Simple chat mod

For me, this is a very welcome modification. I don't know when having the member menu enabled, became necessary if you wanted to use the simple messenger on your site, but I didn't like it one bit. In my opinion, the member menu just adds more screen clutter to new generation laptops screens, where vertical space is already at a premium. There's nothing on the member menu that your members can't get to from the main menu.... other than the simple messenger window, that is. The majority of today's see more laptop screens are a wide screen format, and websites need to make efficient use of vertical space. I wanted the simple messenger, but I couldn't stand the thought of having the member menu constantly cluttering up the screen for every single member.

This small, but clever mod by AndreyP, allows me to use the simple messenger on my site, without having to clutter up the screen with that huge member menu. This adds an unobtrusive button on the left side of the screen, where you can access the messenger in the same way as you can on the member menu. The button will change color when someone messages you.

If you don't like the look of the button, don't worry.... you can change everything about it in css to match your custom templates. You can make the button text smaller, change colors, make the entire button smaller, give it less opacity so it's less obvious... anything you want to do. The space on the sides of the screen is unused anyway, so this is a great place to put something like this. Boonex probably should have done the entire member menu this way, so that it slides out from the side, but until they do, this is a good solution for those that want the simple messenger, but do not want to use the member menu.

Nice work Andrey!

The member menu is a resource hog, at least in 7.0.3 and under that I have tested it with. Because of this I won't even enable the member menu on most sites. Maybe it is better in 7.0.4+. I haven't had as much time as I would like for 7.0.4 yet...been putting it off for all the 7.0.5 talk I have been waiting for.

So If this will allow chat / simple messenger without the member menu bar 2 thumbs up.

I will check it and test more in my spare time, but it sounds like a much better alternative see more to the standard member menu/simple mesenger.

very good mod. Makes a bif difference. Congratulation and thankyou!

Tried this and it seems to disable the "online" notifier for members online (little yellow bubble on avatar).
Perhaps I installed it wrong?

Anyone else have this issue?

This is an awesome addition andrew. and it is free

awesome modification at free of cost

hey Andrew again great job,

Thanks for this mod.
Site Users love new gadgets and toys. Mods like this one gives your site that extra technological feel because you don't see this often.
Great work
Thank You, Did I mention it was free? WOW
JB

please help it says me this error :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_FUNCTION in /home/******/public_html/modules/boonex/simple_messenger/classes/BxSimpleMessengerConfig.php on line 1

Please help me, want this modification, because the user not look alltime to the member menu.
make all changes correct, i think.
but when try to write message get error box "undefined".
my english is not the best but think i understand the instuctions

This is great mod. I love it :D
But still i have one problem... seems that this mod works only with UNI template and not working with custom template for me. How i can to fixed this, if it is possible.

It appears on the site Ok, but the pop out box is always empty, even though I have friends currently online.

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Thank you Andrew for be see more there!!!

Hi, very nice modification... but i need little help... With my template the color of the text is white... and i cannot read nothing, how i can change the text color to black?

I try to modify this file : modules/boonex/simple_messenger/template/base/css/simple_messenger.css
at the" div.simple_messenger_chat_block div.messages_history div.messages_section div.message_wrapper div.message but nothing change...

Check the picture : http://www.spiridusi.ro/ASpiridusi/simple%20chat.png

Thank see more you

Wooonderful job as always. Thank you Aramis. Your mods are most excellent!! I do have a question, so I'm gonna message you, ok...

Thanks!

Racquel

thx, really good mod

Thanks Andrew, this mod make our site better. Excellent display, much more better than the default chat bar. Thanks!

Awesome this is what I needed!!!! hopefully in the future this can be done through the foot bar, still that doesn't take the awesomeness away from this! :D THANKS A LOT!