Getting Started

Establish Your Identity
On the Main Chat Window there are two boxes, Your Name and Your Profile. Enter your name in the first box and an optional profile in the second box. Your profile can include links to Web pages in the form http://www.address.com and links to e-mail addresses in the form mailto:name@address.com.

Enter a Chat Room
Click a room name to see the list of people in the room. Click the Enter Room button to enter a room.

Start Chatting
Type your chat messages in the space at the bottom of the chat room window and press the Enter key to send your message.

Launch a Private Chat
Once you're in a chat room, double click a name to launch a private chat session with any visitor in the room.


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Menu Items

Places (main chat window only)

Enter Room
Select this menu item to enter a chat room. The Enter Room button performs the same function.

Refresh Rooms
Select this menu item to refresh the list of chat rooms. The Refresh Rooms button performs the same function.

Exit
Select this menu item to disconnect from the server and close all applet windows.


Room (chat room window only)

Close
Select this menu item to close the chat room window.


Options

Font Name
Select this menu item to choose a font for the chat rooms.

Font Style
Select this menu item to choose Regular, Italic, Bold or Bold Italic font styles in the chat rooms.

Increase Font
Select this menu item to increase the size of the chat room fonts.

Decrease Font
Select this menu item to decrease the size of the chat room fonts.

Entrance Alerts
Select this menu item to display the name and profile of each person who enters a chat room. Select it again to turn off the feature.

Audio Alerts
Select this menu item to allow other people in the chat room to Ring you with an Audio Alert. Select it again to turn off the feature. Select both this menu item and the Entrance Alerts menu item to hear a sound each time a new person enters the chat room.

Show Count Changes
Select this menu item to have the room count displayed whenever someone enters or leaves the room. Select it again to turn off the feature.

Web Touring
Select this menu item to have Web addresses which appears in chat messages opened automatically in a Web browser window. Select it again to turn off the feature. When Web Touring, you must type in http:// before the URL.


People (chat room window only)

Ring name
To signal someone with a sound, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Ring, then select this menu item. The sound will be played only if the person you select has Audio Alerts enabled.

Ignore name
To Ignore someone, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Ignore, then select this menu item. All chat messages and private chat requests from that person will be ignored.

Unignore name
To Unignore someone you're ignoring, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Unignore, then select this menu item.

Count
Select this menu item to display the count of people in the room.


Help

Help Contents
Select this menu item to display this Web page.

About Bravenet Chat
Select this menu item to display information about the Bravenet Chat applet.

Hot Keys The function keys are all hot keys.