Tutorials/Chatting with the Chat Activity

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

Click on the "happy face" icon on the top bar

A drop Down menu appears and you can click on any of the emoticons on it

hit return

the emoticon is added to your message

Share your Chat Session

Click in the drop down

You are now collaborating in a shared session

Joining a Shared Chat 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

Stop Shared Chat

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