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CLChatGUI
*********
Welcome to the
CLChatGUI
, a full-featured GUI client to the
CLChatSystem
for
AmiTCP
. The
CLChatSystem
, which is
originally part of the
Connectline
BBS package, provides a
multoi-server, IRC-like chat system with multiple channels, private
messaging, operator privileges and more.
Within
Connectline
, also online user and
Hydra
file transfer
protocol chat user may join the chat. See the `CLChatServer
Documentation' for more information about
Connectline
.
Connecting
**********
Installation is fairly simply. Simply put the archive contents
somewhere on your harddisk. Note that you need
MUI 2.3
or better!
Before you can use
CLChatGUI
, you must connect to a chat server
running
CLChatD
.
When started,
CLChatGUI
will prompt you for a server name and a port
number to connect to.
If you are connected to a LAN, you should ask your network adminstrator
for both server name and port number.
If you are connected to the Internet, see ARCnet for a good choice of
servers to connect to.
You must also specify a
Nickname
and your
Realname
. The nickname
is a kind of username used within the chat system. It may be up to 15
byte long and must consist of letters, digits and the characters
.
and
_
. The realname is used for informational purposes only.
Note that the server may reject your connection attempt because the
entered nickname is invalid or already in use by another chat user.
Change your nick and retry the connection.
CLChatGUI keeps a history of the last servers you have connected to.
You may choose from the history by clicking on the popup button right
from the server name string gadget. The history is saved within the
configuration file.
Local chat
**********
If you start the client on a machine running the
CLChatServer
, it
will not connect using AmiTCP, but directly link to the chat server to
reduce overhead.
If you want to avoid this behaviour, e.g. for testing purposes, start
CLChatGUI
with the
TCPMode
keyword or specify the
TCPMode
tooltype.
Using CLChatGUI
***************
After connecting to the chat server, the main window opens. It
consists of a channel selection gadget, a topic gadget, the main output
window, your input string gadget and the user operation gadget group.
It also features a menu bar with several options and shortcuts for
server commands.
You send text to the chat server by simply entering it in the input
gadget. Commands are also send to the server by entering them in the
input gadget. You may want to use the
/HELP
command to learn about
available server commands. The input gadget is normally automatically
activated; if it is not, simply press
SPACE
to activate it. A
history of the last 100 lines entered is kept; you may use
Cursor/UP
or
Cursor/DOWN
for accessing entries in the history.
Changing channels is done by entering a new channel name in the channel
selection gadget. Note that the server will automatically create a
channel if it does not exist. Already existing channels may be selected
with the popup listview right of the channel gadget. The popup button
has a hidden keyboard shortcut
h
which opens the channel selection
listview.
If you have channel operator status, you may change the current
channel's topic by entering a new one in the topic gadget. The
contents of this gadget are automatically updated if someone else
changes the topic.
User operations
***************
The user listview displays all users currently logged into the chat
server and the name of the channel they are currently on. Users with
channel operator privilege are marked with a
@
, users with chat
operator privilege are marked with a
!
before the name.
Double clicking on an entry in the user listview requests a
/WHOIS
user command from the server. Pressing the
Dialog
button opens a
special so-called dialog window. A dialog window works much like the
main windows, but every text entered within a dialog window is send
directly as a private message to the user. Also, any incoming private
messages from this user are displayed in the dialog window and not the
main window. If the
Auto
checkbox is selected, a new dialog window
is created for the originator of every incoming private message.
If you have channel or chat operator privilege, you may also use the
OP
,
DEOP
and
KICK
buttons to perform the requested operation on
the selected user.
Via the
PING
button you can request a PING request from the selected
user. If the user is running the GUI client, too, you will eventually
receive a reply stating the round-tripe time from you to the remote
user. This is usefull for TCP connections only.
If you have a TCP connection, you may also use the
Send Files
option
to directly send files to the remote user; see FileTransfer for more
information about this operation.
Setting the
AWAY
checkmark causes the AWAY message to be printed, and
every private message to you will automatically respond with
Nick is
away (AWAY message).
Setup
*****
In the setup window, you may modify several operation attributes.
Autoconnect
will cause an automatic connection attempt each time
the
CLChatGUI
is started. Setting
Auto Reconnect
will cause
automatic reconnect attempts if the connections drops.
