h4-ck-3r Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 I'm having trouble either removing, or resizing the sizable bar on the shoutbox. I find it's a little to large, so I went into the skins CSS, and edited this line in Skin_shoutbox -> Shoutbox: <img src='{$this->settings['img_url']}/spacer.gif' id='shouts-resizer' border='0' height='6px' alt='{$this->lang->words['resize_shouts_area']}' style='margin-bottom:-5px;cursor:n-resize;width:100%' /> to a height of 2px, though it doesn't seem to change anything. Any ideas how to edit this bar?
Michael Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 Changing the height value there should change it just fine, I just verified this on my site. The bar is only 6px high as it is. There is some white area around it, but that is from the padding of the table cell the bar is in.
h4-ck-3r Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 Changing the height value there should change it just fine, I just verified this on my site. The bar is only 6px high as it is. There is some white area around it, but that is from the padding of the table cell the bar is in. Thanks, I ended up getting it to what I wanted, more or less. :)
Ruud66 Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Hi Michael, ( After posting twice in the wrong place, I feel small and stupid now that I found de right place :baby: ) I like to upgrade to the latest version but I'm afraid to loose my Dutch Translation. Just to make shore, can I just upload the new files and click on upgrade or something? Thanks in advance and many thanks for your fantastic shoutbox! Kind Regards, Ruud
Michael Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 An application upgrade should never overwrite any customizations you'd done to that app, apart from actual code-level edits. That being said, I've never actually upgraded an app when I also had a non-English translation of the app installed too. My best guess is that you'll be fine, but you may want to send off a quick ticket to IPS to confirm this, as it would be something that would be the same for all applications.
Ruud66 Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Ok, I will do that, thanks very much for your time and reply.
DeRealDeano Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 The only thing I can suggest then is letting me look at your site directly. PM me FTP and Admin CP details if you'd like me to take a look. Sorry about the late reply Michael, Yes I would love that. I will send you the details via PM shortly.
Marcher Technologies Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Michael.. do a solid and check your PM's.... put an IPC block together that's been asked for quite a few times... its attached.
Michael Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Feel free to submit it to the Marketplace if you'd like, I don't plan on including it as part of this app since it's not something that can be added to a site automatically through a standard application install.
Marcher Technologies Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Feel free to submit it to the Marketplace if you'd like, I don't plan on including it as part of this app since it's not something that can be added to a site automatically through a standard application install. Will do, appreciate the response and permission.
Michael Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Sorry about the late reply Michael, Yes I would love that. I will send you the details via PM shortly. It's there on your site:
DeRealDeano Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 It's there on your site: Its not showing on the board index page which is where I would like it :(
Michael Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Yes, it is, I took that screenshot from your board index.
DeRealDeano Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Maybe you misunderstood what I'm asking about. What i'm referring to is the Shoutbox (Global) to display the chats on my board index. Like this screenshot I took from ipbforumskins.
Michael Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Yes, I did misunderstand you, because you said you had the same issue as someone who was reporting that the Active Users hook wasn't working. But even so, the Global Shoutbox is also showing just fine on your site for me:
Josh8 Posted October 8, 2011 Posted October 8, 2011 What would this error be?admin/applications_addon/other/shoutbox/sources/classes/library.php on line 390
Michael Posted October 8, 2011 Posted October 8, 2011 That's not an error, that's a file and a line number. I'm assuming you mean you see this error, in which case you should take the advice I gave to that person here.
DeRealDeano Posted October 8, 2011 Posted October 8, 2011 Yes, I did misunderstand you, because you said you had the same issue as someone who was reporting that the Active Users hook wasn't working. But even so, the Global Shoutbox is also showing just fine on your site for me: I'm not seeing anything at all :)
Michael Posted October 8, 2011 Posted October 8, 2011 Is it a certain skin you're not seeing it on, or all of them? Does your group have permission to see the Shoutbox?
The Old Man Posted October 9, 2011 Posted October 9, 2011 Hi, I have been consulting with IPS and my web host Wiredhub to track down some very long delays between pages loading which regularly result in a message that states Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later. Neither my web host or IPS can find anything wrong and I'm on a beefy server with lots of spare HDD space and resources, although its Shared Hosting. IPS have suggested it may be the Shoutbox as its visible on most of my pages except profiles, blogs and the gallery. I have the Shoutbox visible for my member only on most pages, we have a fairly quiet forum compared to most, about 10-15 posts a day from about 15 members a day on average. However the Global Shoutbox when enabled does seem to cause very long 20-30 seconds delays from when I click on any link on my board from any page that shows the global shoutbox. If I disable the global hook by selecting the option to view on the board index only, I would say the lag halves. My members will not like having it disabled except on the board index, but what else can I do? I have been running shoutbox for years without this problem until recent versions, and I currently using v1.2.3 for IPB Board 3.2.2. Any suggestions, folks?
Michael Posted October 9, 2011 Posted October 9, 2011 Show the shoutbox on fewer pages, or don't allow it to auto refresh as quickly. It will consume a lot of resources, there's no way to get this functionality without that.
Axel Wers Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 One simple thing: Could you add to the next version slash after shoutbox? We have /blogs/ /gallery/ /tracker/ but /shoutbox Let it be the same everywhere
The Old Man Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 Show the shoutbox on fewer pages, or don't allow it to auto refresh as quickly. It will consume a lot of resources, there's no way to get this functionality without that. Thanks Michael, I thought Shoutbox had been tweaked and optimised, I didn't realise it used such a lot of resources. What auto refresh setting do you recommend, I think mine is still on default?
Michael Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 It has been looked at to try and make it more resource friendly, yes, but that's not to say it still doesn't use a lot of resources. There's no way to have it not use a lot of resources if you're going to show it to every user on every page, and have it automatically refreshing all the time. I can't tell you what auto refresh setting you want. You'll have to experiment and figure out what is best for you.
Michael Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 One simple thing: Could you add to the next version slash after shoutbox? We have /blogs[color=#008000]/[/color] /gallery[color=#008000]/[/color] /tracker[color=#008000]/[/color] but /shoutbox Let it be the same everywhere This will be included in the next release.
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