Notification Window

Notification window is intended for instant notification once new posts are detected. It contains information summary and several controls for single-click access for the functions you may want to use once you're notified. It automatically pops-up when new posts are detected. The other ways by which this window can be accessed are selecting View > Show recent post updates main menu item or pressing Ctrl+Alt+S (Both this methods are usable only if any new posts are detected within current session).

Notification window looks like the one displayed on the screenshot #1 . The top panel contains following elements (from left to right): "Reply to group" button can be used to send reply directly to the group. "Reply to sender" button is similar to the previous one except that "Reply To" variable string will be added at the beginning of your post. When working with usenet newsgroups pressing on this button will create new message using default e-mail client. "Reply with quote" (optional) button is intended for replying with quotation. Label which displays item count of recent post updates list and current position in this list. Four list navigation buttons can be used to switch to first, previous, next and last item correspondingly.

Screenshot #1

Main area of the window contains following elements (from top to bottom):

• Label which contains posting date and time of the last message of the thread.
• Underlined label which contains the name of the community in which new posts have been detected can be used to open such community in browser (newsreader).
• Underlined label which contains the name of the group  in which new posts have been detected can be used to view topic list of such group.
• Underlined label which contains the name of the topic  in which new posts have been detected can be used to view post list of such topic.
• Label which contains the name of the last post¹ sender.
• Text box with last post¹ text.

¹ - the last post means the post which was sent the last within given thread except your ones and those which are blocked by the black list options.

See also:

    Interface basics, Main window.