Tech: Chat room Help!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 04:48 AM

can someone from the management make the mudchat 'empty/occupied' box permanent on the main page, please.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 04:14 AM

Absolutely fab and brill....

Thanks alot Alice, I've got it working! Downloaded the internet explorer, and yeeee heee!

Cheers!

Ella

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 04:03 AM

I'm going to persist and persist and so on!

Ella

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Alice
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 11:12 AM

In a previous message I said it would be nice to have reset cookie on Quick Links, then today realized it is there, just with the new label of "log in" instead of "reset cookie".

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 11:07 AM

Somebody more knowledgable than me should be able to help you better but I wonder if, when you last left the chatroom, you used the X in the top right rather than the "log off" at the bottom. I think I had the same problem for the same reason yesterday.
I can tell you that your messages were visible and we did reply to you.
C-flat (not on an Apple-mac)

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Alice
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 11:07 AM

E, I use a Mac, also, and have Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh, a free version I think, and it works with the chat room (when things don't freeze or disconnect).

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 10:58 AM

I'm on an Apple Mac, running INternet explorer 4.5 (this may be the problem? - I'm awaiting new software from work....) and I can see everyone's names, and I can even type a message.

Alice tells me she can see my message (thank you Alice - and I can see it too). But I can't actually see any replies to it.

I do get a message saying I'm not logged on to the chat, but then my name appears in the chat list...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

E

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:59 AM

gawd... still not working for me.. .plust I keep getting a box that says I'm not logged on!

Is it because I have an Apple Mac?

E

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Snuffy
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:11 AM

Seems to work fine, except that the buttons at the bottom are almost totally obscured by IE's bottom bar.

WassaiL!V

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 08:54 AM

Well I tried it today... and nutty and Jeanie and Bagpuss plus Trevor... were either sending me to Conventry... or just could get all my hellos I typed in... or I couldn't see their replies...

sigh....

(Or it could be because I have an Apple Mac???

Ella.... (sulking)

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 08:51 AM

I had a few minor problems yesterday. Some of my messages didn't appear on my screen but apperently were visible to others and shortly after I got kicked out and had to log back in.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 05:54 AM

ssshhhh Giok! He might hear! Those Microsoft boyos are monitoring evrything - it's a conspiracy, I tell you!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:23 PM

Ah Fib dear thing it's your prejudices against that nice Mr gates that's showing now!!
Failte   

Giok

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 02:25 PM

OK, this is what I've experienced on the iMac. Netscape doesn't work but my Explorer 5 browser for Macintosh does work... I just had to re-set my Mudcat cookie. It would be great to have the re-set cookie link on the quicklinks pulldown menu where it used to be. I finally went to the Membership sign up to re-set and then the chat room worked fine. Started a new room called Folk, talked to Bill D, Barbara, Mark Clark and others, and visualized the virtual 24/7 Mudcat Tavern will be a room in Mudchat along with the village pub, the Mudcat ship, the campfire (and of course all the village idiots - ha!).


Thanks to Jeff, Max and all.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: MMario
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:56 PM

yes alice - I was able to see that you were in and see the message you displayed.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:45 PM

There's a Log Out button in the menu that comes up when you click on Quick Links,

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:19 PM

Log off button? Can't see a log off button. I've tried several times this morning with mixed results. Once I could see the bottom window to type in but nothing else in the large dialog box. MMario was the only other person in the room at the time. Did you seem the message I typed, Mario? Usually I can see the names of the people in chat, the menu to choose rooms, but nothing else shows up. This is still on the iMac with Netscape.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Pene Azul
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:01 PM

I think I solved the problem of the chat window not fitting on low-res screens. You should also be able to resize the window, now.

Also, some people might be having problems if using a pop-up eliminator, particularly if closing the window without clicking the "Logoff" botton. In any case, it's best to use the "Logoff" button when you leave MudChat.

Jeff

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Night Owl
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 11:30 AM

rangerroger-I got this from one of the threads a while ago..hope it helps:


"I am lost
I have gone to look for myself
If I come back
Before I return
Please ask me to wait....."

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Pene Azul
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 11:19 AM

Thanks for the feedback, folks. I'm sorry that it's not working for some of you. Please give me as much information as possible, and I'll try to solve these problems. My monitor failed yesterday, and I'm relegated to one that barely works until Friday, so I might not get much done until then.

Thanks,
Jeff

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 10:00 AM

Aha! I had a quick visit on a Windows machine running IE and it worked, and looked fantastic. It's my refusal to use Microsoft's products that appears to be to blame...

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: MMario
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 09:45 AM

there should be a small unmarked box near the bottom of the screen. type in there and return sends the message.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 09:41 AM

I have the same problem Jerry - nowehere to type. So near, and yet so far!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 09:40 AM

Well, I got in and found that danged Jerry Rasmussen beat me to it. But, I outfoxed him, and managed to get into the room. A couple of other Catters came in, but there is no place on my screen to type in a message, and they left. Me too. I'll keep trying... :-)


I didn't see your clone in there, Khandu. No Khandu. :-)


The original Jerry Rasmussen


Accept no substitutes.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 09:40 AM

I'm running Netscape 4.7 (on Linux) and can't get chatting either - sob! I'll keep playin' around with it.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 09:33 AM

Mr. Happy, because the threads are NOT chats and people get very upset if they are used as chats.

