How to add an Advert to the Chatwindow?

Spark Spark Dev
1

Hi,

I’m looking for a plugin/solution for having a little advert on the bottom of the chatwindow. Is there any solution available or do I have to modify it myself (and how)?

2

There is currently no solution for this. this would make a great addition to the community plugins if you would like to create and distribute it.

3

Hi psypsy,

Just to add slightly to what mtstravel already wrote, adding items to the bottom of the ChatRoom (chatwindow) can be done through a sparkplug and only requires a few lines of code. As an example the following code:

SparkManager.getChatManager().addChatRoomListener(new ChatRoomListenerAdapter() {
   public void chatRoomOpened(final ChatRoom room) {
      room.getBottomPanel().add(new JLabel("Shop @ B and L"), new GridBagConstraints(0, 5, 1, 1, 1.0, 1.0, GridBagConstraints.CENTER, GridBagConstraints.BOTH, new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0), 0, 0));
   }
});

Was used to produce the attached screen shoot.

Hope that helps,

Ryan

4

I want to thank you first. Looks really good but couldn’t it be a problem having a removeable plugin? Anyone can remove the Plugin and have an ad-free spark again - or did I get it wrong?

Edit: uh, well, adding it hardcoded could be an anwer, trying to figure it out

5

Yes, they could delete the plugin if they wanted or had permission to do so. They could also install a different client for that matter.

You could alter the Spark source directly, just be sure to adhere to the GNU Lesser Public License that it is released under.

Cheers,

Ryan