File Receive Path
specifies the path you want incoming CLFT
files to go (See FileTransfer.). Setting
Auto Receive
will start a
CLFT receive session without prompting you for confirmation.
Max. Number of Lines
specifies how many lines of incoming text
will be stored for the output listview.
You may log all or some of the chat server output to a log file; you may
individually select
Private
,
Server
or normal
Text
messages to be
stored in the log file.
The
Event Handling
checkboxes set the reaction of special events.
You may set
Deiconify
to automatically deiconify the application on
the given event, and
DisplayBeep
to just have the screen beep.
The message section allows you to specify standard texts send to the
chat for given operations. The
AWAY
message is set when you select
the
AWAY
checkbox in the main window, the
BACK
message is send
when you clear the checkbox. The
KICK
message is a default kick
reason if you kick users using the
KICK
button below the user
listview.
You may create several different configuration files using the
Save...
and
Load...
items from the menu bar. If you create
icons for the configurations, you can start
CLChatGUI
by simply
doubly clicking on the configuration icon.
FileTransfer
************
If you connect via AmiTCP, you may also use the
CLFT
protocol to
directly send files to users linked to the chat network (comparable to
the IRC `DCC protocol'). Simply select the user you want to send to,
press the
Send files
button and a filerequester will open. You can
also directly drop Workbench icons onto the user listview to have the
correspondending files to be send to the currently selected user. If
you have dialog windows open, you may also directly send files by
dropping Workbench icons onto the dialog window.
When you have selected files, a
CLFT
request will be send to the
remote user, and the
CLFT
sender window will open on your side,
awaiting a connect from the receiving site. The receiver will then
eventually connect to you via TCP and grab the files offered to him.
If you receive incoming
CLFT
requests, a requester will open showing
you the originator of the request, the number of files to be send and a
list of the files to be transfered. You may accept or reject the
request, or you may change to destination directory. Use the
Setup window to change the default path in which incoming files are
stored. If you have
Auto Receive
set, no prompt will appear, but
receiving will start immediately.
Incoming files are tagged with a filenote designating the originator
nick and IP address for later identification. If an equally named file
already exists, the file name is postpended with ".2", ".3" etc.
You may abort file transfers at any time by clicking on the close
gadget of the receive or send window. All transfers currently waiting
or in progress will automatically terminate if you quite
CLChatGUI
.
Note that you cannot send files to users which are connected via TelNet
or the Connectline ANSI client.
ARexx commands
**************
CLChatGUI
features an ARexx port. The port name is
CLCHATCLIENT.nr
, with
nr
starting at 1 and increasing for
every instance of the program started.
Besides the builtin MUI commands (see the `MUI User Guide'),
CLChatGUI
current features two commands:
SEND TEXT/F
Sends the given text string as it was entered in the input string
gadget. Note that you may also send server commands this way.
RECONNECT
Cause the
CLChatGUI
to reconnect to the current server.
Server Commands
***************
Below is a list of normally available server commands. Don't forget to
use the
/HELP
command to learn if your server supports a different
command set.
* /CHANNEL [name]
Join or create a channel
* /INFO [name]
Show all or specific channel
* /WHO
List users in channel
* /USERS
List all users in chat. Note that the output from this command is
silently interpreted by the client and not displayed in the output
window.
* /USERS S
List all users in chat together with the servers they are on
* /WHOIS nick
Show info about user
* /MSG nick msg
Send private msg to nick
* /NICK [nick]
View or change your nick
* /ME msg
Send action string
* /VERSION
Show server version
* /SERVERS
Show other servers connected to your local server
Operator only commands:
* /OP nick
Give operator state to nick
* /DEOP nick
Remove operator state from nick
* /TOPIC topic
Set topic of channel
* /KICK nick reason
Kick nick out of channel
There are also special
Chat operator commands
which are not visible
to the normal user or channel operator. Use the
/HELP
command to
obtain a list of chat operator commands directly from the server.
