How to Start/Hold a Conversation

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To start a conversation with someone on your users list, perform the following steps:

Restore Softros LAN Messenger from the system tray first. This can be done in two ways:
1) click Messenger's tray icon once using the left mouse button (Picture ), restoring Messenger's main window (Picture ); or

2) right-click Messenger's icon in the system tray menu (Picture ), then select “Restore” from the pop-up menu, again restoring Messenger's main window (Picture ).
Choose a user from the list (see Picture ). Again, you have two ways to do this:
1) Left-click the user name once. You will immediately see the “Conversation” window (Picture ); or
2) Right-click the selected user to show the “user's pop-up menu”. Select “Conversation” from the pop-up menu and the “Conversation” window (Picture ) will appear.

You will see the following conversation window:

At the top of this window is the history of your conversation. At the bottom of the window you can type your messages and send them by clicking the “Send” button or pressing the “Enter” key on the keyboard (by default) or the “Ctrl+Enter” key combination, depending on your hot-keys settings.
You also can send multi-line messages by clicking the “Ctrl+Enter” key combination (by default) or just the “Enter” key depending on your hot-keys settings.

Toolbar description:

– View User’s History – click this button to browse the messaging history for this user.
– Get User’s Information – shows you user information for this person.
– Close – will close the conversation window. By default, Softros LAN Messenger will keep the 20 latest messages (in memory) of your conversations for each person you have contacted. Every time you begin a conversation with a person with whom you have had a previous conversation, Softros LAN Messenger will show these 20 previous messages. You may disable this function in the settings.

Receiving messages in conversation mode

Every time you receive a message, you will see the following flashing taskbar button:

Click the flashing taskbar button to open the conversation window.