[REL] PA Chat

Discussion in 'Released Mods' started by cola_colin, January 29, 2015.

  1. cwarner7264

    cwarner7264 Moderator Alumni

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    Yeah squishy, for palobby.com ping @mikeyh :)
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  2. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    @mikeyh

    It seeks PA lobby runs.. sort of on the default android browser, though it's really jumbled, and even more so on android Google chrome.

    @cola_colin thanks for the heads up, I just assumed the lobby would have fixed the whole issue with way too much bandwidth. Though I do have a 10 gig plan, not sure how long that'd last. If it were possible to throw away everything but the sign in and the global chat room, that'd be awesome. :)
  3. cwarner7264

    cwarner7264 Moderator Alumni

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    Standalone Android app for PA chat - @cola_colin pls

    (I'm joking, I'm fully aware of how much time something like that would require)
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  4. mikeyh

    mikeyh Post Master General

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    Even with max compression the https://palobby.com/ server browser still uses around 0.6MB to 5MB per minute depending on how many games are in the feed. eg right now it's around 1.5MB per minute or 0.2 Mbit/sec

    I'll make chat available on a separate page when I have time.
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  5. elodea

    elodea Post Master General

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    small thing i noticed, dont know if worth fixing.

    if you change your name, the chat history doesn't show your messages in white.
  6. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    known, won't fix

    EDIT: actually... let's not say never
    Last edited: February 4, 2015
  7. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    updated PA Chat. Changelog, also available in the main post:


    Thanks to @Sekuraz for his work on the admin features!

    - lots of new admin functions. Check /help on how to moderate channels. Channel owners are orange, channel admins are blue. owners > admins ;)
    - kick, mute and unmute are also available via the right click context menu
    - muted users are shown dark grey and cannot write anything in a given channel.
    - the ranked badge should now be much more reliable
    - messages that mention your name case insensitive have a red background
    - if you get a message mentioning your name while the chatwindow is minimized it will turn red instead of just green
    - tab autocomplete of names improved: now is case insensitive and can match with inner parts oof the string. So writing usern<tab> will autocomplete to [CLAN]UserName
    - show the number of people currently in the channel next to the channelname
    - you can now resize chats by dragging the right or left border
    - /alignleft and /alignright change the alignment of the chatwindow
    - stole the css improvements from palobby.com for your own name and the display of the time
    - autoscroll fix @masterdigital @jorgenpt in common.js there is a knockout handler for "autoscroll". It is rather hacky and fails on unusually large lines, so basically whenever somebody writes more than a 2 line long chattext. This happens not only in global chats, but also in private messages. This version of the handler fixes that issue and works without making guesses:
    Code:
        /**
        * scrolls to the bottom if the scrollable view was at the bottom before the value changed
        */
        ko.bindingHandlers.autoscroll = {
                init: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, viewModel, bindingContext) {
                    // right before the value changes, check if the parent of the element was scrolled to the bottom
                    var wasAtBottom = false;
                    valueAccessor().subscribe(function() {
                        if (!element || !element.parentNode)
                            return;
                        var p = element.parentNode;
                        wasAtBottom = p.scrollHeight - p.scrollTop === p.clientHeight;
                    }, null, "beforeChange");
                   
                    // right after the value changed, if the parent of the element was scrolled to the bottom, scroll it to the bottom again
                    valueAccessor().subscribe(function (value) {
                        if (!element || !element.parentNode)
                            return;
                        if (wasAtBottom) {
                            element.scrollIntoView(true);
                        }
                    });
                }
            };
    
    - removed a bug that caused a massive message spam when using the chat invite function on users in a chatroom. This was also the cause of those chatwindows becoming uncloseable.
    - added command /tryfixfriends This will attempt to repopulate your friendlist from xmpp. Try to use this if your friendlist is suddenly empty. This is not a real fix to the problem, I don't know what the problem is. After using the command you may need to restart PA to see the full effects, not sure. It helped me at least...
    - removed cpu intense animations in the background of the main menu. No more cpu wasting just to stay in the main menu while chatting
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  8. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Also now that admins can do their work even in the ingame chat I am looking for a few more of them. Especially from the AUS and US timezones. Anyone feels like it?
  9. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    So why is this not on PAMM already? Are you really going to make me pull the GitHub repository every time there is an update? :)
  10. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Distribution so far happens via PA Stats. And since I am lazy there is no other version.
  11. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    Ah, that explains why so many people seem to have it.

    (Bundling, eh? Didn't Microsoft get sued for that a long while ago? ;))
  12. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Yeah all the other developers of global chats will totally sue me.
  13. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    I'd be up for it, especially once (if ever) it works on mobile.
  14. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    I won't put in any work for mobile devices, I am making a PA UI mod ;)
    Maybe palobby.com might support them. No idea how the support is right now.
  15. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    No no, the creator of PA lobby said he'd work on a chat only varient in the future.
  16. mikeyh

    mikeyh Post Master General

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    Basic chat for Google Chrome without the server browser and it's bandwidth requirements: https://palobby.com/chat/

    Will add more functionality when I have time.
  17. Mogzai

    Mogzai New Member

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    I'd be up for it if you'd consider me.
  18. Bsport

    Bsport Well-Known Member

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    Just see this post in the big game thats coming up, and i have a question instead of derailing that thread i brought it here, when in pachat does it tag a player if they are in PTE?
  19. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    no that is not considerd at all. I guess some kind of tooltip showing "online in stable/PTE/PALOBBY" would be cool for the future. But wont happen before friday.
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  20. tomofleeds

    tomofleeds New Member

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    Accidentally closed the chat, how do I get it back? Seen the join chatroom bit but wasn't sure exactly what to type.

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