iChat groups via Bonjour

[Scot Hacker]

On May 23, 2007, at 12:45 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 23-May-2007, at 12:19, Scot Hacker wrote:
>> For a non-Bonjour iChat buddy  list, I can initiate a group chat  
>> by Cmd-clicking buddies and clicking "A." Or do File | New Chat  
>> and click  "+" to add people to  the group.
>
> You can command clkick multiple buddies and click A to start a chat  
> channel?
>
> Hmmm.. Doesn't work here (bonjour or not).

Weird - works fine here, and it's in the docs under  "Hosting a  
multiperson video conference" (though I'm juts dealing with text   
chat right now).

 >>Select the buddies in your Buddy List you want to invite to the  
video conference. Press and hold the Command key to select more than  
one buddy.

>
> Ah, wait, it works for me if I first say "New Chat" and THEN I  
> select multiple users I can add them (A) or drag them to the list  
> of chat participant, or clicking '+', but the '+' is greyed if I  
> start eh chat witha  BonJour person.  I assumed this was because  
> there was only one person in my bonjour contacts...

Yeah, if you don't  have access to more than one Bonjour contact,  
you  won't be able to  test  this. Anyone?

>
> Of course, some of this behavior may be because of chax too.  If  
> you really need confirmation, let me know and I will try it on a  
> machine without chax installed.
>

Not a huge deal, but would  be really  nice to get it working here  
(we've got 50+ on Bonjour and group  chats would  be useful  sometimes).

./s