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sgreen0
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User Comments in Sidebar - 8/28/2009 11:38:35
Is there an ASP script (or a add-on app) that will allow viewers of a webpage to add a comment to a column on the side of the page? It needs to be live - so that the comments are immediately viewed on the page. This could be like a public chat room that I could load into a column on the right side of the screen...
Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
Stephen
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/28/2009 13:49:56
Have you looked at Snippetmaster ?
It may do what you want. But I don't think it is asp.
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/28/2009 15:55:51
Thanks, treetopsranch.
This isn't really what I had in mind.
What I really need is a real time chat room that I can put in a tabel or frame on my page, so that any updating of the chat doesn't interfere with the rest of the page.
I'd like the viewers to be able to comment on what they are seeing on the rest of the page - videos, documents, photos...
Thanks
Stephen
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/28/2009 16:53:02
Why not try Meebome Chat Widget that is made for sidebars on a page.
http://www.meebome.com/learnmore.html
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sgreen0
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/28/2009 20:55:09
Thanks, swoosh!
That's the idea, I think. The only apparent limitation of Meebo me Chat Widget is that it only chats with the web site owner. We may give it a try. A public chat would suit better, though...
Thanks.
Stephen
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/28/2009 21:03:55
Here is another nice one. Not sure of the features though:
http://www.shoutmix.com/main/index.php
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/29/2009 4:30:33
I was going to suggest something similar to Swoosh (though I didn't have a particular one in mind - it's not something I've personally used). I know most of the major forum softwares have shoutbox plugins, but there'll be standalone scripts as well such as the one Swoosh suggested.
If you know your way around creating a database and displaying data from the database on a web page, you could set up a simple form for visitors to submit messages which would be stored in the database (or even a flat file) and displayed on screen. You'd have the hassle of securing that though and ensuring that "undesirable" messages were weeded out, which may be more trouble than it's worth.
If not a shoutbox, possibly a guestbook script could be utilised to run in a sidebar. Guestbooks often have a "bad words" filter built in which blocks messages containing key words or phrases being displayed, and some have moderation options as well. I'd try googling 'shoutbox' though and see what comes up. It sounds as though it's some kind of shoutbox type solution you need, though you may find a script specifically for feedback comments if you have a rummage around the many script repositories available online. Hotscripts.com is always a good place to try, and has scripts for a wide variety of applications.
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 8/29/2009 11:03:18
Thanks, womble!
We are looking into both suggestions. However, we have found some script suggestions that might allow us to run the chat from our site, rather that link to someone else's. We haven't found anything just right, yet...
Thanks again.
Stephen
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sgreen0
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 9/5/2009 3:17:56
OK. So I created a chat window using VBScript and an Access database.
It's working fine. EXCEPT, I can't keep the focus on the most recent entry at the bottom of the window after the number of lines exceeds the window height. There is a scroll bar, but it just sits there while the screen refreshes, leaving the new line of text hidden. I'd really prefer not to post the most recent message at the top...
Is there a function that can force the focus to the last line of a window?
Anything else that might help?
Thanks so much.
Stephen
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 9/5/2009 4:30:16
It wouldn't do much for the accessibility of the page, making life difficult for anyone not using a visual browser or keyboard navigation (unless, for keyboard navigation purposes you had an appropriate link underneath it to enable keyboard navigation users to return to the top of the page), but the only thing I can think of is to use a bookmark within the page.
You could have a bookmark at, or just after, the point where you want the focus to be, and then put a redirect on the page so that when someone landed on the page or attempted to land on say www.mysite.com, or the page refreshed after someone had entered something in the chat window, the redirect would go to say www.mysite.com#focus which should move the focus to the part of the page where you wanted it to be at.
Hopefully someone might come up with a better/more user friendly method of doing this though.
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 9/5/2009 11:42:07
Thanks, womble.
It's really the chat window that I'd like to affect. The window refreshes every 5 seconds so the most recent comments show up. That works just right. But for some reason the (scrolling) window which includes the chat doesn't scroll down to the most recent entry after a refresh. The user must scroll down in order to see anything new (if there is any).
So something that would cause the scrolling chat window to go to the bottom (after each refresh) is what I'm looking for. I understand that SendKeys would be able to send a keyboard command (End) to achieve this, but I've heard that it is unreliable and has been disabled (?). I'm not sure how to use it, anyway.
Thanks again.
Stephen
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 9/9/2009 15:37:56
As an alternative, automatically apply a hidden timestamp field to each message then you could have your results sorted in descending order, therefore showing the most recent post of the chat at the top. Just a suggestion
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RE: User Comments in Sidebar - 9/9/2009 15:56:24
Thanks, swoosh!
That is our temporary solution until we can find a better one.
Stephen
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