beta 0.7 - added admin option to set max. characters in chat messages. Added admin option to show / hide Chat button on Message Index. Fixed bug when excluding a board with the same id as a category.

New zip package attached to first post.

If no bugs or brilliant ideas emerge this will be the final version  

Thanks Derek - your testing is highly appreciated...

As far as i can tell the Super- / Subscript works as it's supposed to and the same way as in most (- FF) other browsers (and MS Word and OO Writer too   )

Please remember that a wysiwyg editor works very similar to ordinary word processors - you write your text and then you format it - or you write some text and then you click a button (say the Superscript button) and write the text you want in that format and then click the same button again to return to unformatted text.

About the delete alert, i did consider that but found i liked it better the way it is. Chat consists of small 'volatile' messages that should be easy to delete for moderators. When deleting five in a row i found it annoying to have to confirm every single time - but i guess that's a matter of opinion.

Derek Barnstorm wrote on Sep 30^th, 2009 at 8:42pm:

Yep - makes sense. Fixed. New package attached to first post.

Derek Barnstorm wrote on Oct 1^st, 2009 at 12:52am:

Nooo way!

Derek Barnstorm wrote on Oct 1^st, 2009 at 12:52am:

Yep i know - same thing in Opera. I've been struggeling with that little bugger for a while now. If you start with backward delete it actually goes to 300 

Yep, perfect!

I haven't noticed anything else amiss, so I should be able to leave you in peace now.

Thank you!

Carsten wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2009 at 10:02pm:

That's great! Thanks!

Something has been puzzling me with the deselecting of categories though. I noticed this the other day, but didn't want to say anything until I'd checked it on a fresh install.

Anyhow, If I select a category in Admin Center by selecting only the category name, then it's not working. The category and all the boards within it still show in the chatroom. If I select the category and also all of the boards it works okay, but not by selecting the category name only.
I have noticed that if I do just select a category name and then go back to Admin Center, all the boards in that category are selected as they should, but from the first save it doesn't seem to take effect.

Carsten wrote on Sep 30^th, 2009 at 5:07pm:

I'm not too sure what your fix was but, if I select a category name only, and there is a board in that category with the same id, then that category and all the boards within it appear in the chatroom, apart from the board with the same id.

Also, I don't know if this is the way you mean it to work but, when I do select whole categories to not show in the chatroom, the category names are still visible. Should they be? See attached image:

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks Carsten!

All is good now!

If I could make one final suggestion. When selecting a new room from the select drop down, maybe it would be a good idea for the url in the browser address bar to reflect the board/room you are in. The reason being, if I enter the chatroom and then select a different room, if I then view a members profile or go anywhere else, when I hit the browser back button, I'll always end up in the general chatroom rather than the room that I chose to be in.

So rather than the url always being:

http://mysite.com/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=chat 

After selecting a room it would be:

http://mysite.com/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=chat;room=myroom 

It's not at all important, I just thought it might make it that little bit more user friendly. I don't know what your thoughts are on that?

Okay, no worries. It's fine as it is anyway.

Everything's great!

Thanks!