Ventrilo - User

Before you can use Ventrilo you must first create a user account. This account name will be used when you log in to any Ventrilo servers and will be the name displayed to all the other users connected to the same server. All other settings, i.e. servers - bindings - setup info, is associated with a specific user account.

You can create duplicate user name's in effect creating unique profiles for each account but still using the same login name when connecting to a server.

Select

> This pull down list is used for selecting the specific user account that you would like to change the settings on.

New

> Pressing the "New" button will open a new window where you can enter the name for the new user account to be created. All settings for the new account will be initialized to their default values.

Clone

> This button is similar to the "New" button in that it creates a new user account, except that instead of initializing all user settings to their default values the program will clone (copy) the settings as specified by the user in the "Select" pull down and copy them to the new user account name.

Delete

> This button will delete the user account currently displayed in the "Select" pull down window.

Phonetic

> Used for entering a phonetic pronunciation of your login name. If you give a user account a phonetic spelling the phonetic string will be announced through the Text-to-speech engine when ever you generate an event on the server. This input is optional and if you leave it blank then the program will use your login name for all TTS events.

Play

> If you have the TTS engine installed on your system you can press this button to hear what your phonetic spelling will sound like.

Description

> Each user definition can have a description associated with it. This description will be displayed along side the user name on the main window. Very useful when you have duplicate user names and you want to distinguish between the multiple profiles of the same name.

Work Dir

> NOTE: This option should be left empty because it will be removed in future versions of the program.

> It creates way to many headaches for novice users, and since the program now has the popup menu option "View - Working Directory" it makes locating the default Work Dir much easier thus making this option obsolete.