User blog:PaintedRed/Introducing WitCHAT!



Introducing WitCHAT. IC? It's a messenger application that will be integrated with Witchagram (sort of like how there's Facebook and Facebook Messenger). OOC? It's a new way of roleplaying. WitCHAT was developed by Lei Clayton, an intern for Witchagram (and OOC, by me with the help of the wonderful AceOfBlysen which I am very grateful for). Here's an example, and here's how it works.

Setting It Up
On your character's Witchagram page (or on their character page if you don't want to make a Witchagram -- again, I'm looking at this like how some people have Messenger but don't have Facebook), copy paste the following code and fill out the info accordingly. If you don't customize any of the colors, the default color will be Facebook messenger blue and white name text.

By sender, what I mean is the person who the page does not belong to. For example if it's Character A's page, then under name I put the name of Character B, who is talking to Character A. Instead of putting the name of the sender, you can also "customize their chat nicknames" and make it something fun, or put the name of a group chat (but we'll get to group chats later).

Templates Involved
There are three main messaging templates:
 * : This is the text of the person sending the message. It will appear on the lefthand side of the chat window and be in regular black font. You use it like this:
 * : This is the text of the person receiving the message (who the page belongs to). It will appear on the righthand side of the chat window, and be in bold font. You use it like this:
 * : This is the text of the chat window. You can use this to create messages about customizing the chat, playing imaginary games, or seenzoning messages. You use it like this: . Some examples are the following:

Using Them
So the code above is the code for your chat window right? Under the messages part, just use the three templates above to your heart's content. For example:

Will end up looking like this:

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Messages - Group Chats
It's almost the same concept, really! Except:

The changes above are very minor, what's more different is how messages work. The still applies, however messaging between the characters will be done instead using the template , wherein you need to type:

Pretty simple, right? This will just make everyone show up in the left hand side. And, here are some additional chat text things you can add in:

Here's an example:

Becomes this:

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Having More than One Chat at a Time
Because of lack of space, you can only have two chats open at a time. If you want to open a second one, so that you can chat with two characters at once separately, then just use the Witchat2 template, like this:

Everything else is the same.

Archiving Old Chats
Since you can only have two chats, you might want to keep your old ones. There's a solution for that as well. Make a place for you to keep your archives (you can make it a template, keep it in your sandbox, or even make an entire archive page like the ones on locations), and on it, copy paste the following code:

Next, copy paste your old Witchagram window template (either Witchagram or Witchagram2) from the main page and then put it in one of the cells of the table (I'll show how in a bit). EXCEPT, change the name of the template from Witchagram or Witchagram2 to Witchagram/Archive. For example, if this is your original:

Make it this:

Put that new code (like the one above) into one of the cells on your archive like this:

You can fill up all the other cells like that too. There's room in the table I made you copy paste for 8 chats, but you can always add more by just adding more cells.

Opportunities Ahead!
And we're done! Now, go and have fun! This opens the doors for a lot of different scenarios to RP, like students texting over the summer, someone sending another person a drunk text, or an alternative to owls for less formal messages. Hope you guys like it. <3