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CHATZILLA 'HOW TO' FOR TTC

  • ** A work in progress ** hence not linked anywhere yet! --Pudgey 03:22, 8 January 2009 (PST)

What

Chatzilla is an add-on to enable IRC Chat for popular web-browser Firefox.

You can find more information about IRC and Toontown Central here.

The following guide assumes you have a Windows OS, which most people do have. If you have a different OS options see the Chatzilla FAQ.

Installing

You can download Chatzilla from:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16

Simply select the Add To Firefox button at the above link. Note that you will need to restart your browser after installing - this includes exiting the Quick Launch feature.

To open Chatzilla (once Firefox is reopened) Select Tools > Chatzilla from the top menu in the browser. You will find a new window opens - this is where you will do your chatting.

Tip: You can drag the edges of the window to make it a more convenient size.

Connecting

To connect to the server where TTC have their chatrooms simply type the following in the little entry line at the bottom of the chat window (this is called the "command line"):

/server irc.gamesurge.net

then press ENTER

The client (that is the fancy name for the chat window) will do a whole lot of things which flash past on the screen. You don't need to pay attention here, but if you are really curious you can scroll back up the window and read it all.

You now have two tabs at the bottom of the client window: one called *client* , and the other called the name of the server we connected to irc.gamesurge.net. But in order to actually chat to anyone we need to join a room where we can find other people. We can join any of the three official TTC chat rooms by typing any (or all) of the following in the command line at the bottom of any tab:

  • /join #toontowncentral
  • /join #coldcallersguild
  • /join #toontowntrivia

What am I looking at?

When you join a chat room you will see another tabbed window open in the client and in this window we have:

Left side - a list of names ("Nicks" or nicknames) of the people in the channel

Right side (top) - a summary of the channel name and details such as the topic of the channel and some technical details

Right side (bottom) - the actual chat window (you knew we would get there eventually ) with some text about the channel showing, which you don't need to worry too much about. This is where you can write things in the command line and see them appear. yay.

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