New version chatbox

Doesn't look like it. The weird flashing image (of wires, on Synthesis) that used to appear when I moused over someone's avatar is gone too.

Edit: spoke too soon. The weird flashing wires thing doesn't happen in THIS thread, but happens in others. Buh?

User join/leave notifications added at KA's request.

Good going KA.

Here's a suggestion, get rid of the counter that displays people leaving and joining the chat, it just clusterfucks it up.

Here's a suggestion, get rid of the counter that displays people leaving and joining the chat, it just clusterfucks it up.

Yeah. It does really. Maybe a way to prevent multible "has left," "had joined" in a row from one user.

Trust me, I've been thinking the same thing since I implemented it, but I'm not sure how to make it work. When I get home, I'm going to disable them on the recent messages display, though.

I'm thinking atleast make the timeout longer, instead of 1 minute or whatever it's set at, put it more like 30 minutes, and no duplicates within 30 minutes or something...

At that time scale, it would be useless. As I said, I wanted to remove in and out messages with no messages between them (on the log or when starting, but you'd still get them if you were in-channel ATM), but there's no point in telling you that someone has left the chat 30 minutes after it happens. I do intend to reduce the timeout on communications so that they will retry before you idle out of the chat, but it would appear that your real problem is due to trying to use the minichatbox in the same window while you browse arround the forum, which really isn't viable untill the next phase.

In this update, I've removed comm timeouts. That's not to say that they can't happen, but they won't be so intrusive. The new system uses an adaptive timeout so that it should quickly recover from network/server transients, but still work on higher latency connections. Also, instead of a comm timeout message, the update time will change color to indicate high latency. To top it all off, the popup chatbox uses a different domain so that other Zelaron activity doesn't squash the chatbox under the "two simultaneous connections per domain" rule; couldn't fix this for the mini chatbox as HTTPXMLRequest doesn't allow cross domain requests.

Also this version, you can see who's in the chatbox from the recent messages display, to hopefully prevent some of that retarded in-and-out that certain people likes to do.

Nice work WW.

Persistant chatbox is up. If you're AFK for 5 minutes, it will close. Idlers can idle in the real chatbox.

The chatbox rox

The chatbox rox

Useless Revival! Ban him! :)

Nice Job WW. I probably use the chatbox more than I post.

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I honestly hate those smiley faces. I like the =/ face the best