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Pulldown Box und die
dazugehörigen editier Tasten
Hauptfunktionstasten (oder ihre gleichwertigen toolbar Tasten)
General usage
Popup menu options
View
User
Miscellaneous
Change
State
Display
Server Admin
Channel
Admin
"?" Status
indicators
Overriding the
default icons
Pulldown Box und die
dazugehörigen editier Tasten:
User Name (Benutzer Name)
Bevor sie Ventrilo benutzen können
müssen sie ein User Name (Benutzer Name) erstellen. Dieser Name wird verwendet
um als den namen verwendet, den sie auf den Servern identiviziert werden
wollen. Alle einstellungen und Bindings (Tasten Programierungen) und Server
adressen werden in diesem User Name gespeichert.
Server
Ein Benutzer kann jede mögliche Zahl der Server definieren, an der sie sich
Connecten können, aber nur ein Server würde zu irgendeiner gegebenen Zeit
aktiv sein. Dieser Listenkasten zeigt den frei editierbaren Namen an, sie
können dann eine IP adresse oder hostname zuortnen.
Bindings (Programmierbare
Tastenbelegungen)
Hier werden Tasten Programme
angezeigt, die ausgewählt werden können die sie zufor einprogramiert haben.
Als Standart zeigt die Pulldown Box (None) an das heißt das keine
Tastenbelegungen einprogrammiert wurden.
Hauptfunktionstasten (oder ihre gleichwertigen toolbar Tasten)
Connect
Diese Taste weist das Programm an, um an den spezifizierten Server im Server Pulldown Box. If
auto-reconnect is enabled in the Setup-Network settings dialog, and a
previously good connection to a server had already been established, then this
button will display a countdown in seconds (along with the word Stop) of when
the program will attempt to automatically reconnect to the server. If the
program is counting down and you want to abort the auto reconnect simply click
on this button again (now displaying the word Stop and the countdown seconds
remaining).
Comment
Once you are connected to a server
pressing this button will allow for entering a comment string that will be
sent to all of the other users on the same server. This comment will be
displayed next to your name in parenthesis. If you or any other users have the
Text-to-speech feature enabled and have the sound events options for Comments
set to TTS, then when you or someone else enters a comment it will be spoken
in Text-to-speech form.
Chat
This button will activate a chat
window that is very similar to IRC (Internet Relay Chat). The chat window has
a hide button which will hide the chat window from view and remove it from
your task bar. However, it will remain active and continue to receive
information. If the chat window is hidden then pressing the Chat button again
will make it visible. When someone has an active chat window open you will see
a "C" in front of their name.
Setup
This button will activate the setup
options for the currently selected user.
Note: If you are connected to a
server and have outgoing voice comm enabled, pressing this button will disable
your microphone from communicating with the rest of the users. However, you
will continue to receive and hear voice streams from the other users. The
microphone will be enabled for normal use once you close setup dialog box.
About
The about button will display the
Ventrilo Version number, Copyright, Author and URL information for the
program. It also has buttons for going to the main Ventrilo.com web site.
Close
The close button will disconnect the
program from any active server and instruct the program to exit the system.
Help
The help button activates this help
page.
Mute Sound
The mute sound check box will mute
all sound being generated by the program. This includes incoming voice comm
traffic, text-to-speech messages, wave file messages, comments and most other
sound generating events. There are several events which intentionally ignore
the mute sound setting. These include connecting and disconnecting from the
server because the user would consider those notifications to be very
important. There is a function in the key bindings setup dialog box that
allows for toggling the mute features.
Mute Microphone/Binds
The mute microphone check box will
prevent your microphone from picking up any sound. The program will continue
to monitor the microphone but it will not transmit any sounds that it picks
up. There is a function in the key bindings setup dialog box that allows for
toggling the mute features.
When checked this option will also
prevent any wave file binds or Text-to-speech binds from being sent out to the
rest of the users.
General usage
In Figure 1 you will see an example
of what the program looks like when connected to a server.