An alternative to chat for you webbers is to just PM back and forth. It's actually just about as fast as chat, only with one person.

I like the chat for visiting, but I am really looking forward to using it for arguments over politics and so forth! *G* Maybe in realtime chatting we can make more sense than we do when we scribble a message to be read and argued back with, hours later-- maybe when we misunderstand we will be able to clear things up faster.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 05:27 AM

Seems to be OK at the moment. Very Quiet though

Nigel

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:56 AM

just got in again. had a chat with joe offer, but he's gone to bed now.

btw, why do we need another chatroom when this one's here already?

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:16 AM

can't get in today. message says i'm already there but i'm not.

does it mean i'm not all there?

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:13 AM

That's interesting. Sometimes when I enter the population drops by one. I guess I'm that guy who walks into a room and everyone feels like someone just left.

rr

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:02 AM

hmmm..... I'm still on the iMac and tried using Explorer as the browser instead of Netscape and it makes Mudchat (and some other things) not appear on the pull down menu and the text of the thread is squashed on the left margin. Mudcat looks great on the Mac in Netscape except that I can't get the chat room to function once I am in. Thanks, Max and all. Wonders never cease around here.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: alison
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:56 AM

got it back by closing "options"

6 of us + Max now

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: alison
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:53 AM

we could see you Alice.....

I've lost my box to type in... but I can still see the rest....


slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:50 AM

Ooops, almost forgot.I don't have a credit card so you'll have to use Spaw's and my mother's maiden name is Axolotl.

rr

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:50 AM

I could see the names of people who were in Mudchat but could not enter any type or read any messages. Using an iMac with browser Netscape v.4.7.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:47 AM

i not going to try it any more , because i heard you can get bad people using chat roons, i saw a program about it on TV, i think it was called watchhdog , i just rememberdd about it, what happens is they pretend to be other people, so domt talk to them, it was in the new spaper as well, they might come roynd and nick your'e cds or something, i dont know really.john

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:46 AM

Well,I went in and out several times but never got any further than the "Enter Mudchat" page. When I would hit enter I would raise the population by one and end up back at the "Enter" page. Whe I clicked on enter again, I would get the blank screen with the heading that I was already there, so I couldn't enter. Going back to the main Mudcat page and then going back again,the population would have dropped until I hit Enter and it was deja-vu all over again.

Where am I? Now. When I need me the most.

For Max and Jeff and the joeclones,I am using webtv.The browser is a combination of Netscape and Internet Explorer. What version it is I don't know,but 2.7 sticks in my mind, ad probably my craw.

rr   

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: alison
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:44 AM

woring well... 4 of us in there now... thanks for bringing it back max

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Max
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:43 AM

Heap your praise onto Pene. I can't take a whole lot of credit for this one. Pene Azul is the man.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Chip2447
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 12:36 AM

works well here...THANX MAX AND ALL THE MUDCAT ELVES

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: artbrooks
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:31 PM

No chat room. No new Mudcat. Am I doing something wrong?

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:10 PM

Harp, my screen shows you still there!

~S~

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:03 PM

HEY JOHN.....close out the chat and then come back and try it again


Spaw

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:03 PM

Woo, *gloat,* this MudChat sure is fun. >:)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: harpgirl
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:01 PM

hey no offense guys...the mudchat room threw me out! I think it has some bugs in it still! later...night night!   hg

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:41 PM

Don't woory everybody, it is probably because I am using Internet TV, and some things dont work on that, I will get a computer eventually.john

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: khandu
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:25 PM

Well, my Friend Jerry, don't feel too alone. There is also a double-khandu. He is chatting away while I sit here trying to convince all that he ain't me!

Ain't Life grand!!

khandu

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:22 PM

WaddidiIdorong? When I come on, it says someone else is already using the name Jerry Rasmussen. Who is this imposter? Just let me get my hands on him. As Pogo said, (paraphrased) I have met the enemy and he are me. It looks like it will be exciting (and crowded with all the talkers around here... me included... :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Áine
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:16 PM

It's working a treat for me! ;-) The only problem I see is that Amos likes to play with his 'options' box in public (hehehehehe).

This is one of the best chat programs I've seen. A great big thank you to the fella that donated it to all us big mouthed baby Mudcats!!

Now, if we only had the Mudcat Radio again . . . ah, those were days (sniff, sniff). But, ya can't have it all -- and Jeff and Max have come up something pretty near THE BEST!!

Thanks guys, Áine

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:52 PM

Thanks Max, i am using my telly for mudcat, it is called internet TV, I have not got a browser, or a credit card, they are a big rip off anyway, but my mum is called Linda, i dont know how that will help, but I dont know anything about chatrooms anyway.john