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Chat Panel

In chat, they can geek either by selecting a nick from a menu

or by typing a few unique letters and hitting the TAB key

Sending Private Chat
To send a private message to a user, select their nickname from the Chat menu. To revert to public chat, select the Public Chat option.

You can also select the user with a ctrl-click on their video, or their entry in the participants list.

To send private chat without switching from your current mode( you may already be in private session with a different user, or just in public chat) , if you type the first characters of a users name in the chat input box, and then press the TAB key, the name will be completed with >> appended to it. This indicates that chat will be sent privately to that user. If you accidentally get an incorrect user name, you must press the ESC key - which will clear the entire input chat field and try again with more characters from the name of the intended recipient.

Filtering Unwanted Chat
Unwanted chat can be filtered in 2 ways.

1. Ctrl-Click on video or an entry in the participants list will display a contextual menu that enables you to filter or unfilter chat from specified users.

2. Alternatively, Cmd-K will display a dialog that enables you to add or delete user names from a list of filtered users.

Spelling Check
You can (optionally) have VChat perform spelling checks on your chat text as you type. Misspelled words are shown in red

To correct spelling errors, ctrl-click (or right-click) the missspelled-spelled word and make a selection from the menu

To enable/disable spell checking, simply click the check box at the bottom the chat window.

Logging Chat

VChat will log all chat (if selected in Preferences) to text files located in the folder ~/Library/Logs/VChat/ . The VChat folder is automatically created if it does not exist.

A separate log is maintained for each reflector you connect to. The name given to the log file is the name you have set for the reflector in the Reflectors window.

The logs may be viewed by selecting View Log Files in the VChat File menu. A standard file navigation dialog is shown and the selected log file will be opened with the standard MacOS X log viewing program Console.

You can use the Console application to delete unwanted logs or you can simply remove them by trashing them in the Finder.

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