Difference between revisions of "Web Chat"

Revision as of 17:23, 8 June 2009

About

The web chat is a way to connect to the server and talk to your team mates and anyone else online without having to download anything, ideal for slow moments at school or work, or when you don't want to have to login to the real game. It can be found here: http://www.starsonata.com/webchat/

Features

• Chat to all channels with a similar look to the game client
• Team List so you can see who's online (and with an easy double click to PM team mate).
• Easy to click links to PM anyone who chats
• Up/Down arrow chat input history for quickly putting out the same trade message or repeating a statement.

Current Limitations

• Some / commands do not work as they are processed client side
• Cannot log off without having to refresh or close
• Cannot see what you're highlighting in the white font tabs

Upcoming Work

• Make it so the highlight color is something other then black
• Logoff button
• Sound when receive PM in unfocused tab
• Make it so the input bar has focus if you press any key, making it so you don't have to click every time to chat after switching tabs or selecting text.
• Different text sizes for the chats.
• Time of last received message in each channel, to know if it's worth answering.

Future Work

• Make all links click-able
• Make tabs have fixed width so they don't twitch when an unread message comes in or when you focus

Player Suggestions

(Please only edit this part, and I will move them up into the other lists as I see fit)

• You've made it so that new messages in a nonfocused chat will show up as a number, e.g. All(9), this sometimes makes the other chat tabs "bounce" as the all tab is enlarged to make room. Could you make it maintain the same size?

• Admin blue text is not shown in the webchat

• Maybe make the player name a slightly different colour then the player message?

Player Spotted Bugs

• Commodities Decay