[Rwp] Tutorial: How to join RWP irc chat room

[Hadi Rezaei]

Hello there guys
As promised, This is a tutorial about Instantbird client on windows, 
which can help you to setup instantbird to connect and chat on RWP 
chatroom. I will try to provide clear; but short instructions to get you 
setup quickly. If you faced any problems, please mail me off list to not 
annoy current RWP users on the MailingList.
Also, at the end of our tutorial I will introduce you to our bot in the 
channel that can do some cool things; It reacts to some commands that 
you give it.
Alright. here we go, follow the steps and you're good to go.
step 1. Download and install Instantbird.
Direct link:
http://ftp.instantbird.com/instantbird/nightly/latest-trunk/instantbird-1.6a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Just download and run the installer; Make sure you'll get a shortcut on 
the desktop.
step 2. run instantbird's shortcut on the desktop.
At this point, two windows will be openned for you. The first one is 
instantbird main client, and the second one is the account manager which 
will be focused when you launch instantbird for the first time.
Step 3. Setup your account.
At this point, with Instantbird and account manager openned, you should 
be on the select protocol page. each page has a next, back, and cancel 
button. we will fill the needed pages and hit next.
First page: Select protocol, When you scroll down the list, you will 
hear the protocols that Instantbird supports. just arrow down untill you 
hear, "Show more protocols". press enter on it, and now You'll have a 
bigger list. Choose IRC on the list, and hit enter. (This will move you 
to the next page, If pressing enter didn't work, press tab and hit next)
Second page: Here, provide your username. Make sure it's something 
unique as you are going to connect to a big network; If you connect with 
a username that is already chosen, The bots will change your name.
After choosing the username, press tab and, clear the server address 
that is set for default,   enter the info I give you below:
irc.rizon.net
After that, press tab untill you reach next, and hit it.
third page. it asks for a password. skip this for now, so just press next.
fourth page: advanced options. You are not going to work with this right 
now, so just press next.
fifth page, finishing point. Just make sure that the checkbox for 
automatic connection is checked, and then press finish.
When you press the finish button, you're back at account manager; This 
time, it is showing your newly created account. just press escape or  
close on this window to go back to instantbird's main client window.
Note: When you're connected to Rizon network, some bots will message 
you, It's their default thing. You need to close the chat window by 
pressing the escape button or alt+f4. If you think you're confused, 
just  close down all the windows and go launch instantbird from desktop 
again, This will put you back in instantbird's main client with your 
account already connected.
step 4. Join our channel.
Bring the file menu by pressing the alt button. arrow down untill you 
hear something like, "join chat". when you press enter on that, it will 
ask you for our channel name. write this info there:
#RWP
After that, press tab untill you hear, "Automatically join this 
channel". check this checkbox.
and finally, press ok or join (I forgot which one it was there) and it 
will open a chat window that is our channel! I will tell you how the 
chat window looks like.

How is the chat window?
It's made of 5 parts which you can move by pressing tab and shift tab.
the parts are: the editbox which you can write in. just write your chat 
and press enter, and  it's sent for good.
  the section which you can scroll and read the chat output. I think 
It's easy to work with this thing, just scroll and read!
  the chat chooser button, this is like the tabbing feature of firefox. 
You can press left and right arrow keys to move between open channels, 
and private messages. If i send you a private message, you should tab 
till you get to here, and press right arrow, and the chat window will 
change to my name, and you can chat with me.
  a small LCD that tells you how many participants are in this channel,
and finally a list that shows you who else is also in our channel.

note: When you press alt-f4 on the chat window, the chat window closes 
but you're still connected to our channel. If someone says your username 
in chat, It will automatically pop up.
note2: If you press alt+f4 in instantbird's main client, It will go down 
to your system trey. This will stop bothering you in your regular alt 
tabbing procedures. Just go to your desktop and press enter on 
instantbird to bring it back up.
note3. The instantbird's main client is a simple window which shows you 
your list of channels. The channel name will be read like this:
#RWP Wellcome to RWP channel, this.... 5
So what you hear is, Channel name, a part of the description of the 
channel, and unread messages that you haven't seen yet in the chat.

Please give this a try and let me know if you need any assistance, I'll 
be here and there in our irc channel to help you out.
Our chat room bot features:
We have a bot in our room that can do some cool things, you can type 
these commands, and it will reply.
.w city name, or zip address -- this will tell you the weather
.forecast city name or zip -- shows you a forecast of your city.
.dict word -- well.. a dictionary.
.urban word -- pulls data from urban dictionary
.g text --  searches google for your written text.

Have fun and let me know if you required any help.
Cheers
Hadi