Gmg Chat now Active! Wish List Here!

[Gan]

You guys probably noticed a fancy new chat box in place of that flash monster. Yes, it's true. We have a new chat box.

Features:
- Remembers your username! You type it once and never have to again.
- Non-obtrusive. Doesn't take much page space.
- Stretchy, resizes to however you like your window to be.
- Non-Cluttered, see a bunch of messages at once!
- iPad/iPhone/iTouch compatible! Chat whilst not at your Mac!
- Completely homebrew by the Gmg for the Gmg!
- Customizable. Due to it being made from scratch, literally any feature imaginable can be added.
- View the entire chat history through the Full History button!
- Able to color images using: [color=255,0,0] at the beginning of your message as well as bold , italic , underline and strike [s ]!

Actions:

Code: [Select]

/kick Bob
/meg Bob
/eat Bob's lunch
/highfive Bob
/custom fist pumped Bob.

Specifications:
- Plenty of chat space to show 10 messages.
- Updates the messages every second.
- Loads the page with the previous 30 messages loaded but can hold infinite messages.
- Incredibly low data usage.


Todo:
*Optimize Chat Box
*Fix TimeStamp to show your timezone
*Add Smilies
*Add Actions
*Fix chat to add an extra row when not on an iOS device
*Better controls. At the bottom have check boxes for:
Bold, Italics, Underline, Striked and text boxes for R G B color text. Maybe even add a smiley line and possibly a drop down box with actions.
*/custom action where you can write your own.
*Fix send so you can't send two of the same message.
*Maybe still a news thing at the top
*Message beep or alert. Able to turn off and on.


What do you guys want in the chat? Got comments on it? Post!

[Gan]

Unfortunate news. It looks like my free host, 000webhost.com, isn't as good as they say they are.
Yes they offer a range of features freely but they say there's a 99% uptime. By looking through people's comments I'd have to say that's a lie.

This chat box won't be too exciting running off this host. Because as of this moment it's down.
Does anyone have a site with SQL and PHP enabled where they wouldn't mind giving me some privileges to run the chat box from?

Got a new reliable host from WarHampster. Fast too. Gonna be good. The chat box will be back up when Silver updates the iFrame code.

[Connors]

I can see the chats just fine at the moment! Or has it been shutting off from time to time?

Also I recommend you find a way to keep people from copying others' names and changing theirs all the time because right now it could just become a huge mess. Not that anyone here makes a hobby of trollin' but something should change.

[Charlo]

I can see the chats just fine at the moment! Or has it been shutting off from time to time?

Also I recommend you find a way to keep people from copying others' names and changing theirs all the time because right now it could just become a huge mess. Not that anyone here makes a hobby of trollin' but something should change.

This is a problem with most chatboxes if they're not integrated with the forum software.  It would be nearly impossible to achieve without grabbing user data from YaBB's user database, which would involve having admin access.  A quick scan over YaBB's modification database yields http://www.boardmod.org/mods.php?searchfor=chatmod.zip, but again, it involves having admin access to install.

One way to do it would be to make it so that only a certain IP address can use a certain username, but that would be bad news for people who have non-static IP's or those who would want to post in the shoutbox from somewhere other than their home.  

[Gan]

Yeah, Charlo's right.
Putting some sort of name guard would be an inconvenience. I'm not sure there's much we can do about it until Ghost catches wind of the addition and grants me the power to integrate directly into the forum.

Now besides the chat, what features would you guys like?
I'm thinking smilies and timestamps.

[Gan]

Don't worry, the chat's in construction.

I'm redoing the entire messaging system. Making it more efficient.
Right now it reloads the latest 30 messages every 10 seconds. I'm working on making it load only new messages every second.
It'll update faster and consume less data usage.

[Gan]

The chat has finished construction!

What's new?
* The chat updates every second.
* The chat only loads new messages.
* The chat doesn't kill previous messages. So if you need to quickly backtrack through your conversation without hitting Full History, you can just scroll down.
* Every message call uses only 15 bytes of data!(Unless a new message is being loaded) Which means if you accidentally leave the GMG chat page open for 5 hours, the chat will only use 0.5mb of data! Very good for those with iDevices that are on limited plans.

[Gan]

Added an action:

Code: [Select]

/kick [Name]

You guys want any more actions?

[Gan]

Which do you like best?

[Silverwind]

The line-drop makes it easier to read. As for actions:

Code: [Select]

/eat [object]

Code: [Select]

/meg [name]

That's "Magically eye gouges" in case you were wondering!

[Gan]

Added em!

Code: [Select]

/eat Silverwind's pie
//Gan ate Silverwind's pie. It was yummy!

Code: [Select]

/meg Gnome
//Gan Magically eye gouges Gnome!

Plus I made the text spread out for readability. If you guys want me to revert it back just say so.

Also made actions bold to give them a bit more distinctiveness.

If you don't like something or really want something just say so!

[Gan]

The chat box is entering construction for a bit as I get rid of duplicate messages!

[Gan]

Messages don't duplicate any more! I also bumped up the message updating speed to 0.5 seconds!
We can have fast reliable conversations now.  

Edit: /highfive added.

[Connors]

You ought to add one that removes the colon so you can make up third person stuff yourself, in addition to the pre-made ones:

Code: [Select]

/say Connors trips over Silverwind's cape.
//Connors trips over Silverwind's cape.
[2011-07-19 12:30:56] Connors: Hey!

But maybe not /say
perhaps /third ?

EDIT:

Connors Magically eye gouges Gan!

Make that a lower-case M!

[Gan]

Sure I'll lowercase the M.

I need a second opinion on the third person feature. It opens up a lot of possibilities but I'm unsure if it'll increase the fun or not.