Chat With Us: Notes on Use

Connect Click on the first icon (far left) to connect. A popup menu will appear. In there you enter the nickname you want to use, and for Room, enter #Crosswinds.

Disconnect To leave the chat room, please click the Disconnect icon in the top left corner. Otherwise your connection is still active and you will stay in the room.

Dock/Undock You can use the Dock/Undock icon to keep the applet open if you want to browse other web pages while staying in the chat room.

Say To send your text to the room, enter it in the text area and hit Enter or click the Say button.

Whisper To send a private message to someone, highlight their nickname, enter your text in the text area and click the Whisper button.

Think To send text that looks like "Nickname thinks: your message here", enter your text in the text area and click the Think button.

Action To use the IRC equivilant of the /me command, enter your text in the text area and click the Action button.