The first entry in the active users
window is always the name of the server and any comments that the
administrator has assigned to it.
The speaker icon indicates that an
item is a user and the color green indicates that he is transmitting.
The blue and red cross icon's
indicates public and private channels. If you double click on a channel name
the server will move you into that channel and you will only hear sounds being
generated by other users in the same channel. Likewise, the only people that
will hear you are those that are in the same channel. In order to return to
the lobby simply double click the server name. You can also bind keys to
switch channels at any time. See the bindings setup page for more details on
switching channels binds.
Double clicking on another users
name will move you into the same channel they are in.
Figure 1
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Version 2.3.0 introduces a better
user administration feature that uses standard drag and drop techniques.
Server admin's can grab any user and
drag them to any channel or back out to the lobby. This also means that you
can drag them to a password protected channel so that you can communicate with
them without giving them the password.
Channel admin's can grab any user
that resides within a channel for which they have channel admin rights and
move them to any other channel for which they have admin rights. This includes
all sub-channels. For example, you might have a channel that has two sub
channels but you have admin rights to the root channel. The two sub-channels
might be password protected as well. If the user manually joins the root
channel then you as the channel admin could then drag him into any of the
sub-channels, including the password protected channels, thus allowing the
user to communicate with others in the passworded channels but without giving
the user the channel password. Note: Channel admin's can move users out to the
lobby but they can drag a user from the lobby into a channel.
The Server Properties has an option
to select how the channels are ordered. If the that option is set to "Manual"
then a server admin or channel admin can drag a channel up and down and drop
it on a parallel channel to the change the display order of the channels. If a
server admin grabs a root channel that contains sub-channels and users within
those channels then all sub-channels and users will be moved as well.
Popup menu options
In Figure 2 you will see the pop up
menu that is created when you right click in the main window. The options
above the divider line are meant for all users, while the options below the
divider are meant for server and channel administrators.
The menus are context sensitive and
some options will be grayed out depending on what you have clicked on, whether
it be the server name, a channel name, a user name or possibly outside of the
user list window entirely (which is supported as of version 2.3.0).
Figure 2
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View
Working directory
This option will open a new "Windows
Explorer" window and will display the contents of the working directory for
the currently selected User Name. This is a very easy and convenient way to
locate the directories for wave files binds, stream recording files, the Icon
override directory and other items that pertain to the configuration of the
program.
Log file
This option will open the current
state of the program log file by starting a copy of the system notepad
program. Please note that each entry in the log file is time stamped and that
you will need to scroll to the end of the log file in order to find the most
recent event warnings or errors.
Server browser
This option will open the built-in
server browser window. If the window is already open but is obscured by other
windows you can select this option again to bring it to the foreground.
Record / Playback
This option will open the recording
and playback window which is used for recording voice conversations and
playing back recordings of prior conversations. If the window is already open
but is obscured by other windows you can select this option again to bring it
to the foreground.
Toolbar mode
This option will toggle the program
between Toolbar mode and default mode. Default mode is what the window looks
when you install it for the first time where you have the large buttons down
the right hand side of the window. Toolbar mode removes these large buttons
and displays a new iconic toolbar up by the XMIT and PING indicators. Toolbar
mode is very useful for maximizing window space horizontally.
Extended mode
This option will toggle between
extended mode and default mode. Default mode is what the window looks like
when you install it for the first time where you have the 3 pulldown windows
and the associated edit buttons at the top. Extended mode removes these
pulldown windows and edit buttons completely and moves the XMIT / PING
indicators to the top of the window thus vertically maximizing the window real
estate space.
Grid lines
This option will toggle the grid
lines in the user display window on and off. These grid lines are what you
would normally see in the Windows Explorer when viewing the contents of your
hard drive, where directories are nested under other directories and there
little dotted lines showing the parent / child relationship.
