Q3Offline Toolbars
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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.
For the Game toolbar you can also change the bitmap used by the button. Rick click on a button and choose Customise bitmap. See Game Toolbar for more details.
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.
The Main toolbar has the following buttons (if you can't see any of the buttons then right click on the toolbar and select Customise):
Default :
Creates a new document using the default document template.
New :
Creates a new document using the document template
you choose. Same as the File, New menu option.
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.
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.
When you right click on the Game toolbar the popup menu shows the following options:
Opens the Customise Toolbar dialog, which you can use to remove game documents from the Game Toolbar, or to reorder the existing buttons.
The Customise bitmap option allows you to change the bitmap used on the button. Q3Offline is supplied with some sample bitmaps in the Images subdirectory. If you want to use your own bitmaps, follow these guidelines:
Therefore, it is best to use a graphics program to manually resize the bitmap to the desired button image size: either 22 * 22 if you are using large buttons, or 15 * 16 for small buttons. You can then edit the image further in the graphics program, e.g., to add detail lost when shrinking the image.
The Large icons option toggles between large and small icons on the toolbar.
Use the Show text option to switch between displaying and not displaying text on each toolbar button.
Use the Cool buttons option to toggle the "cool" look - buttons are gray until you hover the mouse cursor over them.
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.