Quick Chat



Quick Chat is a method of talking using preset messages. It was released on May 21, 2008.

Quick Chat works by selecting from a database of messages. It also works using items, similar to the Grand Exchange item database - the user simply types an item name and it finds it from its list of items. This is the same with locations, food and monsters, as it has a database for each respectively.

You can access Quick Chat three different ways, then select the chat which you want to speak. Quick Chat is fast because it can be activated using keyboard shortcuts.
 * Clicking the Speech icon ([[Image:Quick_chat_button.png|Quick chat]]) in the Chat Box
 * Clicking your Name in the Chat Box
 * Pressing the Enter Key with no text previously typed (Exception being the '/' key if you're in a Clan Chat.)

Context-sensitive chat
This only works in certain places. Basically depending on where you are, there are preset messages just for you. Hit F10 to view these. The places in which context-sensitive chat works are:


 * Barbarian Assault
 * Blast Furnace
 * Castle Wars
 * Clan Wars
 * Duel Arena
 * Falador Mole Lair
 * Fishing Trawler
 * Fist of Guthix
 * Games Room
 * Gnome Ball
 * God Wars Dungeon
 * Kalphite Lair
 * Party Room
 * Pest Control
 * Player-owned houses
 * Shades of Mort'ton
 * Trouble Brewing
 * TzHaar Fight Pit
 * Waterbirth Island Dungeon

Keyboard Shortcuts
In addition to the Quick Chat update, the update also changed some of the previous keyboard shortcuts and introduced a new shortcut allowing the user to repeat the last Quick Chat message, along with other shortcuts.


 * Enter - opens up Quick Chat if you aren't currently typing anything.
 * F9 - opens the quick responses feature. From here, if someone said "How can I train up my Ranged level?", you could quickly reply with a monster name - e.g. "Try ranging: Chickens".
 * F10 - opens up the context-sensitive Quick Chat menu.
 * F11 - repeats the last phrase you said using Quick Chat.

Trivia

 * On the first day of its release it was functional but once the user had chosen from the options it would just disconnect them from the server. This was true for only about 10 minutes, as a new system update was completed to make it work. It was reported that World 124 did not receive the update, but regardless, it no longer has this glitch.
 * Quick Chat allows the user to type without the first letter being capitalized, whereas in normal text it is impossible to have the first letter not capitalized. For example, if someone were to say "w00t", then it would appear as "W00t", whereas the Quick Chat feature lets the user use the former.
 * On the first day of its release, there were a number of unreleased or fake items listed if you would click "trade/item" "trade". These included "9mm revolver", "gunpowder", "truffle", "sphinx baby", "mobile phone", "teddy", "mixed dragon", "firestarter", "hatchling dragon", "last will and testament", "no eggs", "brass monkey", "blue monkey", "red monkey", "baby monkey", "pretty girl", "fake man", "Permenently Banned", "Trapdoor Key", and "Cape Fire" like fire cape. You can even say that you want to buy a Cape of achievement or other untradable items.
 * On the first day of its release it was possible to refer to the glitch item 'null'
 * On the first day of its release it was possible to refer to the axe handle, bronze axe head, iron axe head, steel axe head, black axe head, mithril axe head, adamant axe head, rune axe head, dragon axe head, ghost buster 500, Lathas' amulet, broken plate, sea slug, war ship, man speak amulet, and shantay disclaimer, items Jagex removed from the game.
 * On the first day of its release, if someone searched clue scroll as an item, they received the message that there were too many results.