Ignore
Click on the nickname of the person who you wish to ignore. You will notice that square brackets [ ] will appear around the person's nickname. This now means that you will no longer see any messages from that person. Clicking ignore a second time will remove the square brackets and allow you to receive messages from the person again.PM
Click on the nickname of the person you wish to send a private message to, or wish to view their user information. Then click the PM button. A new window will open containing the person's details. Typing into the text area of this window will send text that only that particular user will see. Clicking the Info button in this window will toggle the showing of the person's user details. Double clicking the user's nickname will also activate this function.Style/Colour
These pull down menus control the way other users see the style (bold/italic etc..) and colour of any text you typeImages
A new window will open when this button is clicked containing a bunch of little pictures. Underneath each picture you will see a code (// followed by a number). If this code is typed into the main chat area or in a private message FOLLOWED BY A SPACE. The code is replaced by the image the code related to.Preferences
This button opens a new window, from which you can specify various options on how the chat room looks, feels and sounds. Please note that any changes you make here apply only to you, they do not affect the way others see any text you may type.Rooms
You may chat in various rooms on RealChat. Each room has a particular topic or genre that you may wish to join in chatting on. The new window that opens displays a list of all available rooms followed by the subject of that room and the amount of users in there. Simply select the room you wish to join and click on Change Room. Users are also permitted to create their own custom rooms. You can create your own room by typing the room Name & Topic (and optionally a Password to allow only selected people to enter) in the text areas provided, then clicking on New Room. Note that user rooms that others have created that require a password to enter appear as ## 101 ##, ## 102 ##, ## 103 ## etc.. To enter one of these rooms you will need to know the password the person who made the room used when they created it. If you know this, simply type it into the Password area, select the room you wish to join and click on Change Room.Emotions
Pressing this button creates a new list to the left of the nicknames list in the chat window. You will see a list of actions that you may perform on yourself (by double clicking the emotion) or on another user (by clicking the emotion, the person's nickname and then Emote User) Clicking the Emotions button again will remove the emotions list. Note that you can create your own custom emotion by starting anything you type with a colon ( : ) character.Who, where
Simply gives you a list of all users on the system and what rooms they are in.
Extra Useful Information.
You may type a link such as http://rcsoft.net/ or www.yahoo.com in the chat room. Any text like this will be converted into a web browser style clickable link. Any user that clicks the text with the mouse will open a new browser window and display the url.
You can create multi coloured messages by using special codes. Typing these codes into the chat room will change the colour and style of any text that follows them. The Following codes can be used.
`0 - Plain text no italics, non bold
`1 - Bold text , no italics
`2 - Italic text, non bold
`3 - Bold text, Italic
`4 - Black
`5 - Grey
`6 - Red
`7 - Green
`8 - Blue
`9 - Cyan
`a - Pink / Magenta
`b - Purple
`c - Orange
`d - Brown
`e - Light Blue (emotion colour)
`f - Light Pink
`g - Light Grey
(The ` character used in these codes is usually obtained by pressing the key underneath "ESC" and to the left of "1".)For example, typing the following text into the chat room
`1`4Hello `7my `3`8name `0`ais `3`4J`5o`6h`7n. `c`0How are you lot today!
will look like this
Hello my name is John. How are you lot today!