UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Auto refresh & Spilt screen

I am wondering if the 6.4 version of UBB threads is able to auto refresh the postings? (My clients are not too keen on hitting F5 every minute.)

I have found a few posts (on the UBBS site) that suggest this feature but did not find it listed in the "version history" or "features" area.

Can anyone shed some light onto this for me.

Another question if I may: Has anyone created a split screen (using iframes perhaps?) so the user can watch the active posts (which hopefully refresh ever 5 seconds or so) but can still continue writing their posting?

If not, is it technically possible to modify the php code to do this?

I am evaluating whether this software is the best choice for our univeristy and need more information about the software.

Many thanks.

You'll end up using more bandwidth, but if that's not a concern then go for it I guess :-)

In postlist.tmpl...

CHANGE THIS:



TO THIS:



...where X is the number of seconds between refreshes.

Hey Twisty.
Is there a way to do that for the active topics page only. like it does for the whos online page?

I looked into the .tmpl folder but dont see an activetopic.tmpl file.

Hey, Thanks very much. Works like a charm.

I also added it to the showflat.tmpl and showthreaded.tmpl files so that new posts also get refreshed automatically.

Yes, the bandwidth will be reduced but we will only have maybe 20 user at one time for a particular session so we can live with it.

Many thanks!

[]DrChaos said:
Hey Twisty.
Is there a way to do that for the active topics page only. like it does for the whos online page?

I looked into the .tmpl folder but dont see an activetopic.tmpl file. [/]

I'm using an older threads version which doesn't include that feature, so sorry, I'm not able to assist you on that one.

Maybe someone else will know.

EDIT: I just had a look at the source on this site and it uses dosearch.php to generate the page. Thus, try adding that change into dosearch.tmpl and see how it works.

The only 'issue' is that it will also auto-refresh normal search results as well, but that shouldn't really matter because most people wouldn't leave that page sitting there for any length of time anyway.

It probably won't matter if the refresh time is set to something reasonable like 1-5 minutes.

Ill try it. I was thinking something liek 5 minutes would be a good number.