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01 iChat menu.

Oct 2008

1 iChat Menu

This is the iChat 3 Application menu. Like all Applications it appears at the top in the Menu Bar next to the Apple icon top left.

The About option will display a simple window with the Version number on it.

The Preferences choice leads to the Preferences.

I have not known the Shop for iChat Products to lead anywhere despite there being products out there at the time and anyway, it disappears in iChat 4 anyway.

The Feedback option is a link to an Apple Page specifically about iChat. It has choices in drop downs for iChat Version and OS version as well as info about your set up for getting on to the Internet. Most important is a large free text area for your issue or "Wish List" stuff.

The next few options allow you to Log in and out of the various accounts (Screen Names) you have open. The wording changes whether you are Logged In or Out. If you don't have a Jabber ID it will not show here. The same for Bonjour and AIM accounts if it is not Enabled in the iChat Preferences > Accounts.

If you have more than one AIM compatible name or more than one Jabber ID then you can use the Switch Option to change between them and it will log you out of one and in to the other.
Further down you have the option to Hide all iChat Windows or all other application windows.

At the bottom is one place you can Quit iChat. The other is to click and hold the icon in the DOCK for the pop up menu.

The option some applications have to Quit the Application by using the Red button on a window does not work in iChat. In this Buddy List example (from iChat 4) it will hide the (any) Buddy List. If you Quit iChat now it will not display it the next time iChat Opens. Using the Red Button in a Chat window will end the Chat. iChat will remember where you last placed a window, except for the Incoming Invites, each time you Quit and Open iChat

The Next Menu towards the right is the File Menu.

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

About the Application Menu.

It describes the actions for the various items in the menu from finding out which version (sub versions can be important), to logging in and out of the various Buddy Lists and hiding the various wndows you might have Open, plus of course the actual Quit Button.

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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