Well this is not really advanced, it is the kind of things you start to do when you are getting to know how to use icq and starting to feel comfortable with Gtk+Licq.
Here is information about the file transfer dialog, and things related to file transfers. Information how to start a file transfer is found in the Send and Receive sections.
This section will cover the chat window, and things related to chat. For information on how to start a chat session you can see the Send and Receive sections for chat.
The chat window can have two modes pane mode and irc mode. Which one that will start depends on if you are starting a two person chat or joining a multipart chat. Multipart chat will always use irc mode, pane mode is default for normal chat sessions. You can change the normal chat mode in the menu.
In the top of the chat window you see a two toolbars, in the upper one you may set the style of the current font, the background color and the foreground color. In the second toolbar you can select font, and size of the font. There is also a option menu where you can select a user from your contact list, if you want to invite the user to the current chat session you then press invite. You will then get a send window with the chat message type selected, the current chat session selected. All you have to do is write a nice message and press send.
The pane mode is when you have two big text areas, one for you to write in and one for the remote user to write in. You can have different background and foreground colors and different fonts in both text areas. You can change the font and colors in your area and the remote user can change the font and colors in his text area. You can however override his font and colors by specifying that in the menu, you can then rewrite the remote users area to make the current text readable.
The irc mode is where you write your text on a single line at the bottom of the window. All text written (remote and local) will appear in the same text area, with the sender at the beginning of the text. Here it's your font and colors that is used, the remote users have no influence on this. On the left side is a list of the users that are in this chat session.
If you have a lot of contact on you list, you might want to divide them into groups. Initially there will be two groups friends and family, it's possible to edit the groups to get the categories you like. This is done by selecting Edit Menu from the System function submenu.
To add a user to a group you left-click on the user and select the appropriate group in the Add To Group submenu.
To remove a user from a group you must have the group selected. Then you left-click on the user and select From Current Group in the Remove submenu.
In the group editor you see a list of the groups you currently have and in the same order as they are in the group option menu in the main window. You can select a group an perform actions on that group by clicking on the button that matches the action you like to perform. Note that remove is permanent, you can of course easy recreate a removed group by adding new group. Adding a new group is done by clicking on the Add button, then you must fill in a name in the text field that appears from nowhere. Then you press on the 'Set' button that is next to the name field to create the group. If you don't want to create the new group just press the cancel button at the top. The 'Shift up' and 'Shift down' is just to reorder the groups.
In the lower part of the window there is the default field. In the default field you see the name of the group that is selected when you start Gtk+Licq. It is changed by selecting a group and pressing on the set button next to the field.