Hi, first thanks for this module. I think drupal needs something like this.
I'm not sure if this is already supposed to work well. The friendlist is only updated when refreshing the page. So one also has to refresh the page to see if somebody else than the user that one is currently talking to has send one a message. That's not really practicable. I'm not a coder, so i'm not sure if this is a bug or it's just the way it is implemented yet. Also I thought of other ways a user could be notified of new messages. If the IM blocks are used only on one "chat" page, a user will never see that there are new messages until he goes to that page. Do you think it would be possible to use the PM Growl module to notify users of new IM messages? I think this would be good because notifies would look the same for private messages and chat requests.

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The Friendlist is supposed to refresh itself automatically according to the options in IM Settings. While testing out this error on my new laptop (Ubuntu Karmic Koala, Firefox 3.5.8) I also found that the refresh was not working. It was because the Flash plugin (Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999) I have doesn't work with my configuration. It was causing a javascript error, and thus killed teh javascript that refreshes the FriendList (and new messages too) So I download and installed 10.0 r45 and it fixed the sound problem as well as the refresh problem. see #523068: no sound alert on new IM

I've also trapped the swf error so that it doesn't kill the javascript for anyone else who is having this issue. This fix will be in rev 1.1.2.16

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