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01 Status Messages Access.

Oct 2008

1 Access Drop Down for Editting and Changing

This is the iChat 3 Status Messages Access point.

The Status Messages can be changed.

Clicking on the current Status Message will open this Drop down. The same Drop Down will appear from the Menu Bar Icon if you are using it.

There are two plain presets by default that read Avialable or Away and will change your blob from Green to Red or Red to Green depending on which way you are changing.

There is also a Custom option in either secion which gives you access to change the Message currently shown.

As you can see the Custom ones you make can be saved and chosen in the future.

You will also notice that my Away Message for when it is "Too late (for me) to Video" chat has the keystrokes or text equivilants of Smileys that will show as Smileys at the other end.

iChat 3 also offers you the choice to show what is playing in your iTunes if it is Running. Is it an Available option. You can not use it and show as Away. By default it shows Tune then Artist. However this Hint at MacOSXHints can allow you to change this as the purists claim it should be Aritist then Track. Anyhow the message will then change somewhat dynamically as the Tunes change.

An Applesript can be used in the same way to put up multiple phrases one after the other to achive a sort of Scrolling message

We will deal with Edits next

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Created with JAlbum 4.0.6

Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

Information Block

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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

This page is about how to get the Status Messages Panel to appear so that you can change the Status Message or potentially create a new one.

An AppleScript is used by the App to show what iTunes is playing. There is a link to show a way to change which Order the info is displayed

New Custom ones can be saved and when Keystrokes for Smilies are used they display as those Smilies at the other end.

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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