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MELANGE USER GUIDE 1.10 - INDEX |

FAQ

    Q: Why can't i drag the client's scrollbar to the bottom end of the bar ?

    A: This depence on your browser. Some browser do no show the state of the scrollbar
    correctly, but never mind, even if the scrollbar seems not to be at the end of the
    text, it is at the end !

    Q: I installed one of this "real-time" clients, but they do not display anything.

    A: Make sure the "system-messages" feature is enabled. Use /ADMIN sysmsg on or the configfile
    parameter SYSMSG to do so. This parameter MUST be enabled if these clients should work

    Q: Why can't i change the font size of my client ?

    A: This is again a problem with your browser. Some browser do not support all of
    the font sizes correctly.

    Q: Is it possible to log the sessions ?

    A: With melange 1.10 it's now possible to log every message which is sent to the server.
    Use the MSGLOGFILE parameter in the configfile. (in older releases, you could use
    loglevel 4 to log the sessions, but then you got every message, including systemessages,
    commands. server status messages and other garbage.) The additional new logfile
    only logs messages, and if a user connected or disconnected to the server,
    including date, time, channelname, line and username. If you need other kind
    of logging (eg. a logfile/channel or smthg.) please edit the sourcecode yourself, cause
    there is no code which satisfys all people's needs. (or use the grep command !)

    Q: Why do I get a strange "security error warning" when I'm using the javaclient and
    trying to connect to the server ?

    OR

    Q: Why does the chatclient not connect to the server ?

    A: Due to the JAVA-security restrictions, JavaApplets (and the Melange client is an applet) are not
    allowed to open sockets (connections) to other host, than the localhost or back to the
    host where the webpage which includes the applet tag is comming from. This
    is a "feature" of the JAVA-sandbox-principe, which is to avoid attacks to your machines.
    So your server is more or less secure, but this takes also some disadvantages with it.
    In practise, this means, if you want to use the javaclient, you have to run melange on the webserver,
    where the HTML-pages with the applet tags are in. Also all *.class files of
    the client have to be in the same directory as the the HTML-pages.

    Q: Which browsers have been tested with the client ?

    A: For a list ot tested browsers, go to this page.

    Do YOU have a question ? - Mail to: chris@terminal.at !

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