Hi Mick,

I would like to offer five recommendations here:

(1) The mouse cursor should change when the user hovers it over the scrolling pane of the MH2 Shout Box.  This signals to the user that the scrolling pane is something that can be clicked to trigger another event.


(2) At the moment, when the MH2 Shout Box is clicked at the front end, the whole webpage has to be reloaded in order to display all the previous shouts.  This can be quite unnecessary and tedious to wait if the webpage has a lot of modules and graphics to load, and especially if another component that is being used has to be abandoned and make space for the list of previous shouts in a new webpage.  In other words, and in the spirit of better web design, the act of showing the list of previous shouts should not be carried out at the expense of all the other elements and contents of the current webpage, and should be considered as just an extra feature or extension of the MH2 Shout Box that can be accommodated as an adjunct that is in temporary focus, and to be floated above the webpage in view.

Therefore, I would strongly suggest that two following choices be made available at the backend configurations to determine what format to use for displaying all the previous shouts without reloading the webpage after the MH2 Shout Box is clicked by the user at the front end:

• a simple pop-up window (without navigation tools, and make this the default)
  a pop-up modal (with or without partial darkening of the background)

(3) The list displaying all the previous shouts should be sortable according to:

• Name
  Date/Time
  Shout

(4) The list displaying all the previous shouts should have page navigation tools when the list is long.  Navigation should be done in AJAX so that page refreshing is not required.


(5) When I set the following date and time formats at the back end as follows:
Date Format: D j M Y
Time Format: g:i a

The formats are correctly shown in the scrolling pane of the MH2 Shout Box as:

Sun 23 Nov 2008 2:00 am

But the formats are rendered awry in the list displaying all the previous shouts as:

Sun 23 Nov 2008&11b15p;2:00 am

As you can see, there is the extra expression &11b15p; being embedded.



I hope that these are helpful.

Thanks.

SoundEagle

Glad I could be of assistance!

It is neither.  The issue is that there is a standard function that is supposed to run after the page loads.  This is what IE7 is bitching about.  This function is a standard one that IE7 has chosen not to fully support.  IE8 does promise to address some of these inconsistencies, so hopefully it will work there! LOL

Hello,
If you dont mind me asking is this a Moo tools problem or a Jquery conflict or somthing like that?

We have experienced this time and time again, here is a posting from Fireboard forums with a similar problem and how to resolve it...

http://www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,38/func,view/id,51739/catid,73/limit,10/limitstart,10/
I have no idea if this will help but it has worked for us in eliminating some Jquery conflicts..

Let me know how it works out...

Cheers

Hi Mick

Thanks for your help.  I've now added my php.ini file to all those directories but unfortunately it's still not working

I think I'll have to get in touch with my host (1and1) to ask them to help.

Thanks again

M

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Edit: Now fixed as my host's instructions didn't mention part of the path I needed to use.  Now to set it up!

Thanks for your  help.

If I find a fix for the IE problem, then yes -- there will be an update published

Hello,

Thanks for the update... Will this be a Shout Box update?

Best Regards

Unfortunately it requires Microsoft to fix it and we all know that they are ready to fix things immediately!  LOL

I took a lot of time trying to figure out how to make it work and not break everything else, my findings were that it would be more damaging to take away that annoyance.

As I am building more products, I am refining the way things operate.  These refinements will make it into the prior products.
I should have my next product out this week, barring any unforeseen events.

Hello,

First off I wanted to say thank you for a great component and module with the Shout Box?

Unfortunately I have noticed errors that appear with IE7 and was wondering what can be done to correct it? I know it is more of an annoyance then anything but would love to have this fixed?

The errors appear on your site too, I have my module configured like yours and it is working great? And of course there are no errors in firefox other then some minor CSS fields?

Any help would be great? Thanks again for all your hard work?

Regards

Sorry my bad!! Early morning pre-coffee is not the time to respond!! LOL

Yes, for the treasury you would change all mh2shoutbox to mh2treasury, you may need to include
? components/com_mh2treasury/include
? components/com_mh2treasury/ipn