The Chat panel allow you to send/receive plain text messages and files of any size with recovery if interrupted. To write a message use the down text-box. The size of the the top chat-view can be changed with respect to the down text-box dragging the boundary between them.

• Use the enter button to switch on/off auto send on enter.
  If send-on-enter is on, to insert a line break in a message jast hold the <Ctrl> while pressing the <Enter> key;
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  Use the send button (or the <Enter> key if sen-on-enter is on) to send the text message;
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  Use the send-file button to send a file;

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  Use the send-file button to open the send file dialog;
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  Use the browse button to select the file to send;
• click the Start button to begin sending the file.

Upon receiving the file request, this popup dialog will show up to the peer:

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  Use the browse button to select where and with which name to save the file;
  

click the Start button to begin downloading the file.

Both the sender and the receiver will see the download progress:

The dialog is not blocking, so you can continue chatting or even sending another file.

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