Hi all,

There is a new chat room available now. The new chat room works off your login name and you must be a member of the board to use the chat room. So once you've logged in to the message board then you'll be able to login to the chat room. It's that simple (hopefully :P )

- See who's in the chat room by clicking on the "Who's in the Chat room?" link at the top right of the page (under the main logo).

- Access the chat room by clicking the "The John Wayne Chat Room" link on the main page of the site.

Give it a try and let us know if you like it!!

Cheers,
Kevin

kevin,

tried to go to chat room but it wouldn't let me in kept telling me to log into the foram, please explain what this means, and it wouldn't reconise me

thanks for your help in this matter
cheers smokey

Oh Kevin what have you done don't like this prefereed the other one i can see better on the original hard to see on new one please bring back the old one.
chance :(

Hey guys,
I can't get into the new chat room for some reason. I've been trying for the last half hour. I see someone is chatting but I can't get in to join.

I"ll try later,
Little Duke

hum... I seem to have no problems on my end. I tested this thing for several days before I added to the site.

Little Duke, have you had any luck getting in?

Chance, I can change the colors on the chat window, if that would help.

And Smokey, try hitting your refresh button once you have the chat window up.

Hi kevin it's a bit strange it'll take time to get used to the new layout.
Can you choose a colour for your type face like the old one.
Chance :stunned:

smokey, did you try to access the chat room with a bookmark, when you weren't signed into the message board? It is my understanding that now only registered members of this message board, who are logged on (not just browsing as a guest), can get into the chat room.

I have another question for Kevin. I was wondering if we have the option of choosing text colors in the chat. That was a helpful feature, to be able to differentiate "speakers."

Just a reminder to everyone, if you don't officially "Quit" the chat, you show up as still in there; just closing the window doesn't exit you from there, you have to click the little red button to do that.

Chester :newyear:

hi kevin and chester

did that clicked the refresh button and got in will i have to do that all the time?
chester i was logged on but logged out then relogged on just in case i was doing it wrong but kevin's one worked just fine

thanks to both of you

cheers smokey

Hi Kevin

Just tried the new chat room my lines came up in red without any prompting from me and as I have only ever been in any chat room less than a handful of times I found it very easy. And with my lack of computer expertise if I can make it work any body can.



Regards

Arthur

ps

The new layout looks very striking.

Arthur,

I think each person sees his or her own posts in red, but I know Kevin will correct me on that if I'm wrong. I liked having each choose a color, because it made it easier to keep track of people if you had more than 2 in the chat. But if that's not an option, that's not a problem. It was a nice touch, but we can live without it.

I'm happy to see that there is a time stamp by each person's entry. That was VERY helpful in the quiz, in allowing appropriate credit when answers were within a few seconds of each other.

Looking forward to chatting with some of you one of these days.

Chester :newyear:

Hi all,


Chance with this system there is no option for changing your font color. I also liked that option but this is something that the developer didn't include. I have requested (to the developer) that this option be included in his new update. We'll see if it makes it.

Smokey, You shouldn't have to refresh the window at the beginning. I think your browser was playing tricks on you. But, please let me know if you keep have to. I know I haven't had to refresh it and I use Internet Explorer 6.0

Also, Your text will be red, all others will be black.

I'm always looking for improvement, and I'll keep looking for a better chat room system. The reason I wanted to use this system was because it uses the members login names. I thought it would be more convenient for everyone.

Thanks,
Kevin :cowboy:

Hi Smokey and friends

I had the same problem accessing the chatroom today as you had when I hit the chatroom link I was displayed with an error message stating 'Robbie you need to log into the forum'. This message made little sense as I was already logged in and and the chatroom recognised this by displaying my name. I clicked on the chatroom link several times with no success but I then found out how to get around this problem log out and then log back in again, this rectifies the problem and access to the chatroom is gained. This is something you may want to look into Kevin.

:agent:

Hi Kevin

I am currently talking to Chance via the chatroom but I have noticed that the speed of it has slowed down from yesterday and it is now only marginally faster than the old one can this problem be corrected.

:agent:

Robbie,

I'll look into the slowness. It maybe slowing down because I have the history set pretty high.

Hi Kevin,
I finally made it on as you can see. I did what you said. I can't however get into the chat room. It comes up and the heading is there but then it freezes.
I'll keep trying.
Little Duke

Hi Kevin,
I still can't get into the chat room. I had just looked at who was in there and you and Chance were. I clicked on the link but again, I could only get the heading and then it freezes.
We'll see LittleDuke

Hum...That's strange. Do you see anything when the new window opens?

I can get into the chat box after that it freezes. The heading is there with John Wayne's picture but then it freezes.
LittleDuke

It sounds like you could possibly have some issues on your end.

What browser version are you using?

Hi Kevin

I'm still being plagued with error messages at random times when I'm attempting to log into the chatroom.

:agent:

Hi Kevin,
I'm using Internet Explorer 5.0. I had it upgraded a year ago if I remember correctly. I can't get the chat room to open all the way. I'm not a wiz at the computer so really I have no clue as to what I need to do.
Thanks,
LittleDuke

LittleDuke,

I think if you upgraded to Internet Explorer 6 that would help, although I'm not 100% sure. These computers tend to do crazy things. Sometimes things work differently for different people.

One way to upgrade your browser is to go under tools>windows update from within your browser

or goto [Only registered and activated users can see links]

You should probably go to the above url every so often to find and install new security patches for your PC.

Hi Kevin,
I run Internet Explorer 5.5 and I went to Windows Update and I can't download 6. It starts at Windows 98 and goes up. I did update security. We want to get a new computer. Looks like I won't be able to get into the chat room until we do that. The computer I have was given to us about 4 years ago,and we work off of Windows 95, so I can't complain. Until we buy a new one I'll communicate through personal messages and topics.
Thanks for your help,
LittleDuke

Hi Kevin

The chatroom has slowed down considerably its even slower than the old one. I think the problem is that there is too big of a backlog from previous conversations.

:agent:

Update:

The chat room has been updated and changed!! We are using a new intergrated chat system that allows members to use the the chat room using their existing login. This seems to be a much better system, with many more features.

So try it out and post in this thread any questions or comments.

To access the new chat room please click on the 'DukeChat' at the top right of the page.



Kevin