Wintermute facilitates site communication via the use of chat channels; they are identified by name. A channel is spawned for every zone and group - but other channels can be created as the user requires.

Chat channels can be viewed and interacted with either via Wintermute or from a remote node.

Chat channels are also scanned for #tags - when found, they will be appended to the containing object's collection of tags.

When you want to refer to an existing channel programmatically, you can:

• Refer to the name directly with text or via a variable reference
• Use the syntax #[Position] to refer to the audience group at a particular point in the show flow, e.g. #5
• Use a show zone's groupID variable in a reference to get the name of the (last) group in that zone.

• new_chat
• reset_chat
• message_chat
• write_chat