Ralph Johns

These iChat (Version 1) pages are coloured Blue and have the iChat (1) icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from later ones by having the Running Man.  

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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07 Window Menu

Oct 2008

7 Window Menu

The menu ways to bring certain windows to the Front. The Buddy Lists have Keystrokes that can also be used when iChat is the Front application wth out coming to the Menu Bar

The Buddy list that logs in to the AIM server is called "Buddy List" and is Window number one. The Rendezvous one tends to keep that name and is numbered as two. These only appear here if they are Logged in in the iChat Menu.

Bring all to the Front will bring all the iChat Windows to be in front of any Finder windows that are open and any other application windows as well. What it will not do is bring a small window of iChat's such as a Dialogue box from behind a larger window such as a Chat window.

Looking to the top of this Menu the Minimize Window puts the Window in the DOCK. Zoom may help enlarge a difficlut to read Font.

This is the last of the Menu items as Help speaks for itself.

The next is in Line from the Picture Index page is Preferences.

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©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

Revised and Edited Links and Content with corrections and updates Nov 19th 2024.

Information Block

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

This 2024 Edit/Update does make some tense changes to the Contents but mostly it stands as written. The general purpose of the update was to move, as much as possible to HTML 5 compliance where I could.

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

This Information Block will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

The Windows menu. At it simplest it allows you to bring individual iChat windows to the Front.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) would only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.