Text Chat

Jin Jianxiang and Konrad Olszewski


TANGO Interactive text chat is a no-frill, down-to-business chat tool for professional use. It supports a number of productivity features, rarely seen in recreational chats.

The messages you type in the input line are normally distributed to all mebers of the session. The person joining the existing session will automatically receive full chat history up to this point. So, the chat supports latecomers.

All messages are time stamped. Time stamps are displayed if you put mouse cursor over the message.

The entire chat session can be saved to a local file by each session participant, or it can be mailed to an e-mail address (TBD). This is important for professional or business sessions, as it provides support for self-documenting process. Use File menu to save or e-mail chat contents.

The chat supports system clipboard, The messages can be copied from the chat window  to any application. Clipboard contents from other applications can be pasted into the chat and sent to all session participants. Use Edit menu to Copy and Paste. In addition, Edit menu support "Clear" operation and "TimaMark" operation. "Clear" operation only affects the display, not chat history. "TimeMark" option inserts a time mark into the stream of messages

Font menu allows to modify chat window appearance.

The Options menu supports follwing operations:

Right-clicking a user name in the right-hand panel brings up a pop-up menu with the following options:

Type-in line options:

Administrative options:


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