World: r3wp

win xp pro

I tried but could not get a crash but maybe I misunderstand the protocal 

the "task bar".   what bar is this top of the altme window?  winrows 
task bar (typically at bottom of screen)
I have tried most everything I can think of 

the question might what graphics card/driver   virtual window manager 
 ...

I believe he is talking about the Windows task bar at the bottom 
right of the screen on Windows XP Pro   I could not get it to crash 
or any other odd behaviour and am also on XP Pro

crashes here too. just dragged the task bar size (remember to unlock 
the taskbar!) to maximum size so it takes up half the screen and 
presto, AltME   crashes.

I can replicate what Henrik describes. Using Win XP.

I can't seem to make it happen.

Having the TaskBar on teh right side is odd as an interface...

perhaps AltMe needs to be maximized?

I use the win2k skin.

I only have AltME (and all my windows) maxed.  Win2K skin, hmmmm...

no crash here (XP) with much fiddeling with windows and taskbars 
..

I've got some strange problem, Ican't see what I type in AltME. I'm 
able to send messages, but the area still remains empty. Never seen 
that before.

Check colour.

My next post is white-on-white:

White on white

You can see the text by pressing the colour-icon next to the AA icon.

jljkGeomol it's not a color problem, even the cursor does not move. 
I've got empty area but now I'm going to press CTRL+S and it will 
be send (and I hope without errors as I can't see what I type :)

If I type something but do not send it, and switch to different channel, 
the text in area is shown

So I've restarted my machne and it works again. Very very strange.

I just thought of a feature that a future version of Altme may want 
to look into, sub-texts.  I have an urge to make stupid off-topic 
comments sometimes, but also have a respect for keeping forums on 
track for the greater good and use of important time.  Perhaps some 
furture version could have a trigger or formatiing option for 'invisible' 
sub-text, only seen if requested.  Then we could make off-topic friendly 
comments without too much worry about disturbing serious discussion 
threads, while keeping said comments 'in the thread'.  Just thinking 
out loud.

Brian, To add to your thoughts... It would be nice to be able to 
highlight some portion of the message text and make that white-on-white, 
as a means to achive your goal.  Anyone could then view it, if they 
wanted to.  Right now, the white-on-white is for the entire text 
in the message instead of highlighted sub-text.

There has been hints and rumours of Rich Text capabilities for R3. 
 That would open up all kinds of possibilities for in message formatting 
in future Altme releases, umm assuming of course Altme is anything 
like it is today when/if an R3 port occurs.

Is there a way in ALTME to make all files not download when a user 
is outtside the firewall?

(to enforce this behaviour on outside IP addresses, I mean)

(something enforced, not part of user choice)

How do I change the font used in Altme?

I'm using the linux version, btw

You can only set big or small font. There is an icon for that next 
to the pencil in the little toolbar above the writing area.

O, that's better than nothing. Since I installed the mscorefonts 
package on ubuntu, default fonts have changed and are less than  
desirable.

Thanks, Henrik.

How do I copy and paste in the linux version of Altme? Seems there 
is no righ-click in that version, and Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V don't work 
neither

From my experience on Ubuntu, there is not way to cut and paste or 
to click on an http link and launch the page in a browser.

ctrl-c + middle-button click to paste .... It works for me under 
kubuntu

I use XP and Mandriva and just use wine to run the XP Altme and it 
works just like on XP

Thanks Peter, Frank and Alan. I'm switching to the wine version as 
well, it is fully featured, the linux version is not. I'm beffudled, 
I expected Altme to be corss-platform as Rebol is.

well, the Linux version is as fully featured as the Windows version. 
it's X11 that causes the problems, having an inconsistent copy/paste 
system.

DanielSz: http://www.rebol.com/article/0260.html<--- perhaps this 
is an interesting read

Thanks for the link; Henrilk

I read it.I don't see the connection, it relates to rebol builds 
on linux.

Furthermore, copy and paste works flawlessly on Rebol/view on linux. 
It's Altme that cannot copy and paste.

As for features missing on linux, pertaining to Altme: copy and paste, 
past link to clipboard, launch url in browser. All these things don't 
work on my ubuntu setup with the Altme beta for linux.

linux version of altme is older than the windows one. anyway, i use 
wine too, it's easier at this point.

I hope we will be able to put different color flag in front of every 
msg in AltME. I would like to mark msgs as "important", "to answer", 
"to do" ...

I've just managed to log in with the linux version running on Kubuntu.

I did this to get it to work:

- installed the missing libstdc++.so.5 using Adept package manager

- copied the entire Altme directory from WinXP to Kubuntu, to a directory 
in my home directory, using rsync

- renamed mods/ directory to old-winxp-mods/ (I think the mod files 
I collected while in WinXP don't apply to the linux version)
That's it. Here I am with all the old messages.

Re-installed on a fresh box and only see messages in 5 groups.... 
what was the trick to make Altme sync?

sometimes logging off and back on a few times helps

Nope, it didn't

to post something to such a group. Ppl mostly posted dot, to not 
distract too much .....

That's all the tricks I know :-(

Other than to log on as a Guest then back on as yourself......But 
this world has no guest account.

The same trick may work if you have two personal accounts (say Maarten 
and Maarten2). Not sure if the Admins will issue a 2nd account even 
if you have a business case.
To see groups that may need resyncing:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/aga-groups-index.r?world=r3wp