Tech: Chat room Help!

Subject: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 08:51 PM

How does the new chat room thing werk, i just spent 5 miniutes, tryng to figure it out, but i am a bit fick, so pleese can some body explain it in easy to understand langwige? Thanks.john

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: khandu
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 08:53 PM

I get a blank page when I try it, but Mr. Happy seems to be getting it!

khandu

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 08:57 PM

Hello khandu, i got a blank page as well, i saw your name and said hello to you but nothing happend,

Mr Happy-Haw did you make itt work?

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:00 PM

hi khandu,

i'm getting bu***er all. people keep coming in to the mugchat tatroom, then leaving again without talking to me, boo-hoo-whoo!

to talk on this thing, you have to drag the page up to reveal the dialogue box at the bottom.

otherwise, i've tried the few instructuions given, but they don't work 9[or i'm to dum to get it?)

anyway, y'all have anuther go, shud be funn!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:00 PM

Hmm. Chat room link seems to have disappeared....it was there I know!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:02 PM

I finally found it....I don't get a blank page but I can't type anything........

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:03 PM

Sorcha is right, its gone! Maybe somebody broke it, khandu was there first, so it must have been him! :-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:04 PM

your right sorch!

its gon altogether now! yippee

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:04 PM

OK, I found it under the Quick Links menu.....and you have to double click in the message box at the bottom to type in it.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:06 PM

sorcha-were did you find it, and what was on the page, to type something , put your moose at the bottom of the screen.john

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:07 PM

Quick links pull down, John9

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:14 PM

thanks Sorcha, i found it, i wrote a meesage, but dident figure out how to send it.john

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:25 PM

john-boy, 9[frim hill]

when you've dun your messige in the dialog box press return/enter

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: khandu
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:31 PM

I do not have a dialogue box. I do not have any box. I just have a blank window. By God, there is a conspiracy here!!!

khandu

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Noreen
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:34 PM

click 'return' or 'enter' to send.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:37 PM

To get the box to type in you have to click the little buton that says OK. That opens the line to type in.

~S~

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Max
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:41 PM

Ah, the bugs. We go and get the most compatible chat room in the world and it still don't work for all. Figures. We'll work it out folks. And remember, when bitching, complaining, asking for help, helping us help and so on, be sure to include as much information as you can. Such as browser and version, operating system, mac or pc, credit card number and mother's maiden name.

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:43 PM

Hey, Max, we're making it work! Just gotta figure out the bells and whistles! I LOVE it! (something else to get addicted to........) Thanks, hon!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Noreen
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:44 PM

Works good here Max my dear!

Subject: RE: Tech: Chat room Help!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:46 PM

I just found that it seems to work much better if you set your browser for Full Screen. The dialogue box and command buttons hide themselves and you have to keep movin' those little slider thingies around to uncover them. With the Full Screen setting the whole box stays onscreen all the time.

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:10 PM

Harp, my screen shows you still there!

~S~

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 09:41 AM

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

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 - 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...