Chax 1.5b1

Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions for iChat. Chax makes using Apples iChat more enjoyable.
Main features:
User list:
- Toggle text status visibility of users
- Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users
- Set font of names, status messages, and group separators
- Show animated user icons
- Ability to hide iTunes music store links in text statuses
- Idle time included in tooltips
- Display Address Book nicknames instead of full names
- Option to show a warning before messaging mobile users
- Hide the audio/video status icon at the top of the user list
- Message a specific screen name for people with multiple screen names
Message window:
- Tabbed chats, allowing you to keep all of your chats together in one window
- Option to auto-accept text chats, skipping new message notification window
- Show status changes directly in the message window
- Disable the smiley button in text input lines
- Option to open images sent through direct connect directly in Preview
- Send away auto-reply only once per conversation
- Save and restore window positions for individual screen names
Other:
- Unread message notification in the dock
- Growl notifications for new messages and users changing status
- Properly use ICQ accounts without sending text formatting in messages
- Automatically set status to away when screensaver is activated
- Option to auto-accept file transfers
- Hide all iChat windows when iChat is inactive
- Always on top option for user lists, text chats, and audio or video chats
- Set a custom away auto-reply that is different from the away message
- Change the delay of or disable auto-away
- New message windows cascade properly instead of always appearing on top of each other
- Built-in log viewer
- Activity window shows history of user status changes
- Warn before quitting while there are active chats
- Option to disable pausing of AV chats while there are active file transfers
- Disable picture-in-picture in video chats
- Automatically reconnect when disconnected
- Disable alert sounds when away, idle, or available
Enhancements:
- Increased responsiveness of the log viewer
- Log viewer now sorts logs by creation date
- Fixed an issue where the Chax preferences could become hidden
- Fixed missing strings in the Italian localization