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===Send Chat Message=== | ===Send Chat Message=== | ||
:Type your message in the bottom field of Chat | :Type your message in the bottom field of Chat | ||
* Hit return | |||
:Here '''Testing Chat''' is the message | :Here '''Testing Chat''' is the message | ||
:Note that the User's Avitar name is displayed on the line before the message | :Note that the User's Avitar name is displayed on the line before the message | ||
:In this case '''Tris5-sugar: Testing Chat''' | :In this case '''Tris5-sugar: Testing Chat''' | ||
:This becomes useful if several other users join the chat | :This becomes useful if several other users join the chat | ||
===Use emoticons in your chat=== | ===Use emoticons in your chat=== | ||
[[File:Chat_Activity_emoticon_drop_down.png|500px]] | [[File:Chat_Activity_emoticon_drop_down.png|500px]] | ||
Revision as of 12:22, 15 December 2011
- Under Construction --Satellit 09:20, 15 December 2011 (EST)
How to Use Chat
Boot Sugar
- The Home (or f3) Screen appears
- The Chat icon
is on right side of the Spiral of Activities
Start Chat
- Click on the Chat Icon
Send Chat Message
- Type your message in the bottom field of Chat
- Hit return
- Here Testing Chat is the message
- Note that the User's Avitar name is displayed on the line before the message
- In this case Tris5-sugar: Testing Chat
- This becomes useful if several other users join the chat
Use emoticons in your chat
- hit return
- Click
in the drop down
- You are now collaborating in a shared session
- This is an example of joining another users share chat
- Click in the frame or Hit F1 key and you switch to the Neighborhood View.
- move mouse pointer to center of window to retract frame.
- Join Chat
- View of Chat-Shared
- You can see your chat (yellow) and Other user's Chat in blue
- Other's user's color will match the colors of their XO Avitar
- It will not always be blue
- click on the white octagon icon with a black square in it, in the right top bar
- "Stop Ctrl+Q" appears in drop down menu
- Click on it
- You return to the Home (or f3) screen
Quitting Chat
- Not shared
- click on the white octagon icon with a black square in it, in the right top bar
- "Stop Ctrl+Q" appears in drop down menu
- Click on it
- You return to the Home (or f3) screen