 September 10, 2007 - 6:31am | No there isn't. That chat applet is third-party and it's a canned app. I have no ability to interact with it whatsoever. I can just launch it. That's part of the reason I wish I had one that was open source that I could work with more. Sorry, but I can't give this feature currently. 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
 September 10, 2007 - 6:36am | Oh well! It was worth a try. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan |
 September 10, 2007 - 6:56am | This would be an acceptable compromise to my idea. Rogue, You may not be able to interact directly with the applet, but would you not be able to have the chat applet pop up in a frame, instead of raw? That way, you could detect activity (like keystrokes or returns and mouse clicks) in the frame. You could also give a 1 minute indicator to chat window launches based on the click of the original link. Maybe, as I was saying before, have a green light for a 1 minute indicator, and red light for keystrokes or returns and mouse clicks. |
September 10, 2007 - 7:00am | In fact, if you could just put the green and red indicators next to the Chat link that detects all activity, so that we know it is busy, and then put a single 1 minute indicator next to each member's name that keys from their keystrokes or returns and mouse clicks while in the room. Of course, this is all assuming the frame idea works. |
September 10, 2007 - 7:34am | I'm going to try the following: When a user opens the chat window, it will set a variable to TRUE in his account info. When he closes the chat window (javascript has the OnLoad and OnUnload events) I'll reset that variable to FALSE. That would be a proper event-driven way to do it, since I can't query the third-party applet for a list (besides, people can log on with any nickname, not necessarily their nickname on this site!!). Then I can make the online LED idicator change to another color (BLUE?) or something. 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
September 10, 2007 - 11:36am | Everything seems to be working great now. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan |
September 10, 2007 - 11:38am | Okay - orange indicators mean someone is online... green indicators mean someone is in chat. :-) 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
September 10, 2007 - 12:18pm | Okay - orange indicators mean someone is online... green indicators mean someone is in chat. :-) say what?  then I must be in chat because I'm green. 
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September 10, 2007 - 12:20pm | haha Okay - orange indicators mean someone is online... green indicators mean someone is in chat. :-) say what? then I must be in chat because I'm green.
3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
September 10, 2007 - 7:03pm | This has already provided a significant boost to chat activity. knowing that someone is in chat makes chat the place to go. also, i recommend sorting the Who's Online box based on who is in chat as the primary sort and who logged on most recently as the secondary sort. |
