Leaving a collaboration
So, you feel that you had enough of your collaborators' company. Or you are being called at the dining table. How do you leave the group behind?
Save the document
If you choose to save in the native iChalk document format (default), all the content of the document including the transcript in the chat window will be saved. If you save as a generic JPEG file, it discards the chatting content. This will save a file compatible with most Graphics programs such as Photoshop as well as document editors.
If you were not hosting:
Your responsibility is little. Click the Connect button on the toolbar or choose Connect (command-K) to bring up the connect window. You will see the blue button, which says Disconnect. Click. All others remaining on the collaboration will hear a rude door-closing sound and your name will be dropped from the list of people in the group. From then on, your document remains local and you are free to do whatever you desire. Your collaborators will go on as if nothing important happened....
If you were hosting:
You are just about to drop all your collaborators cold. With a heavy heart, click the Host button on the toolbar or choose Host (command-shift-K) to bring up the Host window. You will see the blue button, which says Retire. Click.
This sends signals to everybody in the group notifying them that you are retiring. Each of them will then stop, and will drop their connection. If everything goes well, everybody will have dropped connection, with his or her document in the local mode.
Closing an active window
The first thing that happens is equivalent to choosing retire/disconnect described above. You will be asked if you would like to save if the document is dirty.
