Developers Chat Room

[Jared]

Here is a ScreenShot of my chat room.
I modified the images and the some of the code to feature button roll-overs.
Also the chat window is launched from within my forum so I can control the window and how it opens.  It looks better opening in a new window instead of using the PhpBB mod included with X7.

Depending on where X7 goes I'm already working on MODS and some image packages as alternatives to the UGLY generic interface that comes with X7.

Lets hope X7 continues to be developed so I'm not wasting my time.

[Jared]

I forgot to post the code to make the chat open in new window from within PhpBB.

The file to edit is either;
/templates/fisubsilversh/overall_header.tpl  
OR
/templates/SubSilver/overall_header.tpl

Code:

<a href="{U_CHATROOM}" onClick="NewWindow=window.open('http://www.domainname.com/forums/tMpp/X7Chat/','NewWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=650,height=500'); return false;">{L_CHATROOM}</a><img src="templates/fisubsilversh/images/icon_mini_chat.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_CHATROOM}" hspace="3" />

Hope this helps;

Jared
www.forums.jaredsdesigns.com

[E-Oreo]

Its looks great!

X7 Chat will continue to be developed, current developement is on Version 2 is programmed completely differently.  You should consider working on Mods for Version 2 when it is ready.  (The current Alpha-2 release of Version 2 will change considerably before launch however (especially in the style and template sections), so mods you write for hte alpha version may need to be modified to be compatible with the final V2 release.  Version 1 mods are not going to be compatible with Version 2 due to the massive structure changes)

[Jared]

E-Oreo
I have a few mods already in Alpha stage in my alpha directory on my server.  One in particular will put a drop down cascading menu in X7 Chat and another will create and advertising banner in the bottom of the chat window that can be turned on or off by the users.  I'm trying to get it to the point that it will accept FLASH banners.  I've been toying with the idea of also having the PhpBB2 shout box implemented in a popup.  I really want the ability to push pages to a chat user.

Jared.

[Jared]

P.S. I decided to become a registerd member of this forum since the program is being actively developed.  Which is cool.

I forgot to mention above that I intend to make all these mods FREE as they should be.  I'm building some theme packs and I'm not sure how I'm going to approach the development of them.  Still waiting to get a look at Alpha of X7?

My Major Migrane Headache:
To date the major headache is all the copyright stuff in X7 Chat.  A person with PHP knowledge could remove it but that would be truly rude and I believe wrong.  

Credit should be give where credit is do and X7 developers have a right to be proud of their project "product".  "HOWEVER" my 2-cents would be that X7 makes it easier to change the appearance and possibly the location of their copyright information to the bottom of the chat window and to where an Administrator could change the links colors to be more consistent with the theme of the the chat. Again, just my 2-cents.  

X7 has serious potential. It's not as bloated as PHPOpenChat which I have been testing with for more than a year. In addition PHPOpenChat is a "@#$%^!*" to install on some servers.

LAST:
There needs to be a place for MODS in the X7 Chat General Area or on the main X7 Forum.

Jared.

[E-Oreo]

The alpha version of X7 Chat 2 is available at http://x7chat.com/v2 (http://x7chat.com/v2).

One of the features of X7 Chat 2 is a skin system (still under developement, not available in the current alpha release), this will make skinning X7 Chat much easier and give the developer a much larger degree of flexibilty when it comes to moving around the copyright.  The current ALpha-2 release includes a sort of theme system, but not one with support for templates.  We plan on scrapping that current one and making a better theme system for V2 with support for custom templates as well as colors and images.

[Jared]

If you need some help on themes I'd be happy to post several for other users once you get your structure hashed out.

Jared.

[donald]

Nice