Title bar
This option will toggle the Title
bar on and off. When the Title bar is turned off it further extends the
useable space of the window. Please note that you can still move the window
around the screen while the title bar is turned off by left clicking in any
open space of the window that doesn't have any purpose. Clicking in the XMIT /
PING area is the most logical place to grab the window if you wish to drag it
around.
Border
This option will toggle the window
sizing border on and off, but its only valid when the Title bar is turned off.
Turning off the sizing border will prevent you from resizing the window and
will give the program window a "flat" look and feel, as if the window was part
of some other application. Note: You can still move the window around but you
can not resize it.
User
Mute
Right clicking on a users name lets
you enable or disable muting of that specific user. You will continue to
receive the sound events generated by the user but Ventrilo will not play
them. When a user is muted an "M" will appear in front of their name.
Copy comment
When clicked on a user name it will
copy the users current comment to the system clipboard.
Send Page
When clicked on a user name it will
send a "Page" to the selected user. As of version 2.2.0 this will produce a
TTS message on the target clients computer to say "Page from X" where X is the
name of the person sending the page.
If the target user does is not want
to be paged or is in a channel that has paging disabled an error will popup
telling you that the selected user can not be paged.
Miscellaneous
Copy channel path
When clicked on a channel name the
program will copy the correct syntax for making reference to the given
channel. This is important when clicking on sub channels as the formatting
will look like the following:
Channel/Sub-channel/another-sub-channel
This is left over from version 2.2.
Starting with version 2.3 the binds editor has helper buttons for selecting
specific channels making this option obsolete.
Clear channel passwords
This option will erase all channel
passwords that have been remembered for the current server.
Special effects
This option will open the Special
Effects setup window which allows you to apply special sound effects such
as reverb or echo to the selected item in the user list window. You can also
perform more advanced tasks as adjusting the volume for the item or applying
3D surround sound directional properties to the item to create a more
immersive and vibrant communication experience.
Special effects are unique and
persistent to the item you clicked on when this option was activated. This
applies to users, channels and the server name. You can also apply global
special effects to the User Name account by clicking the SFX button in the
Setup-Voice window.
Add / Remove phantom
This option will either add a
phantom user to the selected channel or remove an existing phantom. Phantoms
allow you to listen in on other channels while you are currently in a
different channel. A phantom user will show up with your logon name but a "P"
will be in front of it denoting it as a phantom to you and all the other users
connected to the server. Phantoms are persistent and will be restored when you
reconnect to the same server. Note: Each phantom will consume a connection
slot on the server.
Change state
Accept pages
Allows you to dynamically toggle the
option of accepting pages vs. your default setting as specified in the
connection editor for the current server.
Allow User-to-user communications
Allows you to dynamically toggle
whether or not another user can transmit directly to you using the
User-to-user transmit mode. The default of this option is specified in your
connection editor for each server.
Allow others to record my
conversation
Determines if anyone is allowed to
record your conversation. The default of this option is specified in your
connection editor for each server.
Starting with version 2.3.0
recording and playback of conversations is now supported.
Display
Expand
When clicked on a channel it will
expand that one channel to what is currently underneath it. It does not expand
all sub-channels.
Expand All
When clicked on a channel it will
expand that one channel and all of it's nested sub-channels.
When clicked on the server or an
open space it will expand all channels and their nested sub-channels.
Collapse
When clicked on a channel it will
collapse that single channel and all of it's sub-channels.
Collapse All
Can be clicked anywhere and all
channels and associated sub-channels will be collapsed.
Server Admin
Login / Logout
This option will open a window in
which you can enter the administrator password for the server. If the server
accepts the password the "A" indicator will show up on the server name at the
top of the list indicating that you are now a server administrator. If the
server rejects the password then a popup message will be displayed.
If you are currently logged in as a
server admin then this option will be displayed as "Logout" and can be used
for removing server admin rights for your current connection.
Kick
Right clicking on a user and
choosing the kick option will open a window where you can enter a reason for
kicking the user off of the server. If you then press the OK button it will
send the request to the server which will then disconnect that user. This
information is logged by the server and includes details like: The user who
was kicked, who kicked them, the reason why if one is provided.
