Chat Help for Bucerias, Mexico public chat

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Establish Your Identity
On the Main Chat Window there are two boxes, Your Name and Your Profile. Enter your name in the first box and an optional profile in the second box. Your profile can include links to Web pages in the form http://www.your .com and links to e-mail addresses in the form mailto:name@address.com.

Enter a Chat Room
Click a room name to see the list of people in the room. Click the Enter Room button to enter a room.

Start Chatting
Type your chat messages in the space at the bottom of the chat room window and press the Enter key to send your message.

Launch a Private Chat
Once you're in a chat room, double click a name to launch a private chat session with any visitor in the room.

Menu Items

Places (main chat window only)

Enter Room
Select this menu item to enter a chat room. The Enter Room button performs the same function.

Refresh Rooms
Select this menu item to refresh the list of chat rooms. The Refresh Rooms button performs the same function.

Exit
Select this menu item to disconnect from the server and close all applet windows.

Room (chat room window only)

Close
Select this menu item to close the chat room window.

Options

Font Name
Select this menu item to choose a font for the chat rooms.

Font Style
Select this menu item to choose Regular, Italic, Bold or Bold Italic font styles in the chat rooms.

Increase Font
Select this menu item to increase the size of the chat room fonts.

Decrease Font
Select this menu item to decrease the size of the chat room fonts.

Entrance Alerts
Select this menu item to display the name and profile of each person who enters a chat room. Select it again to turn off the feature.

Audio Alerts
Select this menu item to allow other people in the chat room to Ring you with an Audio Alert. Select it again to turn off the feature. Select both this menu item and the Entrance Alerts menu item to hear a sound each time a new person enters the chat room.

Show Count Changes
Select this menu item to have the room count displayed whenever someone enters or leaves the room. Select it again to turn off the feature.

Web Touring
Select this menu item to have Web addresses which appears in chat messages opened automatically in a Web browser window. Select it again to turn off the feature. When Web Touring, you must type in http:// before the URL.

People (chat room window only)

Ring name
To signal someone with a sound, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Ring, then select this menu item. The sound will be played only if the person you select has Audio Alerts enabled.

Ignore name
To Ignore someone, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Ignore, then select this menu item. All chat messages and private chat requests from that person will be ignored.

Unignore name
To Unignore someone you're ignoring, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Unignore, then select this menu item.

Count
Select this menu item to display the count of people in the room.

Help

Help Contents
Select this menu item to display this Web page.

About Bravenet Chat
Select this menu item to display information about the Bravenet Chat applet

What are Hot Keys?

Hot Keys are keys, that when pressed, will instantly paste a prewritten sentence (Hot Phrase) into the chat window. The function keys (F1, F2, F3 ... F12) are all Hot Keys.

Adding Names to the Hot Phrases

If the Hot Phrase contains a variable (see below) then you can type in a name and then hit the Hot Key and the name will be substituted in for the variable. If the Hot Phrase has two names, then type two names and then hit the Hot Key.

The Bravenet Chatroom service is a service written in Java, so if you wish to use this service you MUST have a Java capable and enabled web browser. Webtv users cannot use this service as their webtv units do not support Java at the time of this writing

1. I was told I have to have Java enabled in my Browser settings before I can use the Bravenet Chatrooms. How do I do that?

If you are using IE, make sure you have the Virtual Machine installed and switched on. (Tools >> Internet Options >> Advanced >> JIT Compiler for Virtual Machine enabled (put tick in here and restart your machine.

For Netscape, go to Edit >> Preferences >> Advanced >> Enable Java (put a tick here)

For Opera, ensure you have the Sun Opera Java engine installed.

2. How many people can be in the chat room at one time?
And if there is a limit, are other people that try to enter the chat room told that the room is full?

Your Chatroom has a maximum limit of 60 visitors and our Chat server has a limited number of simultaneous connections available. During peak times these connections can get used up. When this happens, visitors to your Chatroom will receive a notification that the Chatroom is full and to try again later.

There is a character limit of 200 per message. If you post more than 200 characters per message the chat session will close.

4.My chat room loads but all I see is a grey box when it's done loading. What's wrong with it?

If you get an error, or if the applet loads incorrectly, you should clear your browser cache, close your browser and try again. The problem is either with your browser, computer, or connection. (some times a reboot is necessary)

You must have a Java enabled browser and you can't be behind a proxy server or a firewall that has restricted Java. Your system administrator would have to enable that for you.

You can check your Java version and compatibility in the Chat compatibility page in the Bravenet Help Center.

F1	Hello (name here)! Welcome to the chat room.
F2	Hey (name here), where are you from?
F3	(name here), are you male or female, and how old are you?
F4	I'm going to use the ignore feature to ignore (name here).
F5	(name here), are you an Internet Junkie like me?
F6	Way to go (name here)!
F7	(name here), that's just hilarious! LOL
F8	Hey! Is anyone listening to me? :(
F9	Anyone got a good joke?
F10	Well people, I have to run. See you online! :)
F11	(name here 1) slaps (name here 2) around with a large trout. Heh heh
F12	Bravenet chat is the coolest chat on the Internet!