&R Q ICQ compatible client |  | Miniguide for &RQ 0.9.4 last version at www.rejetto.com/&RQ

things that are not obvious

- You can speed up starting on slow disks (e.g. diskett) disabling the read-only-check in preferences
- &RQ does NOT show your ip address, you can see it in "view my info" for you comfort but it won't be visible to others
- You can start a user passing its UIN as parameter (command line)
- Right-click on things usually gives you a menu with useful features
- To change sounds you have to edit your own sounds.ini and set the file name for events (set NONE for no sound)
- You can manually move your user folder to the application data (under '&RQ' subfolder), and it used as well
- in Tray-icon
  - Click brings the window to foreground
  - Double click gets you connected (with chosen starting status) or pops up the blinking event
  - Right click shows the main menu
  - Ctrl+right click deletes all blinking events
- in Tip windows
  - click simply closes the tip
  - double click open the chat window to reply to sender
  - right click closes the tip and remove the related blinking event
  - keeping the mouse button down prevents the window from disappearing
- in Chat window
  - Right click on smiles button shows a list of available smiles
  - When you select something in the history, text is automagically copied into the clipboard (but you can disable it)
  - Double click on the tab closes the associated chat (if no blinking event were on that tab)
  - Double click on a message pops up a window for easy reading
  - Quote button QUOTES the last received message, if you click the button another time you get quoted the previous message an so on...
  - Clicking on the "outbox" icon (on the statusbar) the outbox window will appear
  - In left-side of history lies a hidden scrollbar that let you scroll the message line-by-line
- in Contact list
  - Clicking on the UIN, on the contact popup menu, copies the UIN into the clipboard (same as IP address, if present)
  - Type the name to search for a contact
  - Double click (or ENTER key) on the -online- and -offline- list divisors will show/hide offline contacts
  - SHIFT or CONTROL while popping up the contact menu will show extra commands

keyboard shortcuts

- in Password entering box (multiline passwords support)
  - ctrl + enter: CR LF
  - shift + enter: CR
  - alt + enter: LF
- in Chat window
  - alt + arrows: moves history
    in particular, alt +
    - up / down: scrolls up/down by 1 message
    - page up/down: scrolls up by 5 messages
    - home / end: goes to the top/end
    - left / right: goes to the chat at left/right
  - ctrl + up/down: moves history line by line
  - ctrl + enter: same as the send button
  - send button closes the chat window if no text was inserted
  - shift key lets you extend your selection after you realeased mouse button

Auto-messages variables

%you% | displayed contact name
%nick% | contact nick
%ip% | contact IP address
%status% | contact status
%proto% | contact direct protocol version
%awaysince% | time i'm away since
%elapsedhours% | hours i have been away for
%elapsedminutes% | minutes i have been away for
%h% | local time: hours
%m% | local time: minutes
%s% | local time: seconds
%D% | local time: day
%M% | local time: month
%Y% | local time: year
%hh% | local time: hours (2 digits)
%mm% | local time: minutes (2 digits)
%ss% | local time: seconds (2 digits)
%DD% | local time: day (2 digits)
%MM% | local time: month (2 digits)
%onlinecontacts% | number of online contacts
%offlinecontacts% | number of offline contacts
%events% | number of pending events

Install a new language
If you got a file XXXXX.zip containing a translation in any language for &RQ, you can install it following these instructions.

- Uncompress XXXXX.zip in the "&RQ\lang\XXXXX" folder.

This should be enough, but there is one chance you got files in the wrong place. Just check if in the "&RQ\lang\XXXXX" you got the file "lang.txt". If the file isn't there, i guess you got only one item in the "&RQ\lang\XXXXX" folder, that is a folder, let's say. Enter that folder a just move all items you find in it. Move them to the folder "&RQ\lang\XXXXX", that is, one level up.

Install a new theme
If you got a file XXXXX.zip containing a theme for &RQ, you can install it following these instructions.

- Uncompress XXXXX.zip in the "&RQ\themes" folder.

Install a new plugin
If you got a file XXXXX.zip containing a plugin for &RQ, you can install it following these instructions.

- Enter the &RQ folder and check for the "plugins" folder. If there's no "plugins" folder, then create it.
- Uncompress XXXXX.zip in the "&RQ\plugins" folder.

tips

- If you want to send your message and close the window to return to your business, use the send button: the first time it sends your message and clears the text-area, the second time it closes the chat window
- Quotation is very useful when you reply to a message that ask several things, so you can reply question by question