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03 Status Messages Custom.

Oct 2008

3 Custom Option

This is the iChat 3 Status Messages Custom Edit point.

The Status Messages can be changed.

Choosing the Custom Available or Away option shown in the first picture in this series will give you access to type a New Message. The one is the picture will be an Away Message. It will change your Status to whichever Custom choice you select.

If you have chosen the Save Messages option in the Edit pane (Previous Picture) then this will also be saved otherwise it will only last while you have it showing or until iChat is Quit.

To be clear:- like most things with Apple there are two ways of doing this. The way this picture shows where you type straight in to the Text Field having selected it as "Custom in Picture one in the series. Or as in the last picture when you can Add a New Status Message at the Edit Screen.

Typing the keystroke equivalents of Smileys will display as those text symbols at your end but as Smileys at everyone else's end that can see you On-line. See also page 11 Status Messages

The Connection Doctor would seem to be the next sequence.

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

The Message area becomes a Text enry field if you select a "Custom" choice in the first pane/piture in this series.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September/October 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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