Text Chat

Use the Chat mode to exchange text messages with remote users.

Start Chat mode

1. On the General tab select Chat and double-click on a connection in your address book:

   Hint: Use the scrollbar on the right to reveal additional connection mode icons.

   
2. Enter the access password and click OK:
3. A chat window will open. Enter your message and click Send or press Enter.

Change nickname

To change your chat nickname:

1. Click the Settings icon ( ) at the top of the Text Chat window.
2. Deselect the Current user name as nickname option and enter a nickname:
3. Click OK.

Users and channels

There are two kinds of users a Chat mode window:

• —Administrators who enter the chat on the Viewer side. Administrators can initiate a chat session.
• —Regular users who enter the chat on the Host or Agent side.

Channels are one-to-one chat sessions with individual users. Each channel opens in a separate tab.

A special channel called #General allows to broadcast messages to all users:

To start a chat session with an individual user in the same Chat window, double-click the target user name in the list. A new tab with an individual chat session will open:

To close a specific channel (tab), select it and click the Close button at the bottom of the Chat window.

Mini-chat

A stripped-down version of the chat window called Mini-chat can be used on the Viewer side. See Full Control and View mode.