04-23-2019
Update:
I wanted to add to the status post above.
A few long time team members (and very strong contributors) are not happy with me and have become inactive recently. The reason for this "unhappiness", in my view, is the fact that trying to manage difficult issues like retooling and remodeling a site like this requires more than just communicating via text messaging. The team members I talk with on the phone (by voice) on a regular basis and I do not have any misunderstandings. Misunderstandings often arise when people only want to communicate by messaging. Ultimately I have to make the changes the site needs. We cannot continue as "rusty, legacy forum". When we complete building out the new Live Chat and other new systems, I plan to disable the legacy infraction system forever.
Recently I bought a condenser mic so I could talk to people while working (taking a much need break from coding) and have been trying to talk to people by Skype, What's App or Line (by voice) more so there are less misunderstandings. Ravinder and I talk on the phone at least once a month and by chat often.
Recently one of our most beloved long time contributors left the site, who was someone I dearly loved, because I typed something like " we need to bring in new moderators and not only have the "old guard" moderators" , which I thought at the time was a kind of endearing term, since I'm also getting as old as dirt myself and like to make fun of the fact we are all getting older and need to be more accommodating and responsive to the needs of the younger generation(s).
If we had of been talking on the phone, everyone would have heard my voice and laughed, but instead, text messaging caused people to misunderstand each other and get emotional. Text messaging does not work. The leadership team must be willing and happy to talk on the phone, and often. Later this year, I may disable the current private messaging system and use a variation of the new chat features I'm building now.
This is the problem when we are making big changes. Text messaging. I am really getting disappointed to see how people are so set on living in a "text only" world. Text is cool; but we also need voice communications.
Moving forward, I want to build a closer community of forum leaders This means we will seek new team members who are willing to talk on the phone one-on-one or in small groups (because the time zone differences are too huge to conference all at once), and who will work with users in Live Chat (or something similar as we evolve) and who fully support our changes as we modernize the forums.
Today, in Live Chat a new member told me we had the best forum on the net and he loved the "dark mode" and our Live Chat support. That same user told me he had never had any site respond to him like we did today using the new Live Chat area.
This is our future.
Responsive, mobile savvy, new member focused.
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chatwidget
chatwidget(n) Composite widget for chat applications chatwidget(n)
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NAME
chatwidget - Provides a multi-paned view suitable for display of chat room or irc channel information
SYNOPSIS
package require Tk 8.5
package require chatwidget ?1.0.0?
::chatwidget::chatwidget path ?options?
$widget topic command args
$widget name nick args
$widget message text args
$widget hook command args
$widget names args
$widget entry args
$widget chat args
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DESCRIPTION
This is a composite widget designed to simplify the construction of chat applications. The widget contains display areas for chat messages,
user names and topic and an entry area. It automatically handles colourization of messages per nick and manages nick completion. A system
of hooks permit the application author to adjust display features. The main chat display area may be split for use displaying history or
for searching.
The widget is made up of a number of text widget and panedwindow widgets so that the size of each part of the display may be adjusted by
the user. All the text widgets may be accessed via widget passthrough commands if fine adjustment is required. The topic and names sections
can also be hidden if desired.
COMMANDS
::chatwidget::chatwidget path ?options?
Create a new chatwidget using the Tk window id path. Any options provided are currently passed directly to the main chat text wid-
get.
WIDGET COMMANDS
$widget topic command args
The chat widget can display a topic string, for instance the topic or name given to a multi-user chatroom or irc channel.
show Enable display of the topic.
hide Disable display of the topic
set topic
Set the topic text to topic.
$widget name nick args
Control the names and tags associated with names.
list ?-full?
Returns a list of all the user names from the names view. If ?-full? is given then the list returned is a list of lists where
each sublist is made up of the nick followed by any options that have been set on this nick entry. This may be used to exam-
ine any application specific options that may be applied to a nick when using the add command.
add nick ?options?
delete nick
$widget message text args
Add messages to the display. options are -nick, -time, -type, -mark -tags
$widget hook command args
Manage hooks. add (message, post names_group, names_nick, chatstate), remove, run
$widget names args
Passthrough to the name display text widget. See the text widget manual for all available commands. The chatwidget provides two
additional commands show and hide which are used to control the display of this element in the widget.
$widget entry args
Passthrough to the entry text widget. See the text widget manual for all available commands.
$widget chat args
Passthrough to the chat text widget. See the text widget manual for all available commands.
EXAMPLE
chatwidget::chatwidget .chat
proc speak {w msg} {$w message $msg -nick user}
pack .chat -side top -fill both -expand 1
A more extensive example is available by examining the code for the picoirc program in the tclapps repository which ties the tcllib picoirc
package to this chatwidget package to create a simple irc client.
SEE ALSO
text(n)
KEYWORDS
chat, chatwidget, composite widget, irc, mega-widget, widget
chatwidget 1.0.0 chatwidget(n)