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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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01 iChat Menu

Oct 2008

1 iChat Menu

Once the application has been launched for the first time and the Welcome Screens completed iChat will open and place it's Menus in the Menu bar. On each subsequent opening iChat the menus will be there. This series of Pictures hopes to show you what these are.

This picture is the Application Menu, referred to on these pages as the iChat Menu.

Like most applications it has an About item at the top and a Quit item at the bottom.

The Preferences items has a series of dots (… ellipses) afterwards indicating something else will open.

If you have enabled Rendezvous as well as an AIM valid Screen Name then you can choose to Log Out or Log In with the next two items (the words change depending if you are already logged in or not.) Some Settings in the Preferences require that you are Logged out

The Show All refers to All the iChat windows that you have open. One each for the Buddy Lists and however many Actice Chats or even ones you have not dismissed the window for plus any relating to functions accessed by the other menus. Please note big windows may lay over smaller ones.

Next the File Menu

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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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.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 iChat or Application Menu.

Fairly small selection in the Menu. Standard About option, Link to Preferences, Log Out (or In) of either Buddy List. The Service option and the Hide ones.

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.