CyberChat FAQ
Basic Information
- How Do I Get in?
- A separate login/registration is required for the chat software. Sowwy. If you have already registered with the chat software, log in by entering your username and password. Then select which chat room you would like to enter and press the Chat button.
- How Do I Register?
- From the Chat Login Page, choose the registration option. A small pop-up window will appear. Create a username and a password for yourself by typing it into the appropriate boxes. The username you choose is the name that will be automatically displayed in the chat room. It cannot contain spaces, commas or backslashes (\). Next, enter your first name, last name, and your email address. In order to register to chat, all of this information must be provided. The gender information is optional. If you wish to allow your email address to be viewed by other participants, please check the box next to "show e-mail in public information". If you do not want your e-mail address to be viewable, leave the box unchecked. Finally, click the Register button.
- What is the User List?
- A list of all users currently in chat, sorted by what room they're in. An icon indicating gender is displayed next to each user (clicking on it will launch the whois popup for this user). Administrators and moderators are italicized.
- How Do I Get Help?
- Once inside a chat room, you can lauch a help popup by clicking on the image that sits just before the message box. You can also type the "/help" or "/?" commands in the message box.
- How Do I Send a Message?
- Type your text into the box in the lower left corner and then press the Enter/Return key to send it. Messages from all users scroll in the chat window. You may change the color of the text of your messages by choosing a new color from the list of choices to the right of the text box.
- How Do I Send a Private Message?
- To send a private message to another user currently in your chat room, type the command "/msg username messagetext" or "/to username messagetext" without quotes. For example, where Jack is the username: /msg Jack Hi there, how are you? The message will appear to Jack and yourself, but no other users will see the message.
- How Do I Do An Action?
- Use the command "/me action" without quotes. For example: If Jack sends the message "/me is smoking a cigarette" the message frame will shown "* Jack is smoking a cigarette".
- How Do I See a User's Profile?
- To see public information about another user, type the command "/whois username" without quotes. For Example: /whois Jack where 'Jack' is the username. This command will create a separate pop-up window that will display the publically available information about that user.
- How Do I Leave?
- Enter the one of the following commands into your text box: /exit /bye /quit These commands may be completed with a message to be sent before you leave the chat room. For example: /quit CU soon! will sent the message "CU soon!" in the main frame then log you out.
Changing Rooms
- How Do I Change Rooms?
- The list to the right of the screen provides a list of chat rooms and the users who are currently in that room. To leave the room you are in and move into one of those rooms, simply click once on the name of that room. Empty rooms do not appear on this list.
- How Do I Create a Room?
- All registered users can create rooms. To create a room, type /go #roomname. Room names cannot contain comma or backslash (\). Note that CyberCon Vendors will often have their own rooms to chat with you. Look for the Company Name as the name of the Chat room, sans spaces. So Nevermore Games becomes room NevermoreGames.
- How Do I Invite Someone to Chat?
- You can use the invite command to invite an user to join the room you are chatting in. For example: /invite Jack will send a private message to Jack suggesting him to join you in your current chat room. This message contains the name of the target room and this name appears as a link. Note that you can put more than one username in the invite command (eg "/invite Jack,Helen,Alf"). They must be splitted by comma (,) without spaces.
Customizing the Chat View
- The Timestamp command allows you to toggle on or off the option of seeing the time the message was posted before each message and the server time in the status bar. By default this option is off. Type "/timestamp" without quotes.
- The Refresh command allows you to adjust the rate at which the posted message are refreshed on your screen. The default rate is currently 10 seconds. To change the rate type "/refresh n" without quotes where n is the time in seconds of the new refresh rate. For example: /refresh 5 will change the rate to 5 seconds. *Beware, if n is set to less than 3, the refresh is reset not to refresh at all (usefull when you want to read lots of old messages without being disturbed)!
- The Show command allows you to adjust the number of messages viewable on your screen. To change the default number, type "/show n" without quotes where n is the number of viewable messages. For example: /show 50 will cause the 50 newest messages to be viewable on your screen. If all of the messages cannot be displayed within the message box, a scroll bar will appear on the right side of the message box.
Trouble!
- Help! My BadgeID Shows in the Chat Room Instead of my Name!
- Because you used your BadgeID to log into the chat room. Use your badge ID to log into the CON, but make up a username at will in the chat room. It is NOT necessary that they match.
- I Can't Post!
- Occasionally that happens. More so with Netscape and especially if you have a Mac. If you have MSIE, please use it. Mac users will need to scroll manually. In any case, closing your browser and logging back in usually clears it up. We'll work on this some more next time around.
- Why Doesn't My Room Stay?
- Only official CyberCon Chat rooms are permanent. All other created rooms only stay active as long as at least one person is present in the room.
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