"Message"setting options

Question

HI,
I am trying to change the setting options in "Message"
when I go in to "preferences" and into "Alerts" I change the "Event" to "Message Recieved" and then close by the red X, if I go back in, it has not saved it, and its gone back to the default "when I Log In" but I do get the sound when a new message comes in.
The other problem is, I have selected Ring" as "Play a sound", which works fine, but if I try to change it to something else, the tick stays on the new sound I select, but I still get the "ring" sound.
Third problem is, I tried the "voice" option, it works fine, but I have unticked it, and I am still getting the voice.
Is there a way to save any of this, or is it a bug in the system ?
Thanks for any replies.

Answer 1

HI,
What we have here is one app that had some of the functions that are now given to all apps via the System Preferences > Notifications.
In iChat 5.0.3 (Snow Leopard) if you set the Global Alerts for "When I Log In" to include the Speech option it will say "Logged in to (Screen Name)"
Messages (version 7.0.1) will also "read" your Account/Screen name when saying "Logged in to (Screen Name)"
In Both versions you can tick the box to Bounce the icon in the DOCK but in fact it does not.
I double checked ichat 4.0.9 in Leopard's last version and it also does not bounce the DOCK icon on setting it for logging in yourself.
I then set the Bounce option in Messages (And iChat 5) to check "Messages Received" and "Text Invitation" and then sent Bonjour Messages to each computer.
Messages will read the message but not state who from regarding Speech.
In either case it also will not bounce the DOCK  (even if the app if Quit and restarted)  IF and I repeat IF the App is the front app
iChat 5 acts in the same way.
However the behaviour changes once the app is in the "background" or at least behind one other app (in this Case the Web Browser I was composing this reply in).
Checking iChat 4 and iChat 5 reveals the same behavior.  If the "front" app - meaning your are already watching it in theory, then the icon does not bounce.
The settings in Messages will override the System Preferences > Noticifications settings for Bounce and Sound.
The Repeat bounce is very slow in Messages.
For me the Notifications only work if the app is Open (it does not have to be in front of other apps)
They do not work if the app is Quit.  (In fact iChat 5 Bonjour window takes away the text entry field and iChat 4 keeps the text field but will not add any messages to the Chat)
However I have the Messages App Menu > Preferences > General section set to "When I Quit Messages, set my Status to Off line"
If I un-do this and quit Messages then iChat 5 thinks Messages is On Line and a new Message will "wake" the app, show the Notification Alert or Banner, bounce the Dock and play the sound.
So... App not the Front App will get the DOCK Icon to Bounce.
once you have set the Messages Preferences to do so for "Message Received" or "Text Invitation" depending on which point in a chat you want to catch the incoming Message.
The Notifications pane in System Preferences can be set to Banners or Alerts depending if you want them to stay until dealt with.
I can't replicate this bit at the moment
I have once or twice had the notification pop down when Messages was open, but then stopped and went back to only popping down when I had quit Messages.
I tried having Messages in the background (behind the Browser) and sending it a (Bonjour) message.
The Notifications were set to Banners (Automatic removal).  I then Quit Messages before bring  the app to the Front and reading the message.  I did not get a repeat Notification.
8:14 PM      Saturday; January 26, 2013
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