Would like to change the background picture

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

What I really want to do is dynamically change the background picture when you are changing Channels in phpOpenChat.
To help make things more understandable to users, I have renamed the Channels as Rooms, and would therefore like to have different pictures pop up as they navigate between rooms (just to make things easier for the layman using it).
The people using this chat will NOT be very computer savvy, so it would be much easier for them to "see" the change and identify with it.

I found the file 'output.css' can set the background picture with:
>>
.background
{
  /* the FONT color of the DATE in the TABLE CHAT */
  color: #FFF;

  /* the background color of the TABLE CHAT */
  background-color: #000;
  BACKGROUND: url(privateroom.jpg) #000;
>>

And then it appears this routine is involved when you switch between Channels (Rooms) by clicking the drop-down box:

PROGRAM: input.tpl

              <?=$_SESSION->out('CHANNEL')?>:
              <select title="<?=$_SESSION->out('CHOOSE_CHANNEL')?>" class="selectbox" name="channel" onchange="parent.setChannel(this);checkChannel(this);formPost=1;submit()">

The routines "setChannel" and "checkChannel" are in the openchat/js directory.

I am not a JavaScript guru, but thought maybe this could be done pretty easily.   Has anyone tried it?   Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Well six hours of scrubbing through the Internet and Google and eyes bloodshot and I'm still no closer to solving this problem.
Guess it will be an all-nighter!

[Anonymous]

Day Two and still searching.
I wish someone would give me a hand…..

[Anonymous]

Well, I got to hand it to OpenChat.   Its a great program to install but virtually impossible at handling background pictures.