Tonight I totally recoded the entire Members List script. Not many people had used this but eventually down the line, as the system is used on large sites this will be a necessary feature, so I had to fix something that was bothering me. Initially the Members List was one page that listed all of the members on one page which would have gotten very, very, very (you get the idea) long as more and more members signed up.
So I created a paging system which splits all the members up into chunks of 10 and puts each chunk on one page and then you can click a link to navigate further. Perhaps one of the more challenging parts was that it wasn't sorting alphabetically correctly. But a 2 minute google search located the solution. The script was putting all names that begin with a caps'ed letter before lowercased letters. Such as TheMuffinMan was appearing before blueeyedboy. Which made no sense in the scope of the script because regardless of the case, "b" comes before "t" in the alphabet. So I found out the work around.
Now you can view all of the members in managable chunks on multiple pages. Eventually i will bump it up to atleast 25 members per page but right now it's at 10 to show that it will create multiple pages with the links to other pages automatically being generated.
And there is a new option under the Options menu. It is called Message View. Original message view puts the latest messages in the conversation at the top of the IM window. Normal mode is what you'd see in AIM, Yahoo, etc..where the newest IM's are located at the bottom of the message box. However...most browsers would kick the messages box back to the top each time that the window automatically refreshed or after it refreshed by your sending a message. Then you would have to continue scrolling down after each IM you send or it automatically refreshes with a new post. It could be worth giving it a shot to see if the Normal mode would work for you. But chances are you are best off with the default Original Mode.
Also..so far there have been no CPU usage errors today. So i am still looking into them but it seems to be running smoothly this evening.
That's it for now.
Probably won't have an features/functions added tomorrow as I will be gone until later at night so there will be some more testing going on but most likely no actual work.
Members list: Nice, 'cept there aren't even 20 members yet. XP are there? 0.o
Message view: I' ve gotten used to how it is, but some others aren't. But having to scroll down everytime seems like a such a hassle...I'll stick with the easy, simple, lazy way. ^-^
» Silver-dot- on 2006-09-27 10:52:54
Good idea hehe I believe that I had it working one time so that the text box was actually staying down at the bottom where the newest messages were. But I know that this won't happen for a lot of people which is why you can choose in case it doesn't work for you and you have to scroll down every time.
And there are 15 members at this point...but TMS is belng built to hopefully handle thousands =0)
» etheracide on 2006-09-30 09:31:07
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