TrueChat Help

Contents Commands How to add avatar lists (new) How to make rooms Privacy policy of registered accounts at OnChat™ and TrueChat

(1) Commands and shortcuts

Command	Description
/nickname nickname	changes your nickname
/fg color	changes the color the balloon text. Example Colors: blue, red, lightblue, lightgreen etc.
/bg color	changes the background color of the balloons
/nickcolor color	changes the color of your nickname
/throw	Allow you to throw a temporary link to the room. Usefull for showing people a website or a room. Usage: /throw or to throw a website: /throw http://www.truechat.com or to throw a truechat community: /throw username
New ! /private	Type /private to make the room invisible to popular rooms list. Everyone in the room must do so in order to make this work. Usefull if a few people want to share a private room without showing up in popular rooms. Remember everyone must type /private shortly after they enter the room.
New ! /ignore	Whisper to the user you want to ignore. Then type /ignore. The user will be ignored.
/flip	Flips your avatar from left to right. Lets u face the person you're talking to -)
/a sentence	If you are in whisper mode, typing ex: /a sentence, will make you speak to all for just that sentence. This is great for switching between whisper and talking to the whole room.

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(2)How to add Avatar Lists

There are 4 ways to add avatars:

a) Use your account on Avatar Exchange or OnChat™

b) Manually adding an index.txt file

c) Add your own web page with avatar images

d) Add a web page containing avatars that someone has shared.

 

a) Adding avatars using OnChat™'s booster membership

1. Open a premium account at OnChat™ or AvatarExchange to store your avatars.
2. Use the wizard in TrueChat's Avatar Browser Window to add the avatars from OnChat™.
3. OR add your avatarcollections into the TrueChat client from AvatarExchange.com

b) Manually adding an index.txt file

1. First upload your avatars to a web server. There are several free ones, including http://geocities.yahoo.com.
2. The avatar images have to be at most 120X120 (width X height) and less than 5Kb in size. The images must be in gif or jpeg format and can have transparency.
3. Create a file called index.txt in the same directory as the avatar images. The index.txt file should contain a list of all the avatar images in the directory with one avatar image listed per line.
4. Make a note of the url of the index.txt file, for example, http://geocities.yahoo.com/me/index.txt
5. Click on the "Add" Button of the Avatar Browser Window. Give the list a name and enter the url of the index file . That's it !

   Example of contents of index.txt :

   foo.gif
   myavatar.gif
   another_avatar.gif
   ....
   

   Make sure that the images listed are in the same directory as the index.txt file.

c) Adding a html file that contains avatar images

If you have web pages with your avatars on them, you can add them with this method. Webrings or avatar pages can be added easily. Click here for some cool avatar pages built by our members.

1. First upload your avatars to a web server. There are several free ones, including http://geocities.yahoo.com.
2. The avatar images have to be at most 120X120 (width X height) and less than 5Kb in size. The images must be in gif or jpeg format and can have transparency.
3. Create a web page or html file in the same directory as the avatar images. This html file should display all the avatars in that directory.
4. Make a note of the url of the web page (html file ) , for example, http://geocities.yahoo.com/me/male_avatars.html . You should be able to pointer your Web browser to this URL and see the avatars.
5. Click on the "Add" Button of the Avatar Browser Window. Give the list a name and enter the url of the web page . That's it !

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(3) How to add rooms to your TrueChat account

Again there are two ways to add your own rooms to your account, the easy way using OnChat™'s premium membership or an account at the upcoming AvatarExchange.com, or the manual way which is slightly more difficult.

a) Easy method of making rooms

1. Open a premium account at OnChat™ or AvatarExchange.com.
2. Use the wizard in TrueChat's Room Browser Window to add your rooms from OnChat™ to the TrueChat world. That's it !
3. OR use the Image url in AvatarExchange.com to add rooms to the Room Browser Window

Notes:

1. Important: There might be a slight delay when you import your rooms to TrueChat (up to 2 minutes). Please be patient as there is quite a bit of data to be moved. If the TrueChat application jams up, don't worry, just restart TrueChat and go the the Room Browser to see if your rooms have been imported. Look under the "My Rooms and Bookmarks" heading in the first pane.
2. Don't worry about overwriting your existing rooms in TrueChat. The client makes sure that existing rooms in your TrueChat account are not overwritten with the imported OnChat™ rooms.
3. If you delete the rooms in your OnChat™ account, they will no longer be available in TrueChat as well.
4. All premium OnChat™ members (booster) will automatically become members of www.avatarexchange.com. AvatarExchange.com is being constructed and its service will be available soon.

 

b) Manual method of making rooms

1. First upload your room image to a web server. There are several free ones, including http://geocities.yahoo.com.
2. The room images have to be at most 640 X 480 (preferably 540 X 385) (width X height) and smaller than 35Kb in size. The images must be in gif or jpeg format.
3. Make a note of the url of the image file, for example, http://geocities.yahoo.com/me/myroom.jpg
4. Click on the "Create Room" in the Room Browser Window.
5. A window called the Room Maker will pop up.
6. Enter the room image url and click "View". Alternatively, you can use one of the default images provided under the "url" button of the Room Maker window.
7. Give the room a name and description and click "Make Room". You're done !

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(4) Privacy at OnChat™ and TrueChat

Upon registering at OnChat™ or TrueChat servers, you will be prompted for your name and email address. Please supply your correct name and email address since we will use this to verify your identity if you should forget your password. We will not resell your name or email address. Other servers run by other organizations may have different privacy policies, please check with them.

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