Screen Goes Blank

[sbtrules]

First of all ia m new here so hi to all.....

and hats off for the admin.... great job !!

comming to my problem...

i had been using beta4 in arabic when i noticed taht the screen goes blank from time to time...... but when u release beta5 i was thinking that it might be fixed...but ...actually its still there...
certain characters cause this to happen....and speacially when they are in the channel name or nick name..... i didnt check but does the chat maintain the encodings for the channel/nick text ??


hope you shall sort this soon !...i know u did somthing similar for the chinese problem.... so i am quite confident..


Thanks alot in advance...

[phpfreechat]

This blank screen problem occurs only on IE6. It works well on Firefox.

I know that it is a blocking bug but I'm sorry I didn't found yet a solution.
I think it's related to font family but the change I made in lastest 1.0-beta5 didn't fix the problem (or maybe just for chinese characteres).

Currently I'm lost, this is a very hard bug

[phpfreechat]

Today, I passed 3 hours on this bug and I think I fixed the bug !

Try this patch :

Code: Select all

Modified: trunk/src/client/pfcgui.js
===================================================================
--- trunk/src/client/pfcgui.js  2006-09-13 07:09:16 UTC (rev 759)
+++ trunk/src/client/pfcgui.js  2006-09-13 17:58:11 UTC (rev 760)
@@ -256,10 +256,14 @@
    var div_online  = this.getOnlineContentFromTabId(tabid);
    div_content.appendChild(div_chat);
    div_content.appendChild(div_online);
-
+
    $('pfc_channels_list').appendChild(li_title);
    $('pfc_channels_content').appendChild(div_content);

+    // force the height of the chat/online zone in pixel in order fix blank screens on IE6
+    div_chat.style.height   = ($('pfc_channels_content').offsetHeight-1)+'px';
+    div_online.style.height = ($('pfc_channels_content').offsetHeight-1)+'px';
+
    return tabid;
  },


Modified: trunk/themes/default/style.css
===================================================================
--- trunk/themes/default/style.css      2006-09-13 07:09:16 UTC (rev 759)
+++ trunk/themes/default/style.css      2006-09-13 17:58:11 UTC (rev 760)
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
  background-color: #FFF;
  margin-top: 5px;
  height: 300px;
-  font-family: serif; /* needed by IE6 in order to display correctly chinese characteres */
 }
 div.pfc_content {
 }
@@ -90,7 +89,8 @@
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 80%;
-  height: 100%;
+/* WARNING: do not fix height in % because it will display blank screens on IE6 */
+/*  height: 100%;*/
  overflow: auto;
 }

@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@
  padding: 0;
  overflow: auto;
  width: 20%;
-  height: 100%;
+/* WARNING: do not fix height in % because it will display blank screens on IE6 */
+/*  height: 100%;*/
  color: #000; /* colors can be overriden by js nickname colorization */
  background-color: #FFF;
  background-image: url("proxy.php?p=default/images/online-separator.gif");

[gritty]

Kerphi,

I'm also having the same problem with the screen going blank in IE.

I recently reinstalled the latest version of phpfreechta and got it looking the way we like.

WE LOVE THIS CHAT CLIENT!!! But the IE screenblanking problem is so troublesome to so many of our members that we can't use it.

It sounds like you've figured out how to correct the bug, but I don't understand what I should do to implement this fix (I'm not a programmer).

Can you please tell me in a bit more literal/plain English terms how to implement this fix?

Thank you in advance!

[phpfreechat]

if you are not a programmer, it's simplier for you to wait for next 1.0-beta6 release (this weekend I hope.)

[gritty]

Oh dear, I fear I will have a nervous breakdown if I have to reinstall this chatware again! <g> Plus, we really would prefer not to wait.

We'd like to just use the one we have--are you sure you can't help me get this fix installed?

That code you listed above... is that something I can just copy and paste in one of the files? Could you possibly walk me through that?

Pretty please!!!

[gritty]

Has the latest fix been updated yet?

Please, can someone help me get my chatroom fixed?!

Kerphi, are you there?

[phpfreechat]

Yes, I repeat my advice : please wait for next release (the delay is one week) it will fix blank screens.

[gritty]

Hi, Stéphane,

I see that the new release is out and I've downloaded it. I'm very excited!

However, I'm not sure how to install it without messing up the look of my chat room. I spent MANY, MANY hours tediously getting it to look the way we want and I do not want to mess that up.

Can you tell me how to best do this?

[phpfreechat]

did you create a customized theme ? if yes, just keep your theme directory and copy it in the new chat installation.
Take care and keep a backup of your old chat install

[gritty]

No, I didn't. I couldn't ever figure out how to do that and make it work. What I ended up doing is just customizing the default theme.

[phpfreechat]

this is a bit explained here : http://www.phpfreechat.net/customize.en.html
I will write more doc for the final release. As pfc 1.x is still beta, I prefere do not write doc that will change too much before final version.

[gritty]

Okay, I got it installed and I think I got that part figured out.

However, I can not figure out how to change where it says "My Chat." I have changed the title and got the param set up, but it will won't change.

Also, no matter what I do, the color of that text should be white, but it stays black.

This is driving me batty

Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks!

[phpfreechat]

rehash your chat when you change a parameter : http://www.phpfreechat.net/faq.en.html#rehash

[gritty]

Rehash? I don't know what that means.