Ralph Johns

These iChat (Version 1) pages are coloured Blue and have the iChat (1) icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from later ones by having the Running Man.  

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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03 Alerts/Actions Preferences

Oct 2008

3 Alerts/Actions Preferences

This is the Alerts/Action Preference pane for iChat (1)

This is where you can literally set the Whistles and Bells for iChat.

The Top drop down has a list of Events or Actions that can happen. You Logging In, a Buddy Logging In, an Invite arriving, a File Being sent, those sorts of things.

You can then chose a Sound in the second drop down. This second drop dwon includes souns from three places. The iChat sounds themselves are listed at the top. A second group will be those Sounds that are used by the System as Alerts. The third group if you have any are you own sounds stored in ~/Library/Sounds.

As you can see you can have it also speak a phrase. A default normally shows formost things but you can change them. If the @ symbol is present it will be read as the Buddy's name as you have them displayed in the Buddy List.

The volume you hear these at is controlled by System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effect tab and the Alert Volume

You can also make the icon for iChat in the DOCK bounce.

We follow this with the Privacy Prefernces.

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©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

Revised and Edited Links and Content with corrections and updates Nov 19th 2024.

Information Block

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

This 2024 Edit/Update does make some tense changes to the Contents but mostly it stands as written. The general purpose of the update was to move, as much as possible to HTML 5 compliance where I could.

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

This Information Block will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

Setting sounds to the actions iChat does when going about it's daily business. You can also make it speak a phrase and Bounce the DOCK icon.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) would only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.