Chat smileys approach... Possible?

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:24 pm

The chat program we're making would definately look more cool if we could support smileys, but i don't have any idea of how to do this. Actually i've got 2 ideas, but none of them seems reliable enough... The first one would be to use a WebGadget, but we have a problem here... How can we add a new line to the contained page without having to refresh it each time an user sends a message? This would be the fastest way, and there is an alternative to this, using an EditorGadget, but I really can't figure out how to add the graphics to a specific location in the text (on the fly).

Is this possible in the first place? I would really appreciate any idea or code example. If it is too hard to make i'll quit trying to make this part.

Thanks in advance !

White Eagle · Post by **White Eagle** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:52 pm

How can we add a new line to the contained page without having to refresh it each time an user sends a message?

Wouldn't this work?
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=16837

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:53 pm

I guess it would, but it would not be that 'professional' to refresh each time somebody sends a message... I need some ideas of how to do this...

White Eagle · Post by **White Eagle** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:59 pm

*scratches my head* I might be missing something, the code I linked to above doesn't require a refresh, does it? Or am I remembering wrong?

I have not used that code to try and insert graphics, but I have used it with text in a "chat type" environment, and not had any issues.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:02 pm

GOD!!! I really really must start wearing glasses... Or get to sleep earlier... I didn't even see the link

. Thanks, i'll study it!

White Eagle · Post by **White Eagle** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:12 pm

Hehe, that happens to me all the time

Character · Post by **Character** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:11 am

I also didn't see it.
not possible on this forum to underline links by default instead of showing up after hoovering over it?

White Eagle · Post by **White Eagle** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:32 am

I dunno, from now on I will just paste the link and not use the forums "url" commands, they never appear right for me on any browser.

Edited above post to clearly show the link.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:08 pm

They may display differently depending on which phpbb "style" is selected also.

cheers

Joakim Christiansen · Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:53 pm

Why don't you just color your link?

Character · Post by **Character** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:02 pm

Why don't you just color your link

hé, you're a smart guy

White Eagle · Post by **White Eagle** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:13 pm

Joakim Christiansen wrote:Why don't you just color your link?

Or, I could underline it

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:21 pm

This part is done now

. What about automatically scrolling the contents down with every line added? How can i do that?

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:05 pm

You mean something like this?

Code: Select all

SendMessage_(GadgetID(#Main_Chat),#EM_SCROLL,#SB_BOTTOM,0)

Each time you add text to the editorgadget use that line.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:45 pm

Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work

. The scroll doesn't occur in the webgadget

.

[Edit]
My bad... I didn't specify i needed this for the WebGadget... I'm sorry for that.