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The whiteboard accepts any fonts you may have installed on your system. To
use a certain font (except for three standard ones), you just import it to make it available. But you must
be sure that the machines you communicate with also have this font
installed on their system, or they'll be unhappy.
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| Non Western
Character Sets |
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An additional example of "foreign" character sets that is perhaps more
useful for some. Since I don't know the first two languages, nor their
character sets, I just typed some random keys. This works transparently
between clients due to the UTF-8 character encoding used universally.
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| Chat
Dialog |
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Standard two person text chat. Indicator when
respondent is typing a reply. Popup menu palette for smilyes.
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| Emoticon Sets |
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Supports addon emoticon sets. Prepackaged with several sets.
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| Standard Chat
Rooms |
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There is also support of ordinary one-to-one chats, and chat
rooms, like the one below. This way you may communicate with non-whiteboard
clients, and non-jabber clients. Screen shot from Mac OS X.
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| Plugin Import
Architecture |
| The Whiteboard uses a flexible plugin architecture for
importing MIME types into the drawing canvas. Each import plugin
registers which MIME types it is capable of handling, and supplies a Tcl
procedure for canvas display. The user may configure which plugin to use
for each MIME type, and various other handling issues, just how it works
in any web browser. |
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| Fast starting
movie download |
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Progressive download of mp3's and other movies
using QuickTime on Mac and Windows. Start playing just after download has
started. No need to wait for the complete download to finish before
playing.
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| Inbox for
incoming messages and automatic smiley parsing |
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Inbox for messages, just as any email client. This gives
compatibility with any Jabber complient messenger, and provides a way to
send non-whiteboard text to other Coccinellas.
Smileys in the text
content, such as :) and :cool:, will be automatically transformed to a
corresponding icon. There are about 60 smiley icons, see legend.
Copyright ©2001 Greg Fleming of Dark Project Studios.
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| Send Message |
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Send text messages to any Jabber user, and to other Instant
Messaging systems. Smiley icons are automatically parsed to icons if sent
to another Coccinella.
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| ICQ and MS
Messenger |
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Collect your contacts from other IM systems, like ICQ and
Messenger in this example. You must already have your own account on the
other system to use as a transport mechanism. You register in the Browse
window using your foreign account, and then any present users in your
contact list will show up here. In this example my own accounts are placed
in the Transport section automatically.
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| Play Chess |
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Play chess in a whiteboard chat window.
Currently as of version 0.95.1, there are chinese checker, draughts as well.
(See also below)
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Applets written in IncrTcl (an OO version of Tcl) can be imported into
the whiteboard. The very first example is playing cards as shown here.
An Itcl script is opened by one user, transported and imported by the chat partner.
This works precisely like any other file being used, audio, video, document etc.
The necessary part is an Itcl importer provided with version 0.95.0 and later,
which provides the runtime environment for the applet scripts.
A playing card stack is opened from the Library/Games menu. Cards are picked by each user by
dragging the point tool over the card stack. Cards shown as halfes are visable only
for the user that picked them. Therefore each user must pick his or hers own
card from the stack as this is the default state when a card is picked.
A pop menu enables any user to hide the card for everyone (backside), show it
to himself only (halfside each), or show it for everyone (completely visable).
More stuff like this is in preparation.
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| ICQ Chat |
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| MS Messenger Chat |
| Chat with your MS Messenger friends. |
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| Theming |
| Theming: set fonts, colors, and most icons and
graphical elements.
Themes are simple to define using resource files.
These examples for demonstration purpose only.
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| Search for
Users |
| When you have got an account on a Jabber server, you may register with its
User Directory, adding some personal information that is searchable by
other users. The search form is obtained dynamically from the service
that provides this capabaility, thus it is adapted to the type of
information that is registered by the same service. Cute!
This way you may find persons you are looking for, but where
you don't know their Jabber user id. Glad I'm not the only Mats (not
Mat) in the Jabber
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