ARCnet
******
ARCnet
, the
Amiga Relay Chat Network
, is a Internet based
network of
CLChatServers
available for public usage. As the time of
writing, the following servers were connected to the network:
* anarchy.tue.schwaben.de
* clchat.shiny.it
* wade1.ab.umd.edu
* monet.nfinity.com
All servers run the
CLChatServer
on port 5555. All these servers are
online 24h/day.
Check out
http://monet.nfinity.com/arcnet/"
for up-to-date
information about the ArcNet server list.
Copyright
*********
The
CLChatSystem
(
CLChatServer
,
CLChatD
,
CLChatLink
and
CLChatGUI
) is (C) 1994-1995 Oliver Wagner, All Rights Reserved.
The package may be distributed freely as long as all files are
distributed as a whole archive and are not modified in any way.
CLChatGUI
is a MUI application. MUI is (C) 1993-95 Stefan
Stuntz.
AmiTCP
is (C) 1994-1995 NSDI Inc.
Please send bug-reports, suggestions and comments via E-Mail to
owagner@lsd.wupper.de
.
Updates are placed on
AmiNet
; they can also be downloaded via
anonymous FTP directly from
pluribus.wupper.de
. You can also check
out anonymous FTP at the servers listed in the ARCnet reference if they
have a better link to your host.
History
*******
Version 1.7
* Fixed a bug where small windows caused the the line formatter
to loop infinitely
* added
/SERVERS
command to server command menu
* default setting was saved to
ENVARC
only, so attempting to
load defaults without quitting caused the old defaults from
ENV
to be read in
Version 2.0
* added CLFT file transfer capability
* added
/USERS S
command to server command menu
* miscellaneous internal fixes & cleanup work
* now
TCPMode
can be used as a workbench icon tooltype, too
Version 2.1
* scroller now does not jump to the bottom when new entries are
appended if it not already was there.
* smoothed out removing of lines in the main listview.
* added
PING
option to test round trip time to another user.
Note that his works with the GUI client only!
* fixed workbench startup bug: always attempted to load the
executable itself as a settings file thus ignoring any
default settings in
ENV:
.
* added new option
Auto Reconnect
to automatically attempt
to reconnect if the server connections breaks down.
* nick changes are now tracked and correspondending dialog
windows are updated with the new nickname
* changed ping frequency back to 15s to reduce IP load
* miscellaneous internal fixes & cleanup work
Version 2.2 (internal)
Version 2.3
* smoothed out scroller handling a bit; will now jump to the
bottom on window resizes, and will jump as long as no more
than two lines are scrolled up
* file transfer tasks now run with priority 1 for maximum
performance
* added better icon created by `NEUMANN'
* minor speedup in listview display hook
* added missing cycle chain for option window
Version 2.4
* now activating any output window automatically actives the
correspondending input string gadget
Version 2.5
* fixed bug with lines > 255 chars to be corrupted upon listview
insertion
* fixed several types in texts
* now file transfer can be initiated by dropping icons onto a
dialog window
* will no longer change topic string gadget contents while user
is editing it
Version 2.6 (internal)
Version 2.7 (internal)
Version 2.8
* changed prefix entries to be more clearly
* fixed several hidden internal race conditions regarding CLFT
cleanup which could case enf-hits or visits to india
* option window is now a register group
* added CLFT auto receive option
* added logging capability
* added PING and SEND FILE buttons to the user dialog windows
* it is now possible to enter commands in the user dialog
windows
* added server history feature
* added AWAY feature
* added AWAY, BACK and KICK message configurability
* fixed topic gadget to always update when the window is
deactivated even if it is the active object
Version 2.9
* changed "««" within dialog window to "IN"
* fixed various problems with dialog window listview handling
(no proper flushing, no proper jump-to-bottom)
* now dialog windows will automatically be activated when
"DIALOG" is select for an user for whom a window already
exists
* removed AmiTCP dependancy due to time() from net.lib. Now has
it's own, even faster time() implementation using
timer.device's GetSysTime()
Version 2.11
* fixed word-wrap bug
* added "CLFT Auto Close Window" option
* several internal cleanups
Version 2.12 (not released)
* fixed CLFT Receive abort bug
* added internal text commands "/PING nick", "/QUERY nick",
"/AWAY <text>" and "/SEND nick" as shortcuts for the
equivalent GUI operations
Version 2.13
* fixed CLFT Receive accessing the wrong SocketBase
Version 2.14 (not released)
* added regular quit operation including a preference
definition for the default quit reason string if clchatgui is
closed by close gadget, rexx command or CX exchange. /QUIT
now causes CLChatGUI to terminate itself.
