CHAT!

[Denise Rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 6096

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Today, at 3pm eastern, we will be descending on yahoo (the home of the
original Hp For Grownups club, see link on the egroup's homepage) to have a
multi-colored very hilarious chat.  For examples of previous chats, see
LINKS section, and visit the Chatscripts egroup--that's where we store them.

>From what I could see of last weeks  chat (LOL, thanks Simon!), Simon spent
much time creating Quidditch macros, and posting them.  Of course, if you
don't have CheetaChat (www.cheetachat.com) they didn't make sense!  They
appear as just strange lines in yahoo-chat!

The advantage of using plain yahoo-chat is that you get to here peeves
(Jeremy) playing which the chat is going on via voice chat, something we
cheeta users cannot do :c( .

(To use Cheetachat, see instructions at the bottom of this posting)

No clue as to the subject today, all I know is that my cheetascript will be
running (that's how we save the chats and why I can't use regular yahoo
chat!), while I am housecleaning....  so there will be alot of afks (unless
this child of mine sleeps, lol, at 3?).

Thanks for reading!

Dee

(gypsycaine over at yahoo)

(Does someone have that list I posted of everyone's handles as they
translate to chat?  We might want to plop those on the chatscripts main
page....)

INSTRUCTIONS TO USE CHEETACHAT (CC for short).

1.  Download it!  :)  www.cheetachat.com
2.  Avatars are available via the same url (which are stuck in front of your
name to be cute on cc .  You have to register first, though...
3.  Install it.  Please see the site for requirements--it ran well on my
233, 32 meg cable connection (never used it on dialup--hate dialup!)
4.  Run it.  Use the yahoo alias you created.  (You did create a yahoo clubs
alias, right?  You didn't?  Argh.  Use this Url
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/harrypotterforgrownups and sign up NOW!  LOL.
Seriously if you aren't already at yahoo and a member of yahoo clubs, you'll
need to create a alias to use over there (good luck!) to join with, then
click JOIN THIS CLUB in the upper right hand of your screen.  Since you
don't have a yahoo-account, it'll send you (after you answer a few
questions) an email to confirm.  This email address is whatever you used to
create the yahoo account with.  This is the only time yahoo will do this to
you--all the next clubs will be instant-join!  Go check your email, and
click where it says to--you're a member!  If you did all this, please
postpone running cheeta until you finish!)
5.  When you come to a screen, ignore everyone on it.  (Trust me, it's safer
that way)  Look on the bar above the window--there are a few options that
might interest you.
    a.  ROOMS.  This is where you'll find Clubs!  And hence, HP4Gu listed!
(Since you DID join the club, right?)
    b.  It appears to be an artist palette.  It's a neat feature that lets
you blend colors for your chat-color.  I use shades of various tones, but
all within the same color (like faint red to a crimson red, or a deep hunter
green to a mint-green)  All I can say is play with it, and don't forget to
SAVE the one you like.
6.  You have a few frames on the screen itself.  The list of chatters, the
main chat screen, the little screen you type in to talk, a list of emotions
(blinks, burps, chuckles), and a list of macros.  Those are the same macros
I am talking about above where Simon created his Quidditch players.  They
are very kewl!
7.  Click on the HP4GU Room, and you should be transported to the
club-chat-room!
8.  To save the chat, under settings, preferences (or is that backwards?)
there is a screen where you can save up to a # of lines.  Change that to
unlimited (Advisable with our bunch--we've gone to 8 or 9 before!).  There
is a little diskette on the screen which allows you to save.  Rich Text
format (Rtf) is with all the blends, etc intact.  DO NOT CLICK THE GREEN
icky looking thing if you are saving--it clears both the "buffer" and the
screen.  (The buffer is where the words are being stored, sorta like a
clipboard on windows).

To leave, click log-out and disconnect.  Exploration will reveal other
interesting features, like text-to-speech reading (very kewl, but not for
me!) of the lines of certain individuals (like it'll speak out loud Neil's
postings as the Flying Ford Anglia!  :)

If by some chance when you go to get to the club, it doesn't list the clubs
under the ROOMS option, log out and log in again.  It's glitchy sometimes.
Just ask Rita?

D


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