Thanks for evaluating QVCS.  Leave these tips enabled for some useful hints about QVCS features.
QVCS-Pro users can enable IDE integration from the 'Admin/IDE Integration' menu.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Current' means that your copy of the workfile matches the latest revision.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Stale' means that your copy of the workfile is old.  A newer revision has been checked in to the archive.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Your copy changed' means that you have made changes to your copy of the workfile, and there have been no other changes checked in.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Missing' means that your copy of the workfile is missing.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Different' means that your copy of the workfile does not match the latest revision in the archive.  The difference may be because you have made edits or because someone has checked in a new revision.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Merge required' means that you have made edits to the workfile and someone else has checked in changes after you got the copy of the workfile that you have changed.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Not controlled' means that the workfile is not under version control.
A 'Workfile status' of 'Obsolete' means that the archive for the workfile has been marked obsolete.
You can use the toolbar combo box to quickly change the file filter that is used for filtering the files that appear in the file list panel.  Use the 'Reports and Filters/Maintain Named File Filters' menu to define your own named file filters.
You can display all the files of a project and its subdirectories by clicking on the 'Recurse' toolbar button.
If you enter a comment when you checkout or lock a file, that comment becomes the default checkin comment when you checkin your changes.
You can have QWin periodically refresh the display.  See the Admin/Preferences... General tab.
You can change the default project settings for all projects by selecting the "QVCS Projects" root node and then selecting 'Project/Edit Settings...' menu command.
You can add your own QVCS tips by editing the tips.txt file in the QVCS executable directory.
You can get QWin to save up to the 9 most recent check-in comments.  Select the Admin/Preferences... menu command, and then look on the Check-In Dialog tab of that dialog box.
QVCS can automatically select the attributes to associate with a new achive based on the file's extension.  See the 'Admin/Edit Attribute Groups...' menu command.
QVCS-Pro users can define triggers to perform their own operation before and/or after a QVCS operation.  See the 'Admin/Preferences...' menu and look at the 'Define Triggers' tab.
If you want to use the $Version$ keyword, make sure to 'get' any files containing it after you've applied the version label.
You can click the Cancel button to stop multiple file operations.
QVCS-Pro users can perform simple drag-and-drop operations on the file list pane.  See the 'Understanding Drag and Drop' help topic for details.
You can double click the column heading boundaries to resize the column to the maximum width of the column contents.
The 'Workfile status' column lets you see at a glance whether your workfiles match the latest revision.
Floating labels are a powerful way to manage and group QVCS archives.  See the "floating labels" glossary entry.
By default, QVCS will use your Windows login name as your QVCS user name.
By using the Comment keyword, QVCS can capture your comments as check-in comments making it easy to add audit trail information to your source.
When journaling is enabled for a QVCS archive, any change to that archive will cause QVCS to add an entry to the project journal file.  The journal file is a simple human readable text file that shows the history of activity for archives in a directory.
You can enable and disable QVCS archive attributes (like keyword expansion, or journaling) separately for each archive.
You can use the -breakall command line option of the qunlock command line utility to break all the locks for a QVCS archive.
QVCS supports "branching".  See the "Branching" help topic for more information.
You can customize the text that QVCS substitutes when it expands the $Copyright$ keyword.  See the Copyright help index entry for more information.
You can change the sort order of the revisions that appear in the Revision Information pane from the Reports and Filters/Define Revision Sort... menu.
You can filter the revisions that appear in the Revision Information pane from the Reports and Filters/Define Revision Filter... menu.
The QVCS help file (qwin3.hlp) has a glossary of QVCS terms.  Check the index for the "Glossary" entry.
The $LogX$ keyword allows you to show just the X most recent revisions in the expanded log.  For example, $Log3$ shows info for just the 3 most recent revisions.
Locking a QVCS archive doesn't change the file read/write attributes of the workfile unless you use the -readwrite command line option, or enable the 'Make workfile read/write' check box.
You can use the qmerge command line utility to merge two different sets of edits of the same file.
Take a look at the "Understanding..." help topics.  They explain some useful project related topics.
The QVCS archive file format is documented in qwin3.hlp.  See the "QVCS Archive File Format" for details.
You can change the comment associated with a revision from the 'File/Modify Revision/Description' menu.
You can change the author associated with a revision from the 'File/Modify Revision/Author' menu.
You can refresh the information on the screen by pressing the F5 key.
You can rebuild the cache file for a given directory by pressing the F4 key.
A "floating label" always points to the most recent revision on the branch that it's associated with.
After you edit a file that you've checked out, the lock symbol on the file list display will change to include a small "delta" triangle after a project refresh (F5).
If the default branch for an archive is different than the TRUNK, QWin3 will display a bitmap that looks like a tree branch for that archive, instead of the normal file bitmap.
QVCS stores the access list for an archive within the archive itself.
To change the access list for all the archives in a project, select the "Project/Modify Archive/Access List" menu command.
If you use keyword expansion, have archive caching enabled, and work in a team, you should try to make sure that all your projects point to the UNC named location for your archives so that all users will have the same keyword expansion for those keywords that refer to the archive location (like the $Log$ keyword).
You can type CTRL-A to select all the files in the file window.
Typing CTRL-H will show or hide the non-controlled files for the current directory.
Use CTRL-G to get the currently selected file.
Use CTRL-K to check out the currently selected file.
Use CTRL-L to lock the currently selected file.
Use ALT-A to add a file to the project.
Use ALT-Z for 'undo checkout'.
You can use the CTRL-DEL to directly delete projects or project files.  Deleting a project from within QWin does NOT delete the archive files for that project.  It simply removes the project definition entries within qwin.ini and the user .ini files.
After selecting a single file in the file pane, typing the ENTER key will invoke the default program for viewing/editing the selected file, and performs the same operation as selecting the File/View menu item.
