There are many configuration settings you can make to change the way chatberry connects to the chat servers, and to change your experience with the software. This page describes each of the configuration settings, what it affects and why you might want to change each setting.
To open the settings page, select settings from the menu on almost all screens, including the login screen.
There are three settings panels. General Settings, Alerts, and Advanced. To switch between these panels use the menu.
You are advised not to change any of the advanced settings unless you are sure you know what you are doing. |
| Setting |
Purpose and Values |
gaydar.chatPort
advanced |
This tells chatberry which port to use to connect to the gaydar chat server. This should normally not be changed and will normally be 8000. |
sortUsers
general |
Indicates to chatberry that it should sort user lists to alphabetical order. Set to false if you would like to see the users in historical order. |
showJoins
general |
Tells chatberry to display a line in the chat window each time a user enters or leaves a room. Setting to false will surpress these notifications. |
tunnelPeriod
advanced |
The tunnel polls to see if any messages have been received for you every few seconds. You can set the polling period by changing this value. The value is in milliseconds, and the default is 15 seconds (15000). It is not recommended to set this value less than 5000, or greater than 60000. |
gaycom.chatPort
advanced |
This tells chatberry which port to use to connect to the gaydar chat server. This should normally not be changed and will normally be 7514. |
profile
general |
This field contains the text that is passed to the chat server when you login, and is show as your profile. |
location
general |
this field contains the text that is passed to the chat server when you login and is show as your location in your profile |
age
general |
Your age that will be shown in your profile |
profileUpdates
general |
Each time a user updates their profile on-line it is possible to receive a message about that profile update. Setting this to true will result in a line appearing in all chat windows when a profile update occurrs. |
showInvites
general |
When someone invites you to a private chat, if showInvites is set to true, then a line will be displayed in each chat window. |
tunnelServer
advanced |
The address of the chatberry tunnel server. This should not normally be changed, and if you are using the tiggit tunnel should be set to tiggittunnel.dynalias.org |
tunnelSecure
advanced |
This tells chatberry to use https to connect to the tunnel. The normal value for this will be true. |
loginTimeout
advanced |
the number of seconds to wait for a login to complete, default value in 90. It is not clear yet whether this is too short or too long |
screenLines
general |
the number of lines of text in a chat window. You can set this to fit your blackberry device. Devices with higher resolution can support more lines. Typical values will be between 4 and 12. |
gaydar.loginName
general |
the login name used to login to gaydar |
gaydar.nickName
general |
the screen name used for gaydar. This will normally be the same as the login name |
gaycom.loginName
general |
the login name used to login to gay.com |
gaycom.nickName
general |
the screen name used for gay.com. This will normally be the same as the login name |
gaycom.chatServer
general |
the network address of the gay.com chat server. This will normally be www.gay.com |
httpByTunnel
advanced |
This flag tells chatberry not to make http requests directly via your service providers data server, rather to make requests via the tunnel. This is helpful if service providers or corporate environments do not allow access to gay.com |
tunnel
advanced |
This flag tells chatberry to use the tunnel rather than attempting to make a direct socket connection to gay.com. This is a more secure approach as firewalls do not need to be opened for chatberry. |
gaydar.chatServer
general |
the network address of the gaydar chat server. This will normally be chat.mygaydar.com |
gaydar.nickName
general |
the screen name used for gaydar. This will normally be the same as the login name |
sex
general |
the value here is used to populate the sex field in your profile. Any value you like ! |
botguard
general |
enables the chatberry botguard |
gallery
general |
enables gallery mode - causes users thumbnails to be downloaded when you enter a room |
alertJoin
alert |
specifies the type of alert when a user joins a room. can be none, vibrate, beep, visual, vibrate and beep, vibrate and visual, visual and beep. visual causes a dialogue to be displayed if chatberry is foreground on the handheld |
alertInvite
alert |
specifies the type of alert when you receive an invitation to a private chat, and the user passes the botguard if enabled |
alertLine
alert |
specifies the type of alert when there is a new line in a room which you are in |
alertBuddy
alert |
specifies the type of alert when a buddy logs in |
alertPrivate
alert |
redundant |
networkString
advanced |
specifies the string to be suffixed to all network requests to the BlackBerry connection api. Really only add something here if you know what you are doing |
useMDS
advanced |
tells chatberry to use the mobile data server to make network connections, and not make the connection directly from the device |
suppressService
general |
tells ChatBerry not to display a service selection on the login page. |
