Since a lot of changes has been made, the version has moved from 1.1 to 2.0

Many new features suggested added, and many others aswell.

It doesn't include updated help files.

License : FreeWare
Author : Aliminium
Email :
Technology : Java 1.6 and higher
Libraries : xpCommon.jar, sqlitejdbc.jar
Date : 19/08/2010
Version : 2.0
Compatibility : Excessiveplus 2.0 and higher

Version 2.0 :
Add : Edit menu
This was previously in the name's text field's popup, now it is also on menu
It has more editing tools

Add : Filter menu
You can now filter a part of code (colors, effects, etc...)
If no code is selected, all code is transformed, else, only selected code is transformed

Add : Tools menu
It offers a very interesting set of tools

Chg : Options menu
It has been replaced with Display menu

Chg : swatches removed from color selector

Add : a text field has been added for Custom color in the color selector

Chg : old code panel splited into name & country panels

Chg : effects buttons changed to smaller and more designed

Add : current letter mode displayer

Add : team color's button in effects panel

Add : added button to update preview
It has shortcut aswell and is present in Display menu

Add : 2nd mode to choose a country
A country text field where you can type the country's code

Add : 3rd mode to choose a country
The country flag is now click-able and pops up a visual flags selection

Chg : new intermediate parser added for faster code edition

Fix : some old parser's bug fixed

Add : Letter mode
It is present in both Edit menu and name textfield's popup and has shortcuts
It modifies the lower case letters typed from a to z as follow :

[*}Normal : lower case typed letters remain intact [*}Style 2 : lower case typed letters are transformed to e+ 2.0 letters style
[*}Style 3 : lower case typed letters are transformed to old e+ letters style

Add : Switch char code
It is present in both Edit menu and name textfield's popup
It added to Y position in char map 8 or reduces 8
If no code is selected, all code is transformed, else, only selected code is transformed

Add : Team color mode
It is present in both Display menu
It changes the team of the player to see how the code changes depending on (^t)

Add : Color gradient tool
It is present in Tools menu
It removes all present colors and generates a gradient color
based on a couple of start color/BGcolor and ending with a couple of end color/BGcolor
A button can switch start & end colors/bgColors
If no code is selected, all code is copied, else, only selected code is copied for modification
On validating the generated code, if the original code was not selected, it is replaced,
else, only the selected code is replaced

Add : Alpha gradient tool
It is present in Tools menu
It can keep code's colors or generate new ones as Color gradient tool does
but it adds a start alpha and an end alpha
If no code is selected, all code is copied, else, only selected code is copied for modification
On validating the generated code, if the original code was not selected, it is replaced,
else, only the selected code is replaced

Add : Qname generator tool
It is present in Tools menu
It has many steps for generating a name and could be generating on a single shot
There are some options as number of chars to generate
or probabilities that a color/bgColor/effect is added before each char code
If no code is selected, all code is copied, else, only selected code is copied for modification
On validating the generated code, if the original code was not selected, it is replaced,
else, only the selected code is replaced

Add : Old Qname converter tool
It is present in Tools menu
I don't know if some people have still old code in their cfgs, but here is a tool to convert it.
Anyway, if you load an old qname code with File > Open , it is converted automatically.

Chg : new Save to gif advanced popup
The way of selecting the options has changed.

Add : some shortcuts has been added

[*}F5 : to refresh the preview [*}F8 : to switch the team color mode (Neutral, red or blue)
[*}F9 : to switch the preview mode (16x16 or 32x32)
[*}Alt+1 : to switch to Letter mode Normal
[*}Alt+2 : to switch to Letter mode Style 2
[*}Alt+2 : to switch to Letter mode Style 3

Chg : About all the code has been reorganized for a better re-usability

Fix : a file parser's bug
It's really strange that no one has ever detected this issue, by loading q3config.cfg on Windows

Fix : loading performances increased

Version 1.1 :
Chg : Countries.properties file is no more needed, now countries are read directly from the sqlite ipdb.db file within excessiveplus folder

Chg : the name of the jar is renamed to simply xpQname.jar

Chg : the help files (htm and text) and readme are now placed on docs folder

Add : a new folder (lib) has apeared where shared libraries are placed

Version 1.0 Final :
Fix : Small tooltip bug in alpha effect

Add : Text and htm help files

Version 1.0 :
Fix : 100% old name cvar compatibility

Add : Help menu item trys to open a file called XP_Qname_help.txt
But none helped me to make it, so I will let community create it.

Add : Gif Quality setting in option

Fix : Open file read most common encoding as UTF-8

Fix : Some minor bugs fixed

Version 0.999 :
Add : Open/close config file (even old Qname version name cvar)
When opening a config file parses name, xp_name and xp_country and keeps all other lines to be saved later
The old Qname cvar is parsed and transformed to new one (has to be tested a lot)

Add : save to gif image
The background color will be the custom selected color (so change it before to click as you like)

Add : Glow and thin effects
When you select thin effect(^l), the charmap changes, to see what is the character to add

Add : The preview mode has been added.
16x16 is a small character map
32x32 is a bigger character map (default to see well)
it can be changed in options

Add : Copy/Cut/Paste/SelectAll popup Menu in the code field

Chg : The preview is now updated every 2secs if there are changes in the code

Fix : The preview generator has been totally renewed to fit better Q3 one

Fix : Errors and exceptions management has been improved a lot

Chg : All the code has been reorganised to easier updates and open the door to futur tools

Version 0.981 :
moved to graphical java application
the application is supposed to be incorporated to e+

new charmap characters is fully supported
improved full color support
all effects supported except glow and thin
possibility to insert/replace selected text code
characters from #20 to #7e can be writen directly in code (space included) :

   ________________ 
  |                | 
  | !"#$%&'()*+,-./| 
  |0123456789:;<=>?| 
  |@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO| 
  |PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_| 
  |`abcdefghijklmno| 
  |pqrstuvwxyz{|}~ | 
  |________________| 

code can be copy/pasted in xp_name
xp_country code can be selected and the flag drawn
save/save the config in a file supported
fully commented element titles (just point on an element and it will give you a hint)
preview draws all characters/colors/and effects(execpt the 2 missings)
you can be linked directly to e+ website through a menu button

the gif generator update to fix the anti-aliasing issue
more options to set in the config.

You need before using qname to install java runtime environment 1.6 or higher.
You can download java here : ( http://www.java.com/download ).
And as this tool is made for e+ 2.0, you must have it too installed

Then extract the zip in excessiveplus/tools folder within Quake3Arena folder.

As java is platform free, it can be run in any Operating System.

On windows execute xpQname.jar by doucle clicking it.

On command line (linux or windows or any system having java 1.6), use :

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  java -jar xpQname.jar [excessiveplusFolderPath]
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where default excessiveplusFolderPath is ..(parent folder) if not set

On other platforms including mac, you must know how to run more than me

This tool is totally new and made from nothing to fit some needs.

I want to thank :
E+ team for the game.
Beast for informations given.
Epsilon & Illca for testing, analysing and debugging.
GreenGirl for the designed work.
Killer for providing the help.
All people who gave suggestions and feedback.
All testers.
Community for patience.

Enjoy.