* added version query. Syntax is "/VERSION user", version
without any parameters get's send to the server as usal,
querying the server version.
* added proper error returns for wrong parameters with the
internal text commands.
* added Auto-Away capability, setting the user automatically
/AWAY after X minutes of inactivity.
* cleaned up User listview refresh. Now refreshes less
frequently and keeps the previous selection state upon list
changes. Now sorted alphabetically and by user state.
* the clft send file requester now no longer rejects icon files.
Version 2.15
* now quits with message "Changing Server" when changing server
using the "Change Server" menu item.
* updated the built-in default server list.
Version 2.16
* fixed auto-away timeout to not be reset by input done in
dialog windows.
Version 2.17
* Auto-Away has now a checkmark for turning it on/off.
* added auto away warning message.
* Added Auto-Unaway upon message entering.
* fixed options window cycle chain.
* added a reset handler to gracefully terminate the server link
upon CAA-reset.
* added Autojoin channel feature.
* fixed a bug in CLFT which caused file names which where
ERROR_OBJECT_IN_USE to be not bumped accordingly.
* now the CLFT process check MUI events more regularly, and
outputs current cps in the gauge display.
* no more AWAY respone for VERSION query replies.
Version 2.18 (Release Version of 2.17)
Version 2.19
* added support for private channels, including SetPriv/ClrPriv
buttons for channel and Allow/Disallow buttons for the user
listview.
* added VERSION request button to the user listview.
* the user listview buttons are now using the tiny MUI font.
* now dialog windows have a input string history, too.
* fixed automatic string gadget activation when clicking into
dialog windows.
Version 2.20
* fixed CLFT windows to properly open on the screen the main
window is on.
* added DCC support for IRC compatibility. Note that /DCC SEND
doesn't work correctly if no filename is specified on the
command line. Requires DCC.xxx.AS225.
* "Send files" from dialog windows didn't worked correctly.
* various internal fixes.
Version 2.21 (internal only)
Version 2.22
* added support for ircII formating codes: CTRL-B, CTRL-_ and
CTRL-V. You need to turn of Input Filtering in IControl Prefs
to use these.
* now, the CLFT incoming requester will also appear on the right
screen.
* CLFT send is now compatible with file requester
implementations which don't correctly return fr_NumArgs == 1
when only a single file is selected.
Version 2.23
* some internal cleanup (i.e. the main module is no longer
compiled with NOCONSTLIBBASE to save speed & size)
* now autounaway is only triggered by public messages. This
also fixes the bug that /AWAY doesn't work correctly when
autounaway is active.
Version 2.24
* now bums the nickname to "nick1", "nick2" etc. if nickname is
in use during login.
* small internal cleanups.
Version 2.25 (not released)
* stupid bug in AWAY loop protection fixed.
Version 2.26
* now /SEND can accept file names as well (e.g. "/SEND nick
ram:arc.lha").
* no longer crashes upon receiving ^C in TCPMode
Version 2.27
* removed now unnecessary /USERS request upon receiving
[LINK] or [UNLINK] messages.
* no longer crashes when trying to send something in the connect
window via the server command menu.
* now reacts on ^C in local mode as well.
* the "Auto-AWAY in 1 Minute" now also occurs in local mode.
Version 2.28 (not released)
* can now play a sound instead of simply beeping. Uses
sound.datatype, so can load everything you've got a data type
for.
Version 2.29
* fixed e-mail & http addresses in info requester.
Version 2.30
* fixed the default server list.
* added a default sound setting for OS 3.x machines.
* added a sample sound file courtesy of Sandro Catallo.
* recompiled with SAS/C 6.56.
* fixed some MUI3 stuff.
Index
*****
ARCnet ARCnet
ARexx commands ARexx commands
Connecting Connecting
Copyright Copyright
FileTransfer FileTransfer
History History
Local chat Connecting
Server Commands Server Commands
Setup Setup
User operations Using CLChatGUI
Using CLChatGUI Using CLChatGUI