WebTree - Help & Introduction
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[Back to the roots!]
This is the main window of the WebTree-program. As you can see, there are
several buttons, sliders, text-fields,... to serve the users wishes. The
application is easy-to-use and comfortable to set up. But at first, let´s
explain a few things. In the upper line of the window, you see a buttonlist
with several buttons and a text-field. Under this buttonlist starts the
preview-area and under this area you see the display-area. At the bottom
of the program, you see the statusline, giving important information of
the download process. The philosophy of the screen layout is to ensure
efficient work with this program:
Enter an w3-address, watch the program loading the pages and realize the
rough structure of the links in the preview-area. Now, using the Zoom-slider
lets you adjust the size of the displayboxes in the displaying-area. During
work, the statusline give feedback about the whole fetching-process to
the user.
The Toolbar:
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With the Check-Button, you can open the preferences dialog window.
For further information about adjusting the settings in the preferences,
go to section preferences.
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On the right side of the "Check"button, there are 4 additional buttons.
The first lets you switch on and off the displaying of links in
the displaying-area. The other 3 buttons are used to set the displaying
type of the displaying-area. Just have a try, you will see, how this
works...
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The text-field "Location:" is used for setting up the programs starting-point
for its search. Just enter a valid address and click on "ENTER" to make
the program start its work.
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The slider on the right side of the window, named "Zoom" lets you
zoom in and out the display-area. Whatever, this will not effect the preview-area.
The preview-area:
The preview-area gives you a quick overview of the sturcture and the
layout of the scanned pages. This is useful for optimizing the view in
the display-area (as described below).
The display-area:
This is the big output window of the WebTree application. Every box,
you see, represents a html-page. You can scroll the displaying-area by
clicking on the middle button of your mouse. Attention: As the virtual
position of the viewing area depends on the position of the physical position
of the mouse cursor, starting to scroll may be a bit strange for you. After
some time, you will see, that this method is fast and comfortable, too.
You can do several operations on there boxes. Just click with the right
button of the mouse on a box and a context-sensitive menu will pop up,
letting you choose, which action you want to perform on this html-page.
The context-sensitive menu includes there options:
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Show Info
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Set as new location
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Save page...
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Stop loading Node
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Start loading Node
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Collapse Node
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Expand Node
The statusline:
The statusline holds 4 different parts of information: In the first
field (from the left), you can see the ammount of active connections of
the download process. The second field displays the ammount of postponed
requests. In the next field, information about the current box in the displaying-area
is shown (depending on the position of the mousecursor). Last, but not
least, the field on the right side gives information about the download
process of WebTree.
WebTree-Help, Werner Schuster - 1997