In order to chat in the HealingAfterLoss.Org chat room, you
must register with our site. Guests cannot enter the chat rooms.
To register, visit the registration
page. If you have registered, but have forgotten your password,
visit the resend
password page. If you have registered but have not yet activated
your account, click the activiation link you received in your
email. If you have misplaced your email, visit the activation
link resend page.
If you are having difficulties getting into chat, visit the
Adobe
Flash Verification Page. You need to install Adobe
Flash Player (version 6 or above) in your browser if you don't
already have it (and 98% of all computers connected to the internet
in 2008 already have it).
Once you have registered, or if you are returning to the site,
you can login to the chat room. Once you are logged into the HealingAfterLoss.Org
Community, click the "Chat" button.
Logging Out
When you finish chatting click the "exit room" button
then you will return room-list page.
Once you are logged in wait until all rooms list loaded. Move
your mouse over rooms and you will see them be highlighted one
by one. Stop when you find a room you want to chat in. Click
to enter. Every room has user limit. If a room is full for the
time being, you will be told to come around later. When you
enter a room, the system will announce to all that you have
come in. The other members in the room will most likely greet
you with {{{{hugs}}}}.
Quitting Room
When you finish chatting, or when you want to quit one room
to enter another room, you can click the top button "exit room"
to quit current room. If you choose closing browser, you will
close this chat client for all. If you just click "quit", you
will return to the room list and you can enter another room.
After selecting a room to enter, you can type a message in
the input field near the bottom of the screen to chat and hit
"enter" on keyboard or the button "send" to send the message
out. Your message appears on the chat screen followed your nickname.
Press ctrl+"enter" or clicking "Newline" button to
start a new line.
Idle status /typing status
After a duration of time when a user remain silent both in
public and in private window if any, his/her status will be
automatically changed to "idle". When idle user begin talks,
the idle status disappear automatically. When user begins to
talk, whether in public or in private window, the speaker and
other people in the same chatroom will see a "typing"
status after his or her name, when speaker clicks "send"
button, the "typing" status disappear automatically.
Interval between two utterances.
Please wait a couple of seconds before sending another message.
This pause is for preventing flooding on screen.
Ignore
If there is any repulsive chatter in the room, simply select his
username in the user-list and click "Ignore" from the
popup menu. From then on, every message the chatter posts to you,
whether private or public, will not appear on your screen. When
you changed your mind, you can re-select this user and "Cancel
ignore" to give this user the second chance to talk to you.
Our hosts try to keep the conversation focused and make sure that
no one is left out, so we hope that this feature is very rarely
utilized. If another member is a problem for you, please bring
it to the attention of HALO
staff.
Action
The "/me" command is used to describe an action. Your
nickname will automatically be inserted and the text will appear
differently than normal channel messages. This command can be
used in chat lobby or private messages.
For example: "/me waves goodbye." then it will display
on the screen:"<someone> waves goodbye."
The "/me" command has to be at the beginning of a sentence
to be effective.
Cached messages New!
Once a user enters a room, about 5 last messages will display
in current chat window to give the new comer a brief picture of
the conversation which is going on in gray color.
Chat bot Message New!
Our Webmaster has programmed a "chat bot" to broadcast
reminders every few minutes.
Top buttons
Enable/Disable Sound
Administrator can enable or disable sounds in a room as default
setting, every user can change the setting with the top buttons.
In a chatroom, if you want to be notified of any occurrence, like
someone saying something, someone entering or leaving the room,
etc. you can enable the "sound" button so that even
if you left the chat window, you know what's going on in this
room. If you feel all the sounds are annoying, please click the
speaker icon to disable sound, to mute the whole room. Your setting
only affects your own chat. Once you logged out, this setting
will restore default.
This "sound" button control all the sound effects in
a chatroom, if you just want to enable/disable one specific sound,
you can configure in the "option" panel instead.
History
There are two methods to access conversation history panel.
