The chat box

[҉]

Most of the time when I post something there, it sends multiple posts. Sometimes two or three, but sometimes dozens. I was talking with Prototype about this, and I saw his posts repeating, too, but he said he only saw one copy of them. I dunno what's going on.

[Chairman_Tiel]

What browser art thou using?

The reason it does this, I believe, is because it ignores the flood limit for both of you. Now that I know why that's there, I think it's safe to make everyone wait 5 seconds between posting messages again.

[Iv121]

How do you extend the chat history ? It shows me only 6 posts at a time which turns it into quite useless for me .

[fr0stbyte124]

Is there any way to make it autobump only if you are scrolled down all the way? It's really hard to read the previous messages when it takes you back to the most recent entry every 10 seconds.

Also from a layout standpoint, I would prefer no portraits if it meant more lines could be displayed in the window.

*EDIT*
From the page source, it looks like
var mChatFocuxFix = true; is responsible for refocusing the window.

also, if mChatArchiveMode was set to true, would that give us back the archive? Or does it require extra modules on the server?

I would help more, but I'm having difficulty locating the mini-chat source. There's lots of scripting tips on how to use it, but everybody seems to intrinsically have the module already.

[Avenger_7]

It also needs to be a different colour.

[fr0stbyte124]

Css is simple enough to modify. Probably wouldn't take more than half an hour to make it look good with the tools I have on hand, but I can't do anything until after work. It would be better if there was already a theme matching the rest of the board.

[Chairman_Tiel]

You'll excuse my irritation, but for god's sake that has to be the seventh or eighth time someone has pointed that out. I'm not colorblind. I know. I just haven't had the time to tinker around with it to better seam with the forum's theme. Until the point where I can get around to figuring out what confounded way it handles CSS, no one's twisting your arm to use it.

[hyperlite]

Tiel, ummmm, the chatbox kind of doesn't go with the color scheme of the forum. I am going to refer you to Dr. Thomas Azman, read about him here.

http://www.colormax.org/about.htm

You obviously need your color vision back, because you don't have it right now. Go and get it my colorblind bird.

[fr0stbyte124]

Lol, birds actually have 4 types of cones and can see well into the ultraviolet spectrum.

[hyperlite]

But Tiel is no normal bird. He is "special".

[fr0stbyte124]

@Tiel
From forum/style.php:

/**
*
* @package mChat ProSilver Style
* @version 1.3.5 2010-12-02
* @copyright (c) RMcGirr83 ( http://www.rmcgirr83.org/ )
* @copyright (c) By Shapoval Andrey Vladimirovich (AllCity) ~ http://allcity.net.ru/
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
*
**/
Found the module in the first link. According to the directory tree, there should be a file which looks like
\styles\prosilver\theme\mchat.css

Which is what gets read into style.php.

[Chairman_Tiel]

Yes, in order to change the style you have to make a call to a custom css file.

[fr0stbyte124]

Looks like the line
@import url("mchat.css");
in styles/prosilver/theme/stylesheet.css

[fr0stbyte124]

Okay, I made a new stylesheet.

http://pastebin.com/zbrtuQY1

I had to edit it by hand and I couldn't test it afterward because of the php thing, so it's possible I still missed something, but give it a try.

I also didn't disable the portraits because that appears to just make the window smaller, not change the number of visible lines.

[Keon]

Just a question, how does ACH see computer things then? Does he somehow add a fourth pixel to everything to account for what it's UV would be?