Chatting: ICQ (part 4)

Windows/Alerts

Here you can:

• Play Sounds - whenever an event occurs, a sound will alert you.
• Contact List Popup - whenever an event occurs, the contact list window will come out.
• Response Dialog Popup - whenever an event occurs, a window asking your confirmation will come out.
• Auto Minimize - the contact list window will become an icon on your taskbar.
• Always On Top - the ICQ window remains on top of your other applications at all times.
• Status "Floating On" - you can display a small user icon on your desktop from which you can send and receive events or display your floating status.

ICQ Help

This is the ICQ Help window

The System button

If you click on the 'System' button on the ICQ contact list window (between users list and 'ICQ' main button) you will able to see this window:

Here you can:

Send ICQ Program To

Just type a valid e-mail address and press the 'Send' button.

Send WWPager Address To

All Internet users can send messages to you via ICQ even if they have not ICQ! They can send you a message with a web browser addressing it to your ICQ World Wide Pager Address (in the above example your pager address is http://wwp-mirabilis.com/11111111). To send your WWPager address to a friend, enter its email address into this field. Then press the 'Send' button.

History and Outbox

Here you can see all History of events, sent to you from the ICQ server.

Well, now let's see what things you can do by clicking on an user listed on your contact list. As soon as you click on an user a window will come out:

Here you can send a message, a file, a Web page address (URL), your contact list, an email message to the user selected. Then you can invite him to a new chat session or to an existing chat session. You can talk with more people at the same time. Once a chat consists of seven or more people, the chat session will automatically be displayed in IRC style. The IRC style is a commonly used form of chat dialog which displays the text of the conversation in the order that it was entered and shows each person’s name next to that person's entered text. If you send a ChatDirect request to an offline user, your request will be saved in the outbox and will be sent later when you and the user are both online. To invite a user to join an existing chat session you have 2 possibilities:

1. Click the user in your contact list and select 'Chat'. Then, in the 'Send Chat Request' dialog, click the 'Join Session' button and select the name of the chat session to which you want to invite the user.
2. Drag a user from your contact list to the chat window.

When you are chatting, you can press the 'Sleep' button to minimizes your chat dialog until your chat partner types something to you. When a user wants to kick another user from a chat he/she can initiate a kick user vote. The other partners in the chat will receive a kick user vote message. If the majority of the users confirm the request, the user will then be kicked off the chat. When you send a message a window will come out:

Send Message

If you press the 'Multiple Recipients' button you will be able to send a message to more than one recipient. In this case you will be able to see another little window on the right of the above window, where you can select recipients of message:

File

Here you can send a file to your friend.

Send URL

Send your Contact List

Send Email

Send Phone Call Request

Internet/Phone/Games

In the above example the user 11111111 has 2 programs installed: Microsoft NetMeeting and Netscape Conference. To see (and download) all supported programs, click on 'View List - Download'. So you will able to see this window:

When you click on an user in your contact list, you can do several things. You can also see further information about the user. Just click on 'Info':

So this window will come out:

Here you can see all information about your friend. Notice: the 'Address' window provide also your friend's local time.

Besides, when you click on an user you can set some options

These are available status:

Finally, you can choose which mouse button use: left or right. As default the right mouse button is setted, but in this case, when you press the left button a window will come out:

Where you can specify the button you prefer.