Applications

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Grid, Player, IM, Games, Doodle, Groups, Smilies and Translate are applications found on tabs on the left of chat group pages. They can be activated and used while chatting with your friends. This Guide will help you get started with applications.

[edit] Grid

The grid allows you to view the avatars of all users who aren't using a xat default avatar or smilie for an avatar. If you click their avatar you will go to their xatspace, if you mouse-over their avatar and click their name you will see their user details on the chat.

[edit] Player

Using the YouTube player you can watch videos while you chat. When you start the player you can click the Link button and watch a video alone, or if you're a moderator/owner click Broadcast and the video will be sent to all users on the player, unless they have the no broadcast (key) button. The player can play videos from Youtube, Veoh, Yahoo Live, and Myspace video, as well as display Photobucket pictures.

[edit] IM

Using xat IM, you can talk to your AIM and MSN friends while on the chat. To find them, go to your xat Friends List and click their name and click Private Chat. Note you can not block, add people, or join in group convos while on xat IM.

[edit] Games

Play games with friends on xat! You can find the games on the left hand side of your chat box below the im feature. Games include Chess, Pool, Smilie Shooter, and 4 in a row. For details on games, see Games.

[edit] Doodle

Using doodle you can draw with everyone in the chat who is also using doodle. If you Private Chat people you can draw with them alone. Good for playing tic tac toe!

You can also import images from Photobucket into Doodle with the Dood power. See powers for details.

[edit] xat Universe (Groups)

The xat universe shows a live view of the public chat groups on xat with users on them. To visit a chat group click on its planet, you can navigate around by clicking on empty space and zoom in and out by clicking on the magnifying glass and moving it up and down.

[edit] Smilies

Click the smilies tab to view the complete list of all of the avalible smilies. You can click one and it will put it into the chat box for you.

[edit] Effetcs

Clicking your name and clicking "Add Effects" under your picture link will allow you to add cool animated effects to any picture (not counting the "toon" pictures). Below are all available effects and what they do:

• BOUNCE

Bounce makes a smilie "bounce" around your avatar.

• LED

LED lets you write a message to go across your avatar with LED lighted-effects. You can also change the color of the LED lights.

• BEAMS

Beams makes search-light style beams go on your picture.

• BLOOD

Blood makes blood fall down your picture. You can also set the color of the blood.

• EQU

Equ makes DJ-styled bars go on your avatar.

• GLITTER

Glitter allows you to add glitters to your avatar, for an extra shine effect.

• HEARTS

Hearts makes balloon-hearts go up in your pic.

• LIPS

Lips makes kissy-lips go on your picture. You can change the lips to any smilie you like.

• UP

Up makes smilies go up in your picture. You can use any smilie.

• DOWN

Down makes smilies go down your picture. You can use any smilie.

• WALK

Walk makes a smilie "walk" along the edge of your picture.

• SNOW

Snow makes snowflakes fall to the bottom of your picture, and snow build up and eventually break. You can use any smilie and snow color.

• XMAS

Xmas adds christmas lights to your picture.

[edit] Trading

To open the xat Trade Engine, either type "Trade" in the chat and click on it or click someones name and click Transfer, then click "Trade" . You can use the trade engine to trade subscriber days, xats, and/or powers amongst users. For more information on trade, please see the Trading article.

[edit] Translate

Translate allows you to translate your language to a different language. Set your, "Chat Language" to Auto-Detect Language, set, "Your Language" to whatever language you speak and set,"Speak In" to whatever language that you want it to be translated in. It's used to help people with all sorts of interesting stuff like telling people it's an, "English Only" chat, etc.

[edit] Webcam

The webcam feature is a new innovation added to xat, it allows you to use video chat or voice chat with the person in your private chat. To Use the webcam feature, simply pc the person and make sure the other person is in the pc with you and press either "Voice call" or "Voice Chat". Once you see the text "Incoming call" Simply press the Blue Button (Video camera icon) or the Green Button (Telephone Icon). Once you see the text "Call Established" in the lower bottom, You can now go to the main chat and move off the pc tab and still be streaming your voice/video to the person you can webcam'ing with.

[edit] Frequently Asked Questions about webcam

• What is Allow xat.com to access your webcam?

Generally if you access webcam for first time, you will get a prompt to allow xat.com to access your webcam and microphone. Click okay to allow xat.com to access your webcam, This is required to use the webcam functions and to voice/video call with your friends.

• What is vrx?

Vrx stands for Video Recieve, If this is checked, this means you will see the other person on webcam, if its unchecked you will not see their video.

• What does VTX stand for?

VTX stands for Video Transmit and it's used to change the video quality of the video. You can re-arrange it to make it look blurry or you can make it look clear. By unchecking the box which is above the slider it, it won't show anything. It will show just a black box instead. The lower the slider is, the faster the webcam performance will be, but the quality will be lowered by a bit. The higher the slider is, the sharper the picture will be. You wont see any quality change, only the person you can using the webcam with will. If you are capped to a certain amount of bandwidth with your ISP(internet service provider), Your frame rate will be slow, the frame rate is how many times per second the picture will update. You will need to adjust the VTX slider until it is adjusted for your usage.

• How do i use the Mic?

Mic stands for Microphone and it's used to change the volume. You can use the slider to change it from loud to quiet. By unchecking the box which is above the slider it, it will turn the volume off. Above it, it says SPK which stands for Speaker. It's used to change the volume of the person that's using the microphone. By unchecking the box, you won't be able to hear any sound from the person that's using the mic.

• I am recieving feedback e.g a loud squeaking sound through my speakers.

Adjust your computer speakers to low volume and your microphone to low volume, the feedback should be fine now.

• How do i change Audio Codec/Quality?

To change the audio quality/codec, Click the settings tab on the bottom, this will open a new iframe window. Once you have opened it up, In the 3rd dropdown area, there are 2 codecs. Speex and Nollymoser, The Higher the Q or the higher the frequency, the better the audio quality is.

• I am watching my friend on video chat and I get loud feedback!

Most of the times, you will experience feedback issues with watching someone on webcam/voice chat with them, To solve this issue try lowering the Mic slider lower until it stops feedback. If this doesnt solve it, Try lowering your computer speakers as well.

[edit] Common error messages

• Not on Private Chat

It shows the person is not in PC you right now. The person didn't exit out the window but switched to main instead.

• Incoming Video Call

It shows that the person either wants to use the webcam or the microphone. You can click on the green button or the blue button to accept the invitation but you don't have to use a webcam or microphone in order to see the person using a webcam/microphone.

• More errors will be entered in here soon!

[edit] xat Live

The Live panel lets you manage messages sent while your chat is on Live mode. For more information on this, please refer to the Live article.