Ban
The ban option is similar to the
kick option except that the users IP address will be recorded in a ban file
for future reference if the server is restarted. Once in the ban list that IP
address will not be allowed to connect to the server.
Ban list
This option will open a new window
which allows you to see who is currently banned from the entire server. It
will also allow you to add new bans and delete existing ones.
Globally Mute
Globally mute or un-mute the
selected user. When globally muted a user will have a "G" next to their name
and they will not be able to transmit any voice, TTS binds, Wave file binds,
change their comment or send any Chat messages. This can be useful for when
you don't need to kick the user off of the server but don't want them to
interrupt anything else.
MOTD
This option can be selected by
anyone. If you are not a server admin it will display the last known Message
of the Day when you connected to the server. In case you need to see it again
but don't want to disconnect and then reconnect.
If you are logged in as a server
admin it will allow you to edit the Message of the Day and send it back to the
server so that when a client connects that will be the message they see.
User Editor
This will open a new window that
allows you to see who is in the USR file. The USR file can be used to reserve
login names and their associated passwords. It can also be used for
restricting who is allowed to transmit in a given channel, as determined by
the channel options.
RCon
This option will open the dedicated
Remote Console window for issuing text commands to the server. Prior to
version 2.3 this was performed by preceding commands in the Chat window the
/rcon.
Server Properties
This option will open the Server
Properties window which is used for modifying the persistent configuration
options that define how the server should function.
Channel Admin
Login / Logout
An admin password can be assigned to
any channel, but normal use would be to assign a channel admin password to
each of the root channels and then give the admin password to a specific
person who accepts responsibility for that specific channel and it's
associated sub-channels. Note: Only server admin's can assign channel admin
passwords to root level channels, but a channel admin can assign additional
admin passwords to any of his sub-channels.
When right clicked on a channel a
dialog box will open where you can enter the channel admin password for the
selected channel. If the server accepts your password then an "A" will appear
next to that channel indicating that you now have channel admin rights for it
and all of it's sub-channels. If one of it's sub-channels has another admin
password then you will still have access rights over it i.e. higher level
admin's always have access rights to lower level admin's, but lower level
admin's don't have access rights above their current channel.
If you already have admin rights to
the channel then selecting this option will remove your admin rights for the
current connection.
Note: Starting with version 2.3.0
channel admin's are persistent and the admin right will be automatically
restored when you reconnect to the same server.
Create
When right clicked on the server
item in the user list window the program will create a root channel. Although,
only server admin's can create root channels.
When right clicked on a channel the
program will create a sub-channel in side of it. Server admin's can do this by
default in any channel and channel admin's can do this for any channel for
which they have logged in with the selected channels admin password.
The option will open a new dialog
box where you can enter the new channels Display name, phonetic pronunciation
name, channel password and the admin password. If you do not give it a channel
password then the channel is available to anyone unless one of it's parent
channels has a password on it. Sub-channels of a password protected channel
inherit the password of it's parent until it reach's the lobby. Thus, if no
parent channel's have passwords then the new channel will be available to
everyone.
Delete
When right clicked on a channel it
will delete the selected channel and all of it's sub-channels if any exist.
Any users in the selected channel or sub-channels will be automatically moved
to the next highest channel or to the lobby as a last resort.
Edit
When right clicked on a channel it
will allow you to selectively change specific portions of a channels details.
All changes take effect immediately and all clients are informed about the
changes.
Info
When right clicked on a channel it
will open a new window and display the current configuration settings for the
selected channel, but you will not be able to change of them. This option can
be selected by anyone even though it appears in the Channel Admin sub-menu.
Kick
When right clicked on a user, and
you have channel admin rights for the channel the selected user is in, then
that user will be kicked from the server.
Ban add
When right clicked on a user, and
you have channel admin rights for the channel the selected user is in, it will
open a new window asking for the reason to ban the user. At which point the
users IP address will be added to the channel ban list.
