built in shoutbox question

[lakelady]

is there a way to reverse how shouts appear in the shoutbox? I find that having the entry box on the bottom and the new shouts at the top rather annoying, not to mention backwards of how we read in real life. Is there a way to change this? Easily?


oh, and another question.....is it possible to have the shoutbox entry posted when a user hits return, instead of having to hit the shout button?

thanks

[G6Cad]

This question have been coverd a few times.
If you try and search for "shoutbox reverse" or "shoutbox order" it might come up.

Make sure you eather do the search from the advansed search page, or from the forum index page so the search works through all the forums and topics.

[lakelady]

I had searched using a few different terms and hadn't found any answers before posting my question. Thank you for suggesting some different terms. I used them as well just now and still haven't found an answer.

are there known conflicts with other chat boxes that are available out there? Are there other shoutboxes that have proven to work well in TP that have this modification?

[G6Cad]

Strange you didnt find that with the first suggestion i made, perhaps you didnt search from the advansed search page ?

Anyway, here is the topic that will give you what you want.
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=5481.0

[lakelady]

I read that thread and it looks to me there are still problems with the code to get it to do what we're looking for. Perhaps I'm missing something here (highly possible since I'm new to this)


Last two posts in that thread....


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Re: Change the order of posts in Shoutbox?
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That's all well and good but if I make the change as above and I have it set to show just the last 8 shouts I end up with the Shouts the wrong way round. So although it now scrolls the correct way it shows the first 8 shouts not the last 8. Anyone have an idea how to change that round?
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I could also use a solution for this..  Roll Eyes

[brianjw]

There really shouldnt be a problem if the conversations are backwords because it's for shouting a message and not having conversations like a chat room

[lakelady]

I'm sorry, I don't understand the distinction. In my experience people use the terms shoutbox and chatbox interchangeably.

[IchBin]

Looking at this I'm not sure how it can work. Still being a beginner coder myself I can't figure it out. The LIMIT retrieves the limit you set in the shoutbox settings. So when you change the ORDER BY to reverse the order your grabbing the earliest shouts instead of the latest shouts. I'll keep looking at it, but I'm unsure how it can work without sorting or ordering it by another column.

[brianjw]

What I mean...
Shoutbox = you post one thing and say like hey and a little story or goodnight

Chat = you talk to people either with autorefreshing equipment or flashchat and history is not saved in this.

The differences are bigger than you think

[lakelady]

What I mean...
Shoutbox = you post one thing and say like hey and a little story or goodnight

Chat = you talk to people either with autorefreshing equipment or flashchat and history is not saved in this.

The differences are bigger than you think

well, the built-in shoutbox in TP auto-refreshes and there is a history kept (at least the admin has access to it). soooooo....like I said, in my experience they are used interchangeably