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04 Alerts Preferences

Oct 2008

4 Alerts Preferences

This is the iChat 3 Alerts Section of the Preferences. It could equally be called "Actions" or "Events".

Using the drop downs and the tick boxes you can set sounds for actions/events within iChat to have their own sound and /or spoken phrase.

In the second drop down are the iChat sounds. The drop down is also divided to show the System wide Alert sounds and any sounds you have in your ~/Library/Sounds folder.

Once chosen the sound is played in everyday use at the volume you have set in System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects tab for the System Alerts.

The Spoken phrase on show for some will show a default for that action, such as the Buddy has Logged in one will read "@ has logged in" The @ used here will read the Buddy's name as it is displayed in the Buddy List. The Voice used is whatever you have set in System Preferences > Speech. You can change the phrase to read/say whatever you want - they will keep playing until finished and if long your Buddy may get to hear the end as you connect - so it may pay to keep it polite.

The next and last Pane is the one that deal with the Audio Video part of the App.

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Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

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This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

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

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

In this Pane you can select an Event as they are called at the Drop down and choose what sound it plays when the Action Happens.

Additionally you can make the iChat Icon in the DOCK bounce when it happens.

Lastly you can set whether the App speaks at this point. The different Actions/Events have some predetermined phrases but they can changed. The Voice used is the one you have set in System Preferences.

The volume of the sounds and the speech is the same as set in the System Preferences > Sound for the Alert Volume which sort of provides a link back to the title of this Pane.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 moving towards being fully HTML 5 compliant 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) should/may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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