think you still have my ftp settings can you have a look at it for me i would be most greatful thank you  

I'll take a look, give me a few minutes.

I can't even join, I just get an error, the permissions are all screwed again.

thank you martin your a star

Not sure what is going on here, very strange.  I tried to join as Martin and it errored so I tried Warlock and it errored again. I go to the forum and it says that Warlock is the latest member, strange thing is, I'm looking at the member list on the ftp and Warlock is not in LastMem.txt, have you installed to the same site as before?
I don't remember seeing the tips-r-us bit before so I'm probably ftp'd into the wrong site.


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Ignore that, I was entering the forum from your sites index and it links to a different forum?

lol i forgot to tell you i am running two e blah forums lol but i only want one with chat lol thanks again

All done, enjoy.

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thanks to martin i have the chat mod installed but i was wondering if it is possible to adjust this once it is set up? im pleased with the room but i would prefer that the text scrolled up the screen from the bottom rather than down the screen from the top?

is it possile to change this?

Sorry it took so long, I forgot all about it, Any way, here's the solution.

Open chat-text.pl  and look for:

Code if ($chatTo) { $chatTo = "<i>says to $chatTo</i>"; } $chatText = "$chatHandle $chatTo &raquo; $chatText"; push(@newChatText, "$chatText<!--$chatTime--><br>\n");

and change it to:

Code @chatText = sort{$b <=> $a} @chatText; if ($chatTo) { $chatTo = "<i>says to $chatTo</i>"; } $chatText = "$chatHandle $chatTo &raquo; $chatText"; push(@newChatText, "$chatText<!--$chatTime--><br>\n");

I have been overhauling my SectionGWG Forums and some members requested that I add a simple chat mod to our forums. So naturally, I remember that you made one but never really had a chance to use it until now. And so far we are liking them quite a bit but I have like two questions or requests that you might be able to answer.

I installed your Screenname tweak to the chatroom with no problems and the members really liked that since some of them, including myself, have changed our Screennames from our account names. I have also did some minor edits and tweaks, mainly formatting and text displayed, but I have ran into a few little issues.

The first one is that I installed your auto-scrolling text mod for the chat room but was also using the reverse display for the chat room text. So the new chat text was appearing at the bottom, like most of my members are used to, but then when the auto-scroll would kick in using the above code, it would move it back to the top. It created its own little game of ping pong and while getting a laugh, I couldn't leave it as it was. I tried searching through the auto-scroll but couldn't seem to find the way to switch the order for new posts to auto-scroll going downward instead of on top. Maybe its something real simple that I was just overlooking and perhaps you can help figure it out for me.

Another is that I tried matching the chat room more to my forum theme that uses backgrounds, but it seems either the autoscroll or chat refresh would make the page go back to having a white background until somebody typed then it would show my background image again. I have disabled customizing the chat room more until you can perhaps find a fix or solution to this strange glitch.

All in all very nice work Martin and I hope that you can take a look at this two things when you have the chance. Lastly, I wouldn't mind if you gave me your opinion on my current theme and customized look that I am in the process of making for my boards. Constructive criticism from a few people outside of myself would be very helpful.

Take care and thanks in advance.

First the theme looks great, a very good color combination.

On to the chat. I am just writing the next release so that will sort the scrolling, there will be a choice to reverse the chat summary for those who want it.

As for the background color, I have joined your forum and looked at your source code for the template. Here's the problem, the chat gets it's info from the theme, if the member has chosen his own theme then the chat will use the same CSS file if not the CSS file for the default theme is used.

You have set your background in the <BODY> tag of the template:

<body style="background-attachment: fixed" background="/blahdocs/template/tranquillity/images/bg_softer.gif">

If you want the chat to have the same background then you need remove the <BODY> tag entry and add it to your CSS file instead.

Thats funny I thought I had my background info stated in my CSS files for my theme all this time until I looked after reading your post. I am glad you like the customizing that I have done so far. The graphics are part of my second forum theme but I figured I would release the graphics now until I finish making that more elaborate theme based from the GUI within Guild Wars.

Glad to hear that there is a new version of the chat module in the works, its been pretty good so far and I'm sure it will be well recieved. The background part was very easy to fix; I guess that show you that its probably not a good idea to be working on modifying the forum or making graphics for it at like 3 or 4 in the morning.