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(Message started by: IdahoEv on Mar 21st, 2007, 1:22pm)
Title: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by IdahoEv on Mar 21st, 2007, 1:22pm
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: http://idahoev.com/arimaa/images/chatbug_safari.png

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.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by IdahoEv on Mar 21st, 2007, 1:22pm
Heh - on the upside, I just confirmed that the less-than character does not crash the chat client anymore!
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 21st, 2007, 9:56pm
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.  :P  We'll get to see it in action soon enough.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by NIC1138 on Mar 22nd, 2007, 12:00am

on 03/21/07 at 21:56:54, Fritzlein wrote:
No more searching for an unused color and discovering that only hot pink remains.

Now it necessarily ascribes hot-barbie-shock-pink to the first, or second to connect? :)
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by IdahoEv on Mar 22nd, 2007, 5:52pm
Ah, all becomes clear.   Thanks.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 22nd, 2007, 7:05pm

on 03/22/07 at 00:00:12, NIC1138 wrote:
Now it necessarily ascribes hot-barbie-shock-pink to the first, or second to connect? :)

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.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by NIC1138 on Mar 22nd, 2007, 10:54pm
Not working for me... I use Linux, with firefox 1.5.0.7 (quite old, I know! :D ).  I'll try with 2.0 later
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by woh on Mar 24th, 2007, 2:42am
I am unable to connect to the new chat.
Status: connecting...
I am using IE6 on XP.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by DorianGaray on Mar 24th, 2007, 5:14pm
I was perfectly satisfied with the old one. Why did we have to change?
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by Janzert on Mar 27th, 2007, 11:36pm
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
Line 327


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.

Janzert
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by omar on Mar 27th, 2007, 11:55pm

on 03/24/07 at 17:14:57, DorianGaray wrote:
I was perfectly satisfied with the old one. Why did we have to change?


The chat client is sort of a testbed for the Javascript game client.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by omar on Mar 27th, 2007, 11:59pm

on 03/27/07 at 23:36:05, 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
Line 327


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.

Janzert


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.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by Janzert on Mar 28th, 2007, 12:31pm
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


after the two seconds it changes to:


Code:
status: connecting ...


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.

Janzert
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by omar on Mar 28th, 2007, 5:33pm
Thanks for this info. I've added a crossdomain.xml file. Can you see if that makes it better.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by Janzert on Mar 28th, 2007, 8:46pm
Yay, seems to be working or at least it echoes my input back to me.

Thanks for the effort Omar.

Janzert
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by omar on Mar 29th, 2007, 12:52am
Awsome.

I would really like to get as many people to test the chat client out as possible because if this works for everyone then I will know that the JavaScript game client will also work.

I am expecting that the chat client will probably not work for people behind a firewall. But aside from that, I would really like to know if anybody is experiencing any other problems.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by nbarriga on Mar 30th, 2007, 7:15am
It doesn't work for me(Opera 9.20 Beta 1). Although I'm behind a firewall, so I just reply to confirm your assumption that it doesn't work for people behind a firewall.

http://www.eso.org/~nbarriga/snapshot7b.png

It just stays like that, doesn't do anything.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by IdahoEv on Mar 30th, 2007, 6:02pm
I can connect in firefox/mac now, which is good.

However, the other night it crashed and/or kicked me and seanick out while we were chatting.   There was no particular indication of the source of the trouble, it just reported that we had both left the room.    It reported "IdahoEv has left" while I was typing something, and did not accept further input from me, though I was still there to see the message that I had left.  ;-)   A moment later it reported that seanick had left.  We finished our chat back in the game client.

Screenshot below.

http://idahoev.com/arimaa/images/chatroom_logout.png
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by NIC1138 on Mar 31st, 2007, 6:20pm
Still not working in my poor linux with Firefox/1.5.0 and java version "1.5.0_05".  The whole browser crashes!... :o  I am behind a NAT...  :(
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 31st, 2007, 8:56pm
At the moment (Mar 31st, 2007, 8:54pm central time) I can't use the chat either.  It says 'stats:connected', but it doesn't show me as logged in and I can't send any messages.
Title: Re: Trouble with the chatroom?
Post by RonWeasley on Apr 2nd, 2007, 11:33am
I tried for the first time today from Fedora Core 5 (Firefox on linux) behind a firewall.  I see the windows for a second or two and then the browser crashes and Pansy Parkinson jumps like she's been pinched in the behind.  I tried this many times.


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