If the IRC Console window has been closed, select Open Console from the IRC menu and the IRC Console will reopen.
Change Nickname
To change your nickname without logging off, select Change Nickname from the IRC menu. Type the new nickname in the window and click OK.
 
List Servers
Select List Servers from the IRC menu to display a list of all the connected IRC Servers to the Server you are connected. All Server names are displayed in the IRC Console window.
DCC Chat
Select DCC Chat from the IRC menu to initiate a direct client chat connection. A window is displayed for you to enter the user's nickname to chat with. Click OK and you are then connected directly to that user's IRC client program. No data is sent through the IRC Servers, usually resulting in faster response times. DCC Chat is sometimes preferred over private messages when server lag times are extreme.
 
If someone wants to DCC Chat with you, a DCC Chat window is displayed identifying the user trying to chat with you. If you do not want to chat with this user you can click the Ignore button and all messages from this user will be ignored.
Notify List
Select Notify List from the IRC menu to display the Notify List window. Click the Add button to insert new users. Highlight a user's name and then click the approriate button to Remove, do a Whois, or send a Private message. For each user listed, Offline (red) or Online (green), appears next to their name letting you know their status. If they are online, but Away, that is also noted.
 
Send Sound (WAV SOUNDS)
To play sounds to other people, select the Send Sound option from the IRC pull down menu. A dialog is displayed with the names of the current sound files in ChatNet's Sounds folder.
 
