Sorry, I will keep that in mind.

By the way, ignore the thing about link's not working. I went through the code and figured out why.

• it's either [ URL ] http://www.dotnetnuke.com [ /URL ] or [ URL=http://www.dotnetnuke.com ] DotNetNuke.Com [ /URL ]

I had a quick fix solution for the announcement of users leaving, and chat history, etc.

• To get the chat history, I made it so the chat window would pop-up in a new frame[window].
  • To get that working, I added the chat module to a hidden page and used the [print module] link, to open up that module minus the rest of the site.

• To announce that the user has left I added a 'Close' button to the Chat Form, and a corresponding API Call in the [DnnChat.vb] file to announce a user has left.

  • 'The Client Javascript/API to send the message that the user has left..
    Dim strExitChat As String = DotNetNuke.UI.Utilities.ClientAPI.GetCallbackEventReference(Me, _
                                                String.Format("getMessageXML('{0}', MSG_TYPE_LEAVE)", "[" & GetSenderName() & " left the chat.]"), _
                                                "receiveChatMessage", _
                                                strContext, _
                                                "receiveChatMessageError") & "window.opener='x';window.close();"
  •             'Create the close button
                Dim btnClose As Button = New Button
                btnClose.UseSubmitBehavior = False
                btnClose.Text = "Close"
                btnClose.Enabled = True
                btnClose.Attributes("onClick") = strExitChat

• To fix the '+' not showing up, I added the following code in the [DnnChat.js] file.
  • function replacePlus(s){
         var tempS;
         tempS = s.replace(/\+/gi,'+'); 
         return tempS;   
    }
  • (Quick and easy way to do it, although I'm sure theres a better way to do that.)

Hope that was helpful for some people.