Known Bugs

The following article describes some bugs, past and present, in Prillian that I already know about. For some of these, fixes have been provided or are in the works. Some will simply not be fixed.


Missing Smilies
If you have modified your board so that your smilies are outside of your forum's directory structure, they won't show up in Prillian. To fix this, find and remove the following line in im_read.php and im_send.php. If that doesn't work, try replacing {S_SMILEY_BASEDIR} in prillian/posting_body.tpl
with the path to your smilies.

Code:

Enhanced Admin User Lookup
If you have installed the Enhanced Admin User Lookup modification, a couple of pages added to the Administration Panel by Prillian 0.6.0 and earlier may appear without some text and the forms on those pages may not work. Enhanced Admin User Lookup messes up any page that requires you to look up a user's information unless that modification is also applied to those pages. That is what is happening in the case of this bug. If you take a look in the custom directory or those Prillian releases, you'll find a file called lookup.txt that explains the situation and how you can fix this bug. Prillian 0.7.0 and later do not have this bug.


Buddy/Ignore Compatiblity
The buddy and ignore features of Prillian are generally not compatible with other buddy list or ignore list modifications. There were so many buddy lists out when I started Prillian's that I decided trying for compatibility was a lost cause and created my own format. The only buddy or ignore modifications Prillian is likely to be compatible with are ones I write, like Contact List.


Private Message Ignoring
Normally, if someone on your ignore list tries to send you an instant message, Prillian won't let them. However, if you have the option to receive new private messages through Prillian turned on, they won't be stopped from sending you a private message. This can be fixed by installing my expanded Contact List modification, available separately from Prillian.


Users Never Appearing as Online
If a user's refresh rate is set to a higher number than the Prillian session length,
the user may never appear to be online when using the messenger. This is an
unconfirmed/untested bug - if anyone can confirm it, please let me know so I can
fix it.


Not Receiving Messages
Some people have experienced cases where users do not receive messages sent to them. These cases are known to be caused by the following bugs:

• Prior to version 0.6.0 Beta, there was an issue with the override user preferences setting. This issue would prevent the recording of the number of new, unread, and read instant messages. Since the numbers were not recorded, they were always zero in the database. Prillian would only check for messages if the number of new or unread messages was not zero. I think you see the problem. This bug was fixed in version 0.6.0 Beta by changes to the override setting and how Prillian checked for messages.
• If the IM Client tries to reload or refresh before it completely loads, messages may be marked as read without being seen by the user. This cannot be fixed except by ensuring that the reload/refresh doesn't happen before the Client loads fully. Make sure the automatic refresh rate is not set to a very low number. When both the JavaScript and Meta tag refresh methods are used, the JavaScript refresh is automatically staggered by 15 seconds to help. If a user does miss a message and automatic deletion of read messages is turned off (Prillian 0.6.0 and later only), the user should be able to see the message in their Message Log and read it from there.

Messed up Preferences Display
The Sound tab of the preferences editor doesn't hide correctly when you click on another tab in Internet Explorer 5. This is a browser specific CSS issue.


Window Does not Load
Mozilla Firefox/Firebird 0.7 sometimes has problems loading the IM Client; the problem can be fixed by restarting the browser and making sure not to close the IM Client window before it has fully loaded. I'm pretty sure the problems are caused by certain settings in the Tabbrowser extension. This bug may or may not be present when dealing with more recent versions of Firefox/Firebird and/or Tabbrowser.


Network Messaging
The following "bugs" are all caused by Network Messaging. Hopefully, many of
these will be fixed in the next few releases of Prillian.

• Off-site users not in your buddy list may be listed in the Buddies Online list (which is displayed when you choose to list only buddies in the forums or on IM in your preferences). This happens because the buddy system currently does not work across sites.
• When sending a message to another site, it is not added to the total number of messages the user has sent (total_sent in phpbb_im_prefs). Also, the message cannot be saved when sending it. These are caused by not having a means by which the successful receiving of the message can be confirmed.
• The PM link (if used - it's in the Wide Mode client in the default templates) will be broken for off-site users. You can't send PMs across sites at this time. The PM link will only be seen if a user chooses to list the off-site users alongside the on-site users.

Mozilla Firefox and Single Window Mode
In Mozilla Firefox 1.0, activating the "Force links that open new windows to open in:" settings in the Tools > Options > Advanced menu will cause all popup windows to open in full-sized tabs. This is a browser behavior that cannot be fixed by Prillian. These Firefox options are hidden by default, so if you encounter this problem you are most likely aware of how to deal with it.