Shout box problems

Hangin' Around Joined: May 15, 2008 Posts: 27

Hey All

One of my admins changed the placement of some of the boxes on the front page. Now in doing that our shout box onlonger works on the front page, but it works on every other page example forums and admin panel. It just dosen't work work on the front page, any idea's???? Oh one other thing it will work in the center and on the right, it just doesn't work on the left hand side on the front page.. if you need to see it here's the website

http://www.theagency-hq.com

Thanks

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:52 pm

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registered · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:48 am

Looks like it is working now. I would guess that he put it below another block that was broken and it messed up the HTML for everything below it.

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:22 pm

Hello no it still doesn't work any thoughts?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:25 pm

It looks like it is working to me. There are messages scrolling, but I can't test it myself because it is locked to guests.

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:42 pm

It is working for me on both IE7 and Firefox. However I am looking at it just as a guest. Perhaps members are seeing another block that is breaking it. Try turning off blocks one by one until you can narrow it down to one block.

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:51 pm

I'll try that and I notices the guest could see it scrolling too, I let you know thanks

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:47 am

Ok so I deactivated the live chat box and the shout box is now working on the front page : ) Thanks for all the help folks it's good to know you can post on a site and get help!!

Cheers

Worker Joined: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 236

Maybe it is this problem described in install.txt for Shoutbox:

Cool

JAVASCRIPT:
-It is a known fact that, if two or more javascript apps use window.onload=, that one or more will fail.
-I have provided an area within the shoutbox.js file at the top to resolve this.
-Open all your other blocks and modules that use window.onload= in KATE or wordpad and write down all the onload events. Watch CAPS!
-NOTE: window.onload=WorldClock will become WorldClock();
-Place a // in front of all those window.onload events, save, and reupload. This stops them from running.
-Example: // window.onload=WorldClock
-Open shoutbox.js
-At the top youll see:
function allonloads() {
populate();