You can click the "history" button to open conversation
history easily. or you can check chat history in option panel:
options->view.
by default you have 100kb space for chat log, but surely you
can set it bigger or smaller in option panel, according to your
hardware performance. Once this 100kb is filled up with chat
log, it will stop recording further messages. So please periodically
backup chat log. Once logged out, your chat log will be cleared.
So if the conversation is very important to you, please remember
to save it before you leave.
Enable/Disable Scrolling
New messages come in from the bottom of the screen. As new messages
come in, old messages will scroll off the top of the screen. And
only a certain amount of lines can appear in your chat box, the
previous history will be automatically cleared to ensure the chatting
speed. When checking details of some words, you may want to stick
the chat window to one position and stop scrolling, click "scroll"
button and you can stay where you are. Click it again, the screen
will start scrolling all over again.
Clear screen
Press the rubber button to clear all messages on your screen.
Exit Room
Click the "exit" button to exit current room.
Middle Toolbar
Change Avatar
There is a toolbar above the input area with many options.
And the first icon is a default avatar image. You can select
an avatar to express your feeling or your style by clicking
on the icon and choosing from the nail-up panel. You can change
your avatar as often as you like, but you can't have two avatars
at once. The avatar you chose will apear in 3 places: before
your words both in public and in private, and before your name
in userlist.
Bold Font
The "B" icon represents bold text. You don't have to highlight
any words in your message to change it bold; just click this
"B" icon and the whole message become bold. Click it again to
restore it back to normal text.
Italic Font
The "I" icon represents italic text. You don't have to choose
any words in your message to change it italic; just click this
"I" icon and your message become italic. Click it again to change
it back to normal text.
Underline Font
The "U" icon represents underline text. You don't have to choose
any words in your message to change it underline; just click
this "U" icon and your message become underline. Click it again
to change it back to normal text.
Font Color
The color block beside "U" icon is for selecting colors. Once
a color is selected from the color-picker; the whole message
will change to this color. Sorry, you can't have 2 or more colors
in one message.
Change Background
There are several backgrounds from which you can pick. The background
is up to you, and no one else sees what you have chosen. Click
"change background" icon and you'll see variable backgrounds.
Smileys
There added a smiley face in the toolbar, you can launch animated
smiley panel by clicking this icon. The smiley faces you've chosen
will appear at the bottom of your conversation, at maximum you
can select one line of smileys.
Tip: Now smiley can be inserted into chat using shortcut, like
":)"= . Check detailed list
Note: If any of the above buttons disappears,
don't worry, it's just disabled by webmaster.
Should HALO staff create a password-protected room, in the
room list, you would see this kind of room start with a lock-room
icon instead a normal room icon. When chat members or guests
click this room , a popup dialogue will ask for password. Please
contact the room manager to ask for password.
Changing Room
When you change room from a normal to a password-protected
one, a popup dialogue will ask for password. Enter the password
and you are in.
Chatters are able to open a private window to any other chatter
in the same channel to talk one on one.
Click any username you like, the background color of the chosen
username will change and a mini menu popup with "private" button
in it. Click the "private" button, then a private window is activated
between you and the recipient. Or you can double click a username
to activate a private window with him or her. Click the "minimize"
button at the top menu of private window to shrink it to a single
bar, or click the "maximize" button to extend it to
original size. Click the top bar of private window to activate
different private chat window. Click the top bar of private window
and drag, you can move it around. Click the right-top "close"
button to close this private chat window.
Even if the one you're private chatting with left the current
room , maybe he was in room-list page, maybe he entered another
room, as long as he didn't log out the whole chat, you can still
private chat with him. When he logged out and got offline, you'll
be notified that he logged out, you can't send further message
to him since then, but the private window remains and you can
still read your conversation.
User can change setting in option panel to refuse to accept
private window in case he or she want to be left alone.
Click the top button "option" and you'll launch the
"option panel." Explore it and you'll find a lot of
interesting features: switch from multiple-line or single-line
mode; enable/disable converting smiley symbols to graphic animation;
remember username/ password in cache; personal sound setting;
save history log in memory, etc.
You can download the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox,
or Netscape. We recommend one of the alternate browsers due to
a number of security flaws in IE:
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