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Coolbars

From version 01.03.04.00, Q3Offline's offline toolbars are implemented as "coolbars", as used by Internet Explorer.

Coolbars have the following cool features:

allows you to add and remove buttons from the toolbar, as well as rearrange the order of the buttons.

You can change to order of the toolbars, put them on the same row or split them across different rows, or partially hide one toolbar under another. Q3Offline does not support floating toolbars, or docking the toolbars other than at the top of the main window. 

to display the remaining toolbar buttons in a drop down menu.

Main Toolbar

The Main toolbar has the following buttons:

New : Creates a new document using the default document template.

Open (Ctrl+O) : Opens an existing .q3o document. If there is already an open document which has been modified, you will be prompted to save the open document first, unless File, Auto Save is ticked, in which case the open document is automatically saved.

Save (Ctrl+S) : Saves the currently open document. If the document is untitled (i.e., it has not already been saved), then you will be asked to enter a name for the document, in similar way to the File, Save As command.

Cut (Ctrl+X) : Cuts the currently selected item to the clipboard.

Copy (Ctrl+C) : Copies the currently selected item to  the clipboard.

Paste (Ctrl+V) : Pastes the item on the clipboard to the current field.

About : Displays version information and contact details.

Game Toolbar

The Game Toolbar gives you quick access to your favourite Q3Offline game documents (.q3o files), and is a quick way of launching Quake III Arena.

Use the Add Game to toolbar button to add the currently open document to the Game Toolbar. Note that the Add Game to toolbar button will only be enabled if the current document has a valid file name (i.e., it has been saved at some point), and it is not already on the Game toolbar.

Each game that has been added to the toolbar appears as a Game button, e.g., . The text for the button is the document file name without the directory location, or the .q3o file extension. For example, the CTF game button shown above was created from the file C:\Quake III Arena\Q3Offline\CTF.q3o. So, when you save a Q3Offline document, make sure you pick a suitable file name to appear on the Game Toolbar.

The Tooltip for the Game button (which appears when the mouse hovers over the button) displays the full file name for the game document, so you can tell exactly which document the button will open.

Use the Customise Toolbar dialog (by right clicking on the toolbar and selecting Customise) to remove game documents from the Game Toolbar, or to reorder the existing buttons.

Use the Large icons option to toggle between large and small icons on the toolbar. Use the Show text option to switch between displaying and not display text on each toolbar button. Both of these options are on the toolbar popup menu - right click on the toolbar.

When you want to open a Q3Offline game document, simply click the button for the game document on the toolbar. If you hold down the Ctrl key at the same time, the document will be loaded and Quake III Arena will then be launched with the settings in the document.

The View menu can also be used to open game documents and launch Quake III Arena.