World: r3wp

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

Just chatting;  Did a security update of the Debian 2.6.18 kernel. 
 (One of the rare tmes where a reboot is good thing.)  This is on 
Dev an old 256 mb Compaq that I run at 0% free memory most days. 
 After the reboot the disk wouldn't stop grinding.  Every move was 
a disk grind.  Start looking through the optimization params.  All 
lookin' good.  Then I realized that I forgot to put Altme back to 
a reasonable number of chat entries.  (I had it cranked to 6 hundred 
to get search to display an old entry).  Back to normal once I set 
Altme back to 1 hundred messages per.  :)  Chatting over.

for Info: To use Altme behind a proxy is use 2 linked apps: "Proxifier" 
to force Altme to use a proxy and "HTTP Tunnel" to bypass the local 
restrictions of the company's proxy.

AltMe does work via proxy, no? The problem is world lookup feautre, 
which requires certain port to be opened on FW IIRC.

no as far i know (i've done many test) Altme dosn't work behind a 
proxy

even if the right ports are open

it's said on www.altme.com

i precise, a proxy which use user/pass authentification

hmm, I am behind proxy right now ... well, no authentication though 
....

http://www.altme.com/faq.html#5153632

Maybe it's stupid question, but how to change Altme password?

sorry... already found it:

To change your password, just right click on your name in the user 
list. Enter your new password, then confirm your password by entering 
it again in the popup. Your password will be changed.

A summary of a message I tried to post to the Mailing List, but the 
ML is a little wonky just now:

ALTME ARCHIVE SEARCH

You may remember that some months ago we added the archives of some 
Altme worlds to REBOL.org...
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/aga-index.r
...and said that a search feature was coming soon.

It did not come soon enough but it is there now:
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/aga-search.r

Enjoy using it, and please tell me the bugs you find.

I want to have W2K automatically start my worlds.  Can anyone tell 
me how to do this? (please list all steps if possible. Assume I am 
an idiot, because I am)

Are you meaning you want the worlds you host to auto-start?  If so, 
simply create a shortcut in your startup folder with the taget field 
equal to;

<path to altme> -s "<worldname>" -p 54xx         ; where -p is a 
port number 5400, increment by 1 for each additional world.  Use 
Safeworlds World Check feature to find out what port your world is 
assigned to  http://www.altme.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi, but your world 
must be started for the World Check feature to return the port it 
has registered for the word being checking.