You can select a name from that list or you can type one in the space provided. You don't have to actually have a sound file to play it to someone else.
When people play sounds to each other in IRC, the sound files themselves aren't being sent. A command saying "play the sound file hello.wav" is being sent. In order for that command to do anything, the receiver must already have the sound hello.wav on their computer. Sound files can be downloaded off the Internet or exchanged between IRC users. ChatNet looks for these files in the Sounds folder of the ChatNet ƒ folder.
Remember: The ChatNet ƒ folder is located in the Preferences folder in the System folder. As you collect sound files, this folder is where you want to keep them.
ChatNet doesn't actually play the sound files itself. It launches them, just as if you had double-clicked on the file. In order for a sound file to play, it either must be a System 7 sound (which can be played directly by the Mac OS) or there must be a sound-playing application available to play them.
The easiest solution is to convert the .wav files into System 7 sounds. An application such as SoundApp <http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~franke/SoundApp/> can do this for you. After converting, make sure the file name is the same. If ChatNet is told to play hello.wav, it is going to be looking for hello.wav, not hello.snd, or hello.
  Note: You aren't limited to .wav files. If another format becomes
popular in IRC, as long as you can convert them into System 7 sounds,
they will work the same way.
Other than having the files available to be played in your Sounds folder, you don't have to do anything for people to play sounds to you in ChatNet. If someone plays a sound that you don't have, a message will display showing that the user attempted to play the sound.
Remember: You are only sending a sound file name, not the sound file itself. With ChatNet there is no need to know the slash (/) commands to send a WAV sound to another chat user. Just use the Send Sound option and type the name of the sound you want played on their chat client. If they have that sound it will be played even if you do not have it available for ChatNet.
A site to visit for WAV sounds is Doc's Chat Sounds: <http://www.nwlaser.com/wavs/>
This site has almost an unlimited number of WAV sounds to download. You can also download the most current version of SoundApp from this site.
A few sample WAV sounds have been included in the enclosed Sounds folder for you to try. They have already been converted to System 7 format.
Text Options from the Menu Bar
The Font, Size and Color menu choices can be selected at any time to change the font, font size, and text color. When the font or size is changed, all text in all open windows immediately changes to reflect the new choice. Changing the text color only affects new text received in the current Channel.
Text Options for Message Text
The Font Style can be set to bold by pressing Control B, underline by pressing Control U, or reverse by pressing Control R prior to the typing of the text. Styles can be mixed within a text line. To end a custom style and return to normal text, type the same option modifier again.
The Font Color can be set to any of 15 different colors by pressing Control K # (where # represents the number for the color you want). To change font colors within a line of text just enter the new Control K # between your text characters.
Color ID #s for Control K#:
Control K 1 = Black
Control K 2 = Dark Blue
Control K 3 = Dark Green
Control K 4 = Light Red
Control K 5 = Dark Red
Control K 6 = Dark Purple
Control K 7 = Orange
Control K 8 = Yellow
Control K 9 = Light Green
Control K 10 = Dark Cyan
Control K 11 = Light Cyan
Control K 12 = Light Blue
Control K 13 = Light Purple
Control K 14 = Dark Grey
Control K 15 = Light Grey
  Note: There is no current standard between chat clients for text
styles and color. Do not be confused by what others say when you
are online. Just reference the text entry options above as your guide
for ChatNet.
(/) Slash Commands
Many IRC clients support a set of commands known as "slash commands" (because you type '/' in front of them). ChatNet does not support these commands. What ChatNet does support are Server commands. These are the commands that IRC clients use to communicate to IRC Servers. Many IRC clients support these with their "/raw" or "/quote" commands.
Many of the Server commands are very similar to "slash commands" supported by other software. Technically oriented users may be interested in looking at RFC1459 (Internet Relay Chat Protocol), which defines these commands.
The most commonly used of these commands is privmsg. Slash commands call this /msg. Some situations require sending a private message to an individual or Bot when it is inconvenient to open a private message window. If you are told you need to type a /msg command in order for something to work, here is how to convert it into a /privmsg Server command (the things that change are bold and underlined):
Example slash command:
/msg nickname this is the message
Equivalent ChatNet Server command:
/privmsg nickname :this is the message (Note the colon : after the nickname and before the text of the message) This is also equivalent to sending "this is the message" within a Private message window of ChatNet.
ChatNet has put a great deal of effort to remove the need for IRC users to learn and use the complicated (/) slash commands that many clients require. ChatNet feels that if a button can do it why confuse the user. Many advanced IRC users prefer using (/) slash commands and probably should use a different client when ease of use is not their most important concern.
Copy and Paste Chat Text
While viewing any window, the text can be copied by highlighting the desired text and selecting Copy (Γîÿ-C) from the Edit menu. That text can then be pasted to any application that supports text by selecting Paste (Γîÿ-V) from the Edit menu.
Erasing Chat Text
If a channel becomes too cluttered with text or you want to prevent someone from reading a conversation on your screen, select Erase text (Γîÿ-E) from the Edit menu. The text in that window is cleared.
Windows Menu
The Windows menu does more than simply list the open windows. The frontΓÇômost window is indicated by a check mark ( 4 ), and Channels with new messages you have not yet read are preceded by a bullet ( l ). Text can only be typed in the frontΓÇômost window.
Saving Text
To save a Channel’s discussion, choose Start Capture… (⌘-K) from the File menu. A dialog box opens to allow the front-most channel's discussion to be saved. Navigate within the Save dialog and click the Save button to begin capture. Only new discussion text will be captured.
To stop capturing a discussion, select Stop Capture (Γîÿ-K) from the File menu. If multiple discussions are being captured to multiple logs, the Stop Capture command applies to the discussion occurring in the frontΓÇômost window.
Printing Text
To print the text of the front–most window, choose Print… from the File menu.
Speech On/Speech Off
Selecting Speech On from the Preferences menu enables synthesized speech. When selected, the menu item toggles to display Speech Off. ChatNet supports MacinTalk, PlainTalk, and Apple Speech Manager. When speech is on, messages in the frontΓÇômost window are spoken in addition to being displayed on the screen.
 Note: In very active channels, speech will be unable to keep up with
the conversation.
Speech Preferences
To access the Speech Preferences dialog box, Speech On must be enabled. The scroll bars allow the volume, rate, and pitch of the voice to be changed. Computers using MacinTalk 2, PlainTalk, or Apple Speech Manager can also select what voice to use.
 
Volume
The volume scroll bar allows the volume of the voice to be changed. Volume increases as the thumb indicator moves to the right.
Rate
The rate scroll bar changes the speech rate of the voice. The speech rate increases as the thumb indicator moves to the right.
Pitch
The pitch scroll bar changes the pitch of the voice. The pitch increases as the thumb indicator moves to the right.
Voice
The voice popΓÇôup menu allows different voices to be selected. When a voice is selected, the rate and pitch are set to the voiceΓÇÖs default settings. Computers without MacinTalk 2, PlainTalk, or Apple Speech Manager revert back to MacinTalk 1 and ignore the voice setting.
 Note: ChatNet’s memory partition may need to be increased to
support some voices.
Test
Clicking Test speaks the words ΓÇ£These are the current speech preferencesΓÇ¥ to sample the current speech preferences.
