pop-up alert

[devans]

Hi Kerphi

Could you tell me if there's a good place to check if there's new messages in the active chat window? roschler asked a similar question here:
http://www.phpfreechat.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=742 (notifyTab not firing)
http://www.phpfreechat.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=726 (Pop up a new window when a new guest arrives?)

I checked the notifyTab function in src/client/pfcgui.js, but this requires two tabs, where the one is inactive. The idea is to pop up a little alert (ala googletalk, etc) if the chat window isn't in focus. I could go down the new guest route, but if you've got a tip to where I can check for updates to the message window, I'd rather test there... :/

p.s. phpfreechat kicks butt, keep up the good work!

[devans]

Hi again

I finally caught on to the obvious, what I was looking for was a few lines up in the notifyWindow function. =)

[devans]

Quick question. If I wanted the msg text, or nick of person posting, could you tell me the var name(s) to pass from the notifyWindow function?

[devans]

okay, I've written something that does what I want. Not very elegant, surely a better way, but it works.

In case anyone else is interested...

changed line 827 in pfcclient to

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this.gui.notifyWindow(sender);

changed notifyWindow function in pfcgui.js to

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notifyWindow: function(sender)
  {
    this.windownotifynb += 1;
    var rx = new RegExp('^\[[0-9]+\](.*)','ig');
    document.title = document.title.replace(rx,'$1');
    document.title = '['+this.windownotifynb+']'+document.title;
    // build popup
   this.alertWindow(sender);
  },

then finally added this function below the notifyWindow function in pfcgui.js

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alertWindow: function(sender)
  {
   // Define vars
   var newwindow = '';
   var url = 'chat.php?who='+sender;
   var popwidth = 160;
   var popheigth = 20;
   var fudgex = 10;
   var fudgey = 100; // move popup up (due to windows taskbar)
   // get screen resolution
   var resx = screen.width;
   var resy = screen.height;
   // Position of popup on screen
   var posx = resx - popwidth - fudgex;
   var posy = resy - popheigth - fudgey;
   
   //alert ( "someone trying to chat with you!" ); // temp test
   
   // open new window
   if(document.getElementById('alertme').checked=='0') { // check if the alertbox is off (on by default)
      // alert windows turned off
   }else{
      if (!newwindow.closed && newwindow.location) {
         newwindow.location.href = url;
      }
      else {
         newwindow=window.open(url,'new_chat','width='+popwidth+',height='+popheigth+',left='+posx+',top='+posy+',screenX='+posx+',screenY='+posy+',scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no');
         if (!newwindow.opener) newwindow.opener = self;
      }
      if (!newwindow.focus()) {newwindow.focus()}
   }   
  },

to give people the option of turning off the popups, I put a little checkbox in the chat page html...

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Allow Alertboxes: <input name="alertme" id="alertme" type="checkbox" checked="1" />

Sorry for the sloppy code, basically self-taught... =)

edit: I should add that the url points at a php file, but you could just as easily make it html