QView 1.02 Readme.txt
30 September 1996

Changes/Additions to QView 1.02:
Made retrieving player info much faster.
Prevent same server from being added more than once to a single server group.
Fixed bug where search strings were not being saved.


Changes/Additions to QView 1.01:
Better stopping of servers/groups being refreshed.
QView now can search for servers and/or players by name.
QView now retrieves rules for servers if so desired.
Any right pane view in QView can be sorted by any column.
Window sizes and column sizes are restored upon launching QView.
Description bars added above left and right views (can be disabled).
General efficiency improved.


QView Overview:

QView 1.01 is a Win32 application that displays real-time statistics of Quake servers and the players playing 
on those servers.  QView is multi-threaded and features auto-refresh of servers and/or groups of servers.  
QView can read IP addresses from any HTML page (given a URL) and will search the found addresses for 
Quake servers.  You can also add servers manually to a group of servers.

QView can also exclude players when refreshing server statistics in order to speed up the searching speed.  
Using the auto server refresh option, you can watch a deatchmatch in progress.  QView will even show you 
the players’ colors and rank them according to frags or names.  The server list can be ordered by name, ping 
time, or current players.



QView Quick Reference:

Installation:
Until I write an installation program, do the following:
1.  Unzip QView.zip
2.  Copy the .dll’s to your windows\system (or winnt35\system32) directory.
3.  Put QView where ever you plan to run it from.
4.  Launch QView.

Getting QView to do something useful:
1.  If you want to customize the way QView looks for IP addresses, choose Refresh | Edit Rebuild Options.  
You can enter IP addresses and/or URLs, separated by carriage returns.  QView defaults to a known IP 
address and Stomped’s server list.
2.  Now choose Refresh | Rebuild Group.  Once QView retrieves the URL’s (if any) it will start gathering 
data about the servers found.  As Quake servers are found, the server icons get a blue Q in front of 
them.  A question mark means the information isn’t known yet.
3.  By default, QView displays players.  If you want to speed up the server refreshing, you can turn
off player information by toggling the player mode.  Choose Refresh | Options | Include Players.  
Once you find a server you are interested in, you can turn Include Players back on.
4.  If you want to watch a deathmatch in progress, select a server from the tree and choose Refresh | 
Options | Automatic Server Refresh.  Be sure and turn on Include Players and select the server you 
want in the tree so QView will show all the players for the server you’re interested in.  You can also 
refresh servers and groups manually by choosing Refresh | Options | Manual Refresh and then choosing 
the appropriate refresh option under Refresh.
5.  To connect to a server, select a server and choose View | Launch Quake!  If your quake installation is 
somewhere other than c:\quake, choose View | Launch Options and modify the Quake directory to 
reflect your own setup.
6.  Once you’ve built a server list you like (you can also delete servers from the list if you don’t think you 
want all the servers returned by the URL’s), you can save the servers to a .QVW file.  Then, next time 
you launch QView, you can open that file instead of having to rebuild the server list from the URL’s.

Play with the options in QView and, if you have time, let me know what you think.  Comments and/or 
suggestions can be sent to:

Steve_Otteson@ccm.ut.intel.com

This product is not supported or endorsed by Intel Corp. in any way.