This option is only available to a
root level channel admin. If you are a sub-channel admin then you will not be
able to use this feature.
Ban list
When right clicked on a channel it
will display the current list of IP addresses that have banned from the root
level channel. Only root level channel admin's can view or edit channel ban
lists.
Mute
When clicked on a user it will
either mute or un-mute the selected user while they are in their current
channel. Useful for when a channel is configured for "Muted" mode and a
channel admin wants to un-mute them so that they can talk. Can also be used to
silence annoying people while they are in a normal channel.
If a user is channel muted an "N"
will appear next their name.
"?" Status indicators
When connected to a server some of
the items in the user list window will have special status indicators in front
of their names and surrounded by double quotes. The following is a list of
what each of those status codes mean.
A
When displayed in front of the
server name it means you have server admin rights. When displayed in front of
a channel it means you have admin rights for the specified channel and all of
it's sub-channels.
C
The specified user has opened their
chat window.
N
The user is channel muted. The state
might change depending on how the channel is configured.
G
The user is globally muted and will
not be bothering anyone on the server.
M
The user is locally muted by you
only and nothing he says or does will be played on your local system.
T
The user has sent a Text-to-speech
(TTS) bind message and it is currently playing. When the message is complete
the indicator will be removed.
W
The user has sent a Wave file bind
message and it is currently playing. When the wave file completes the
indicator will be removed.
S
A Special Effect
has been applied to the specified item. This can be on a server, a channel or
individual users.
P
The user is a Phantom of a user that
has the same name.
Overriding the default
icons:
Starting with version 2.3.0 you can
override the default icons that are displayed in the active users window. You
can also override the toolbar icons as well. In order to override the icons
you must abide by the following rules.
1) The icon must be 16x16 and no
higher then 256 colors.
2) The icons files them selves must
be in the default working directory. If you have overridden the WorkDir when
you created your User Name then that working directory will not work. We
strongly recommend that you not override the User Name WorkDir anyway as that
feature will be be removed in future versions.
3) The program must be restarted for
the override icon files to take effect.
To locate the location of the
default working directory all you need to do is start the program, right click
in the window, select View and then select the Working Directory option. This
will open the Windows Explorer window and will take you directly to the
correct location on your hard drive. In this window you will see a folder
named "icons". Double click it as that is where you will need to place the
override icon files. If you plan on experimenting its best just to leave the
Windows Explorer window open while you make changes and start / stop the
program.
If you do not provide the following
filename(s) then the program will use the default copy of the icon. This way
you chose which icons to override.
This table is for the icons
that appear in the User List window.
File name
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Purpose
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server.ico
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The server icon at the top of the user list window when connected
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channel.ico
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Non password protected channel that has not been expanded (Closed)
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voiceoff.ico
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User icon who is not transmitting
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voiceon.ico
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User icon who IS transmitting
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chanpass.ico
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Password protected channel that has not been expanded (Closed)
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channelopen.ico
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Non password protected channel that has been expanded (Open)
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chanpassopen.ico
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Password protected channel that has been expanded (Open)
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This table is for the main
toolbar.
File name
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Purpose
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mtbconnect.ico
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Connect to server
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mtbdisconnect.ico
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Disconnect from server
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mtbrecon1.ico
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Part 1 of animated reconnect button
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mtbrecon2.ico
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Part 2 of animated reconnect button
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mtbrecon3.ico
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Part 3 of animated reconnect button
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mtbrecon4.ico
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Part 4 of animated reconnect button
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mtbcomment.ico
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Send a comment to the server
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mtbchat.ico
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Open the Chat window
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mtbsetup.ico
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Open the Setup window
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mtbabout.ico
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Open the About window
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mtbclose.ico
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Close the program
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mtbhelp.ico
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Open the main windows Help page
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mtbextenddown.ico
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Disable extended mode
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mtbextendup.ico
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Enable extended mode
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