Preferences dialog


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The preferences dialog consists of a tab-field, which holds 4 tabs for various user defined settings. These 4 sections are Http, Mirror, Scope and View.

At the bottom of each tab, you will find 3 Buttons named "OK", "Apply" and "Cancel". Inside each tab, you´ll find a Help-Button:

When you click on the OK-Button, changed settings will be updated and the preferences window will close.

Pushing the Apply-Button causes the program to update the changed settings but remain the preferences window on the desktop.

Hitting the Cancel-Button will close the preferences window. When changes were made, they will be discarded.

When you click the Help-Button, the Help window will pop up and give you some information about the folder in which you are currently adjusting the settings.


Folder "Http"

concurrent connections: In this field, you can enter the maximum number of simultaneous connections. Typical values are 4 to 20. When the transmission rate sinks, try enter an higher value to improve performance.

http proxy server: Enter the path to a proxy-server (if needed).
Typical input (e.g.): "proxy.blabla.hello.xy:8000". As you can see, the portnumber of the proxy is seperated from the path by an doubledash. When no proxy is needed, just leave this field blank! 


Folder "Mirror"


Folder "Scope"

For example: You only want WebTree to search in Australia. (Actually, the starting point is not set in the preferences)
  1. Set the include/exclude field to include "search only in ...".
  2. Enter in the "domain or host"-textfield the string ".au" and press the "add"-Button.
  3. This domain will be added to the list "search only in ..."
  4. Click the OK-Button and specify your starting-point in the main window.

Folder "View"

Section "view style"

In Webtree, there are many different viewstyles available to suit your needs. You can choose your favourite and set the type of information, you want to see "at first sight".

Section "show"

Here you can specify what you want to be displayed  in the preview-boxes.
Select the information, you want to see in the little preview-boxes.

Show ordered Documents:  If enabled then ordered documents are shown by WebTree, otherwise only already fetched documents are shown. 


WebTree Help, Werner Schuster - 1997