i wanna chat plz

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i wanna chat plz

Postby Ixon Fier » Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:43 am

is it just me or is the chat messed up, i went down and checked out the new icon for harvard(lol) and then my chat was gone :cry:
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Postby Cory » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:00 am

Its back, new and sorta improved I think :)

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Postby Anc@l@gon the Black » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:03 am

I think it's worse

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Postby Cory » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:06 am

Hmm, I think I see some annoying parts I will try to work out. I want to have the chat window scroll to the bottom where the new stuff is, but the only way to do that is to focus on the chat bar which moves the entire page if the chat bar is not in view. This can be annoying when running through town. Maybe I will just turn the focus off and make you scroll

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Postby Anc@l@gon the Black » Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:23 am

I don't wanna scroll. I want the old 1 back.

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Postby Ben » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:21 am

I think scrolling is just fine as long as

1) the most recent messages are shown automatically

2) the input new chat field is OUTSIDE the scroll area

Anyway, the old way took up too much screen.
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Postby Unifex » Sat Jul 12, 2003 12:57 am

Ben wrote:I think scrolling is just fine as long as

1) the most recent messages are shown automatically

2) the input new chat field is OUTSIDE the scroll area

Anyway, the old way took up too much screen.


I was just about to say these too.

There's two ways to tackle the recent messages thing.

First, at the end of the page add this;

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<a name="endchat" />

Then, whenever you call the chat.php add #endchat to it. This should make it scroll to that point once it's loaded.

The other way to deal with it is to reverse the order of the records via SQL when you retreive them from the database.

Regarding the chat input form... Have the chat form in the main page and set the forms target="" to the name="" of the inlineframe. You'll need to add that name="" I see.

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Postby Cory » Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:15 am

I've actually already done both of those. The descending sorted SQL looked bad, and the focus on the anchor scrolled the entire page not just the chat, if the entire chat box wasn't on the screen. This is very bad for fast movement.

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Postby Unifex » Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:19 am

Not sure I follow you.

When you had the anchor at the end of the chat.php output it also scrolled the page that had the inline frame?

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Postby Cory » Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:24 am

Exactly, it scrolled so the whole inline frame was in view, then it scrolled the frame.

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Postby Unifex » Sun Jul 13, 2003 2:28 am

Ah. I see what you mean. You could make the text size smaller and throw it in the right hand sidebar at the top...


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