Comments on: Chax 1.4

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:29:48 +0000

I should clarify:

The current behavior is the red X in the top left closes only the active tab, not the entire window.

This is inconsistent with other apps that use tabs (IE, Safari)

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:28:07 +0000

Awesome!…but two minor issues.

If you don’t have “disable close buttons on tabs” checked, wouldn’t it be more logical to have those buttons close each tab, and the red X in the top left of the window close the entire window — regardless if there are tabbed chats in there?

I think this behavior is more consistent with OS X.

Also, shouldn’t the contact list resize automatically when expanding/collapsing groups? — Mine doesn’t seem to do this.

By: Dan Friml

Dan Friml — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:40:14 +0000

Thanks for this great plugin, donation will be done next week! Anyway, I found one problem with log viewer. I can’t access some logs by right click/View Logs. Some of my buddies in my address book have their names with diacritic marks (like: Ä›Å¡ÄÅ™Å¾Ã½Ã¡ÃÃ©) and I noticed that this problem is always in this case… Would it be possible to fix this problem?

By: jordan

jordan — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:02:50 +0000

my ichat with chax just went crazy…. the window goes insane… the bab on the bottom grows and takes over the entire windown.. then the white part where the text goes takes over the entire windown, then the entire window turns solid silver… i still recieve and send messages and others get it … I just can’t see what I am sending/ recieving…. to fix the only way was to uninstall chax and then reinstall it..

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:27:00 +0000

I didn’t read above what people said, so if something is repeated, then concider it a popular opinion

Anyhow, I REALLY appreciate all that you do for iChat to make it a great chat client!

If you didn’t already know, Dave Hamilton, the CEO of the online publication “The Mac Observer” is a very big fan of your plugin. He mentions it on his podcast “The Mac Geek Gab” almost every time the topic of iChat comes up. His and my favorite feature as of yet is the tabbed chatting.

On to my ideas. First I would like to state that I have dabbled in all sorts of programming and such and I completely understand how difficult your tasks of iChat improvements have been to develop. I speak for a lot of people when I say that I very much appreciate everything you do.

My ideas are for the tabbed chatting.

Now, when I think of tabbed chatting, I think of how it works in Safari. Now if you don’t already know how it works in Safari, tabbed pages can be spread through several different windows. New windows can be created seperate of other windows that do or don’t have tabs already in them. I’d like the ability of separate chat windows with separate tabs.

Another Idea is that I’d like, at least as an option, for new chats to pop up as they would normally instead of appearing in a tab. Even the option to possibly drag the new window into a tabbed chat would be great.

Once again, I understand that these things take time and you may even be working on these things as I sit here, but just in case you were wondering, I think this is what a lot of people would like.

So thanks a lot, and I wish you luck in further development of this great program!