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IdahoEv
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Trouble with the chatroom?
« on: Mar 21st, 2007, 1:22pm » |
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Is anyone else having trouble with the chatroom? I can't connect to it with firefox, and when I do connect to it with another browser I get a fairly plain white window; the graphics and colors are all missing and the sounds have changed.
(Fritz - this is why I didn't notice you writing to me last night; the chat was behind another window and I didn't recognize the sounds so I didn't realize you were typing to me.)
This is what I'm seeing when I connect: 
I checked on my PC just in case it was a problem with my mac. Same issues; I can connect there but I get the all-white chatroom.
If this is just a new chat client that's been installed, that's cool, I'm just checking. Though I would like to get it working in firefox.
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IdahoEv
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 21st, 2007, 1:22pm » |
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Heh - on the upside, I just confirmed that the less-than character does not crash the chat client anymore!
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 21st, 2007, 9:56pm » |
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I am able to connect to chat just fine from Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP.
The white background you see is Omar's home-grown chat client. When he moved the gameroom to a new server, he decided to ditch the old chat client and substitute his own. The advantages include:
* "<" doesn't crash it, as you noted
* Automatic unique color assignment up to twenty people. No more searching for an unused color and discovering that only hot pink remains.
* Chat identities tied to gameroom logins. No more PMertens impersonations.
* Correct reporting in the gameroom of the number of people in chat, instead of underreporting.
* Experimenting with the design has given Omar a basis for replacing the Flash client with a mostly-Javascript client, when he gets around to it.
Sorry we didn't get to test it out last night, IdahoEv. I didn't hear you join. Or rather, I did hear you join, but the noise was unfamiliar, so I managed to ignore it and keep doing what I had been doing.  We'll get to see it in action soon enough.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #3 on: Mar 22nd, 2007, 12:00am » |
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on Mar 21st, 2007, 9:56pm, Fritzlein wrote:No more searching for an unused color and discovering that only hot pink remains.
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Now it necessarily ascribes hot-barbie-shock-pink to the first, or second to connect? 
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 22nd, 2007, 5:52pm » |
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Ah, all becomes clear. Thanks.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #5 on: Mar 22nd, 2007, 7:05pm » |
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on Mar 22nd, 2007, 12:00am, NIC1138 wrote:| Now it necessarily ascribes hot-barbie-shock-pink to the first, or second to connect? |
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Hmm... I guess it could be considered a bug that if you don't like your color, there is nothing you can do to change it.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #6 on: Mar 22nd, 2007, 10:54pm » |
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Not working for me... I use Linux, with firefox 1.5.0.7 (quite old, I know!  ). I'll try with 2.0 later
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #7 on: Mar 24th, 2007, 2:42am » |
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I am unable to connect to the new chat.
Status: connecting...
I am using IE6 on XP.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 24th, 2007, 5:14pm » |
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I was perfectly satisfied with the old one. Why did we have to change?
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #9 on: Mar 27th, 2007, 11:36pm » |
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In case it helps any I can't connect in firefox 2.0.0.3 on XP and get the following error in firebug.
Code:document.f has no properties
http://www.arimaa.com/arimaa/dynpred2/chat.cgi?gid=1
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Edit: hmm, and maybe those errors are unrelated or a fluke because when I went back to try and look at it closer I couldn't get them to occur again, but still couldn't connect.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #10 on: Mar 27th, 2007, 11:55pm » |
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on Mar 24th, 2007, 5:14pm, DorianGaray wrote:| I was perfectly satisfied with the old one. Why did we have to change? |
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The chat client is sort of a testbed for the Javascript game client.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #11 on: Mar 27th, 2007, 11:59pm » |
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on Mar 27th, 2007, 11:36pm, Janzert wrote:In case it helps any I can't connect in firefox 2.0.0.3 on XP and get the following error in firebug.
Code:document.f has no properties
http://www.arimaa.com/arimaa/dynpred2/chat.cgi?gid=1
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Edit: hmm, and maybe those errors are unrelated or a fluke because when I went back to try and look at it closer I couldn't get them to occur again, but still couldn't connect.
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It's kind of hard to debug when I can't recreate the problem. But I made some changes. Can you try it again and let me know through the Contact page if it worked any better. Thanks.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #12 on: Mar 28th, 2007, 12:31pm » |
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It's still seems to do the same thing, although I haven't seen the error I posted above again.
After opening the chat window it almost immediately comes up with the status line:
Code:| status: connect failed; will try again in 2 seconds |
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after the two seconds it changes to:
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And then stays that way indefinetely.
I think it may come up with the connecting line for an instant before the connect failed but it's so fast that I can't tell for sure.
One thing I just found that looks suspicious is the last network request it seems to be making is for http://arimaa.com/crossdomain.xml which returns a 404 error.
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #13 on: Mar 28th, 2007, 5:33pm » |
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Thanks for this info. I've added a crossdomain.xml file. Can you see if that makes it better.
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Janzert
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Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
« Reply #14 on: Mar 28th, 2007, 8:46pm » |
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Yay, seems to be working or at least it echoes my input back to me.
Thanks for the effort Omar.
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