PESTERCHUM 3.14.1: New Pesterchum (6/26 3.41 8eta pg54)

[Gunge]

Also, I know this probably isn't going to happen because it's hard and a lot of people probably wouldn't use it...
But it'd be awesome if there was a mode where you could use talksprites as well during conversation.
So, you could set specific talksprites to some moods, or something, and each new message you sent you could change it. And each message in the chatlog would have a little faint dot beside them, which you'd click to see what the sprite was on at the time that message was sent.
It'd be like the alterniabound setup, but with one person's sprite on the left and one on the right. Which I guess would mean you'd have to be able to set 'right side'/'left side' versions of the sprites. Ah gad this is complicated, sorry. But if anyone wanted to take up the challenge, it'd make my life! xD

[Wacom Guy]

seems to me like the server's down. ok on your end?

[Blaperile]

Working fine for me.

Also, I know this probably isn't going to happen because it's hard and a lot of people probably wouldn't use it...
But it'd be awesome if there was a mode where you could use talksprites as well during conversation.
So, you could set specific talksprites to some moods, or something, and each new message you sent you could change it. And each message in the chatlog would have a little faint dot beside them, which you'd click to see what the sprite was on at the time that message was sent.
It'd be like the alterniabound setup, but with one person's sprite on the left and one on the right. Which I guess would mean you'd have to be able to set 'right side'/'left side' versions of the sprites. Ah gad this is complicated, sorry. But if anyone wanted to take up the challenge, it'd make my life! xD

That's a nice idea, I like it!

[JonasMcKay]

how does this name thing work, I've tried damn near everything and it still says invalid chumhandle

[oceansWrath]

when i open pesterchum, i get the error:

"[errorno: 10061] no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it"

any way to fix this?

I'm sorry if i sound impatient, but this problem still remains unsolved, help please?

[kittenkraze]

I'm not sure if this is resolved already, but I'll ask anyway.

So I downloaded this Pesterchum thing, and it's worked fine for me. I went on a certain memo, it was good, I could talk to people. But recently I've been "invisible" to certain people. They can't see my text. At all. They told me closing out and reopening the memo would fix it, but it didn't. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling; that also failed. I'm now "invisible" to half the people who regularly go on there. Kiiinda frustrating. Would like to know if there's a possible solution to this.

[MeiMei]

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Okay, I thought I could figure it out, but I have no idea what I'm doing and nobody fully helped me out last time, so I'm gonna give you as much information as I have, cause I really need this thing to work if I ever want to RP on here to the capacity that everyone else can:

The computer I'm using is called 'HP Pavilion Entertainment PC' as far as I know. It's the first name I could find, so I don't know if there's anything I have to do for it. The only things I've downloaded towards getting pesterchum to work is pesterchum itself and that update thingy since I wasn't sure if I had to do that or not.

However, when I open it, I get a screen that says 'redirecting from pesterclientnumbersgohere', and it looks just like the normal startup screen thingy, I guess. I put in my chumhandle, even pick a color, put a check mark in 'set as default'. I click 'ok', but it says that my chumhandle is still a 'pesterclient-' tag. I don't know how to change this, I can't set up alt-profiles for my fantrolls, I haven't tried pestering anyone, but I'm getting a nagging feeling that pestering won't work, but I don't want to randomly pester someone to find out (that might be rude).

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, or if I have to install more stuff, or if it's just the server, or what. I'm not getting any error messages or anything, it's just not recognizing my handle. I haven't used pesterchum on any computer first, so this is literally my first time using it, still.

Could someone with actual computer knowledge figure this out for me, maybe tell me what I actually have to do?

Go to wherever you downloaded pesterchum to and open up your pesterchum.js file in notepad. Add the line "port:1413" inside the brackets. See if that fixes it.

I tried that, but it won't let me save it or anything.

[Tien]

So if you just say, anger a cannon handle, *all Karkat's fault* and they block your username, does it stay blocked forever?
EDIT: Never mind I figured it out.

[sixteen-volume-meng]

Okay, so I have a (probably) stupid question:
why are the dropdown menus (client, help, etc. at the top of the main window) not showing up in linux? I've looked around for answers on the thread, but I've never been good at finding things...

[Blaperile]

how does this name thing work, I've tried damn near everything and it still says invalid chumhandle

You've got to start your chumhandle with a normal letter, and for the second part you've got to start with a capital letter. For example: enthusiasticScholar which will show up as 'ES'.

