hi, Chriss, Colloquy has a "new connection" option in the file menu. The control to enter your server is indeed an edit combo. There is a checkbox there to "remember this connection. Also if you go to your connections window, each remembered connection is listed in it. If you go into the preferences with command-comma, you can set up the appearance of the interface, such as whether the connections window stays open, or whether your notices appear in a separate window.
HTH, and if you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask. I did see your message downstream about giving up, but thought I would post this just in case. Teresa on jul 5, 2011, at 7:05 pm, christopher-mark gilland wrote: when i first opened colloquy, i'm presented a dialog to put in my nick name. i did this, and hit vo+right arrow. eventually, i got a... what appears! to be combo box, of a list of i r c servers. i hit vo+space to drop the list down, at which point i was presented a list of preconfigured servers. i couldn't find any way to type in a server manually. it finally dawned on me, that maybe this is an edit! combo, not a combo box as voiceover's reporting. so, i tried instead of hitting vo+down arrow to open the box, just typing in a server address manually. so i typed gamebird.ehhh.us i left everything else completely alone, and hit connect. it let me in, but then, in the file menu of the menu bar, if i went to join channel, i again get a combo box or so it looks for the channels. when i vo+space on it to open it, then vo+down arrow, i get nothing, and if i just simply down arrow without the vo keys, it bwonks at me. i tried typing in manually a channel name that i darnwell know! is on this server, as i go up there on my windows machine with mirc with tirc ralph very regularly and it works flawlessly. i also tried just in case maybe the protocol wasn't set correctly and this server doesn't use i r c, i tried all the other ones in that combo box before connecting, but when i do, it won't let me connect, so it's obvious, i was correct in the first place. if i put irc dot before the address, ie: irc.gamebird.ehhh.us, it won't connect at all. i'm using the standard port 6667, which is exactly what i'm using on the windows side of things that works fine. so, yeah, either something's broken accessibility wize with colloquy, or i just don't have a clue what i'm doing. probably the ladder. i know there was another i r c client suggested, but i can't for the life a me remember it, it was like x... sopmething x, or what not. i don't remember... sorry... anyway, any help would be appreciated. i really wanna get i r c working on the mac, but if i can't, well, i guess i just can't. sighs. chris. -- you received this message because you are subscribed to the google groups "macvisionaries" group. to post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. to unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. for more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
