Name: Talker

Maintainer: Dan Greene, Creator: Paul Rovner

Date: April 20, 1984

Purpose: Talker is a simple tool for typescript-style communication between 2 or more Cedar users. It is included in the automatic bringover and in the prerun line of the standard user.profile. Talker registers a "Talk" command with the UserExec.

Where to get it: [Indigo]<CedarX.X>Top>Talker.df


What it does:

The registered command "Talk <user name> <user name>...<user name> <CR>" establishes contact with each specified Talker user by creating an Icon in her Cedar world and flashing it (once every 6 seconds) until it is opened. Communication is a line at a time; lines from other conversants are inserted while you are composing the next line to send to them. After a Talker viewer is closed, it will not flash again until a new line arrives from one of the other conversants. This can be used (for example) to leave a high priority message for someone. Another conversant can be added to a conversation in progress by selecting the new conversant's name and hitting the JoinConversation menu item.

The default registry of the <user name> is chosen as follows:
  1) The token after `Talk.DefaultRegistry:' in the user profile
  2) The token after `Default.DefaultRegistry:' in the user profile
  3) The user's own registry