[kiooeht]

Okay, so I have a (probably) stupid question:
why are the dropdown menus (client, help, etc. at the top of the main window) not showing up in linux? I've looked around for answers on the thread, but I've never been good at finding things...

Try talking to Dariox97 (amateurMarksman). They had the same problem and managed to get it working.

[sixteen-volume-meng]

Okay, so I have a (probably) stupid question:
why are the dropdown menus (client, help, etc. at the top of the main window) not showing up in linux? I've looked around for answers on the thread, but I've never been good at finding things...

Try talking to Dariox97 (amateurMarksman). They had the same problem and managed to get it working.

Okay, will do. Thanks!

[Blaperile]

A friend of mine just got Pesterchum and in almost every theme of Pesterchum, he can't switch out of it. When he presses the button 'theme', nothing opens so he has to log out every time he wants to change his theme. Does anyone know how this can be fixed?

[penguinofhonor]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

[curiousTerminal]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

It's probably not, but it might be possible to have it randomly change the colors of LETTERS.
I know it changes all of mine normally.

[SomeGuyNamedDavid]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

That would probably be possible, which do you want?

[penguinofhonor]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

That would probably be possible, which do you want?

I'd want random words to be green. About 1/4 or 1/5 of them. I can mess around with the exact color myself, but I can't figure out how to write this confusing code thing.

[Dariox97]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

That would probably be possible, which do you want?

I'd want random words to be green. About 1/4 or 1/5 of them. I can mess around with the exact color myself, but I can't figure out how to write this confusing code thing.

Words or individual letters? because

 (\S) RANDOM REPLACE WITH <c=green>\1</c> ; \1 ; \1 ; \1 ; \1

I use \S to reduce the chances of line breaking, and each semicolon represents new random regexps.

Words would be

(\w+) RANDOM REPLACE WITH <c=green>\1</c>;  \1; \1; \1; \1;

I think.

[SomeGuyNamedDavid]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

That would probably be possible, which do you want?

I'd want random words to be green. About 1/4 or 1/5 of them. I can mess around with the exact color myself, but I can't figure out how to write this confusing code thing.

You could do that by random replacing

\b(\S+)\b

with

\1
\1
\1
<c=green>\1</c>

(Replace 'green' with whatever shade of green you want to use; the word green represents the default shade, #008000.)

[penguinofhonor]

Is it possible to have a quirk randomly change the color of some words? Or change the color of ever Xth word?

That would probably be possible, which do you want?

I'd want random words to be green. About 1/4 or 1/5 of them. I can mess around with the exact color myself, but I can't figure out how to write this confusing code thing.

Words or individual letters? because

 (\S) RANDOM REPLACE WITH <c=green>\1</c> ; \1 ; \1 ; \1 ; \1

I use \S to reduce the chances of line breaking, and each semicolon represents new random regexps.

Words would be

(\w+) RANDOM REPLACE WITH <c=green>\1</c>;  \1; \1; \1; \1;

I think.

Thank you! This works wonderfully. I liked how the words looked better than the letters. It's kind of annoying that apostrophes count as new words, but eh. Can't be too picky, I guess.

[SomeGuyNamedDavid]

I think that using '\b(\S+)\b' in place of '(\w+)' fixes that. And you can take out one of those '\1's if you want the frequency at 1/4 instead of 1/5, because it seems like it actually happens a little less often than the frequency you set it at.

[Wade Wilson]

I created an account, and exited it, but now I cannot get back on my account because it says it's already taken. Can anyone help me?

[pseudoProgrammer]

When you hit the "X" in the upper-right corner, Pesterchum minimizes the program to the system tray and keeps running. If the program didn't exit, you're still running an instance that is using the handle that you wish to connect with. Right-click the icon in your system tray and hit exit to actually exit the program (or select "exit" from the Client menu).

That, or someone is actually using the handle you're trying to connect with. In which case, you're out of luck.

[sjasogun]

Shouldn't the link to the second chumhandles thread be added to the first post?

Ontopic: TALKSPRITES!!!

[Wade Wilson]

No, I exited by hitting the x on the corner and it disapeared even from my system tray. Now when I try to log in it says I can't use my accounts. So I don't know why but Pesterchum does go away when I hit the right hand corner X, and when it does I can't use that account again.