Chat Blazer Enterprise Client Help

This help file contains most of the information that you may require to make use of the functions available in the Chat Blazer client applet. The content herein is divided into the different windows that you will see when using the chat client.

Main Interface

After you have entered a room from the Login Window or via direct login, you will see the main chat interface. This is where you will see chat messages going through the chat room. You will also use it to chat with other users in the room.

Component	Description
Chat Text Area	The text area where chat and system messages are displayed.
Text Input Area	Eenter their chat message here. To enter a multi-line message, press Shift-Enter or Ctrl-Enter to go to the next line.
Function Panels	There are 4 function panels, you may not see all of them on the interface as it depends on how your administrator has customized the client. Users Rooms Buddies Options You can click on the arrow on the right-side of a panel's tab to float the function panel. Once a function panel is floated, you can dock it again by closing the window, i.e. clicking the Close Window icon on the window's title bar.
Banner	Rotating banner ads.
Toolbar, Userbar, Expression Bar	See following table.

Toolbar / Userbar / Expression Bar

You may not see some of the buttons (or even the whole button bar), depending on the client customization.

Button	Description
TOOLBAR
Connect / Logout	Connect to the chat server if the user has logged out. Logs out the user if the user is connected.
Float	Float the chat interface as a separate window from the browser. A depressed button indicates that the interface is currently floated. Please note that even when the chat interface is floated, you cannot close the applet's browser window. Doing so will cause the applet to shutdown and it will log you out of the chat system.
Help	Opens a browser window to display client's help documentation.
USERBAR
Private	Initiate a private chat session with another user.
Info	Obtain another user's profile.
Ignore	Ignore a selected user so that all messages from that user are not displayed. A user ignored by you will have an ignored icon displayed beside his avatar.
Add Buddy	Add the selected user to my buddy list. The selected user must be a member of the chat site. This button does not appear if you did not login as a member.
EXPRESSION BAR
Bold	Insert bold tags or wrap selected text with tags.
Italicize	Insert italics tags wrap selected text with tags.
URL	Open insert URL dialog.
Emoticon	Open emoticon window.
Send Audio	List of audio messages that you can send.
Online Status	Set your status to "Online" or "Away".
Clear	Clear the chat text area.
Transcript	Open the Transcript window which contains all the messages received during this chat session. You can use the Transcript window to copy-and-paste the text in the chat session and save it to your computer's hard disk.

Function Panel 1: Users

The Users function panel displays the other users in the same room as the user. The userbar will only be enabled when another user, excluding yourself, is selected.

Function Panel 2: Rooms

The Rooms panel allows you to change to other rooms in the chat site. It also shows users in other chat rooms. You can also use it to create your own room. The room list will only show public rooms. Private rooms are not displayed.

To view the list of users in another room, simply select the room from the room list.

Function Panel 3: Buddies

The Buddy List window allows you to manage your list of buddies and to view their current status. You add a buddy to your buddy list by clicking on the "Buddy" button in the userbar of the main interface.

Function Panel 4: Options

In the Options panel, you can change your preferred text properties. Types of messages can have different colors but font size is applied to all message types. Audio alerts can also be modified or set. If you have logged in as a member, these settings are stored to a database and will be retrieved the next time you login again.

Profile Window

To bring up the Profile window, click on your avatar to the left of the text input area.

In the Profile window, you can include information here about yourself so that other users can view them. You can also choose your avatar icon. Your avatar icon is seen by everyone in the chat room. Only profiles for members are saved. If you are a guest user, your profile will not be saved.

To revert back to the default avatar icon, deselect any avatar icon you have previously chosen.

Function	Description
Go To Room	Try to go to another room. The room will be checked for any password-protection it may have and whether the user has access rights to the room.
Refresh All	Get an update of the room listing.
Private Room…	Try to go to a private room. Since you cannot see the list of private rooms, you will have to know the name of the private room which you want to enter.
Create	Create either a public room or a private one. You can protect your public rooms with a password. Private rooms do not need passwords since they are not visible to other users unless you explicitly inform them. The Create Room dialog is shown below. Do note that rooms created by users are not persistent. Your rooms will be deleted once you logout, even though you may not have deleted them prior to logging out.
Delete	Delete a room you have created. Do note that all users within the room will be purged, including yourself, if you are in the affected room.

Function	Description
Private	Initiate a private chat session with any of your online buddies regardless of which room they are in.
Profile	Obtain the selected buddy's profile.
Delete	Remove the selected user from your buddy list. If the user being removed also lists you in his or her buddy list, you will also be removed from the other list.
Alert my buddies when I login	If toggled, users who list you as their buddy will be notified when you login to the chat site.
Alert me when my buddies login	If toggled, you will be notified in the chat area when any of your buddies login, provided they have enabled this notification in the preceding setting.

Setting	Description
Text Properties	You can change your preferred text properties here. Types of messages can have different colors but font size is applied to all message types.
Reject Private Chat	Automatically reject all incoming requests for private chat sessions. Current private chat sessions can still continue.
Lock User Selection	Prevent the User List from returning to an unselected state. If this is enabled, you can keep on whispering to another user without having to repeatedly click on his name.
Disable Audio	Do not play received audio messages. However, you can still send them.
Smart Replace	Automatically detect and replace URLs and emoticons.