Shout Box Auto Refresh

[BYuck]

Hello all .... 

This may not be the right place to ask for this, but do any of you know how I can turn my shoutbox into an auto-refreshing one?  

I've noticed in testing that if someone posts, it won't show up until you refresh it, which can be a little annoying.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[MC]

To my knowledge, the Shoutbox already has auto-refresh... I haven't been able to test it much but I seem to remember posts appearing without me having to refresh... Maybe somone who's been able to "play" with it more can confirm?

[Chris]

Jan 2, 2013 9:52:01 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

The shoutbox currently has an auto-refresh already built in.

It is based on how active the shoutbox is to minimize the amount of calls made to the server. When you type a message it starts an auto refresh check. It looks when the last message is and then refreshes or doesn't based on that. it's fairly complex to explain, but essentially if there has been a message in the last 5 minutes it attempts to refresh the shoutbox on it's own. If there isn't then it doesn't bother. If you don't want to type, but still want to start the auto refresh going you can click the little refresh icon. 'Click to Update' it says when hovering. It then goes into 'Auto-Updating' mode. This is the auto refresh. How long the button stays active is directly based on how long since the last message.

So in short, as long as your shoutbox is active it will auto refresh automatically.

Your request already exists. Thank you.

Note: plugins are forbidden to make AJAX calls to Proboards which is basically what the refresh does when it asks Proboards "Is there anything new?"

[BYuck]

thanks for the help!

appreciate it!