A browse window displays proofs of images.
On the right side of the window is a scrollable area where proofs are displayed. On the left side is the attribute selection area, which is used to select which proofs are displayed in the browse window from the loaded proofs. The attribute selection area can be turned on and off, allowing more room for proofs. An optional toolbar can also be displayed in the top of the window.
If you are unsure of what each gadget in the toolbar does, position the mouse over the gadget and a help bubble appears.
When a new path to display is passed to a browse window, PhotoFolio begins by scanning the path and counting how many files it finds. When counting is complete it then attempts to load each file in the path. If an unrecognised file is found (e.g. a text or executable file) then the count is decremented, the file skipped and an error registered with the error window.
PhotoFolio recognises the difference between proofs and images, consequently you can mix the two in the same directory.
The scanning of a directory in a browse window, which establishes what files are to be checked as images and/or proofs, can take a long time for large directories or slow devices. Closing a browse window or clicking stop during a scan cancels the loading of the path.
After scanning all the files in the directory to load, PhotoFolio sorts the files in the order specified by the sort mode. Therefore if loading is paused or page mode is entered the display stills show proofs in the correct order.
If a proof is encountered it is loaded and displayed. In this case, first line of the proof text will be bold. This indicates the proof is a saved proof and has not been generated on the fly from an image file. (The font used for text displayed beneath the proof can be changed in the settings window.)
If an image is encountered it is loaded, scaled, converted to a proof and displayed. Notice the first line of the proof text is not bold. (Unsaved proofs can also have a red square displayed in the bottom right hand corner of them in case you are displaying proofs without a text description.) This newly created proof is not stored anywhere, it exists in memory. If it is not saved before closing the browse window or before a new path is dropped onto the browse window, the proof is lost.
Closing a browse window closes all attached windows (e.g. information windows). If you need an information window to stay open after the browse window is closed, remember to detach it first.
Proofs can be selected by single clicking on them and deselected by clicking on them again.
If proofs are hidden using hide questionable they do not participate in select/deselect operations.
Proofs can be sorted using the sort menu items or the small popup gadget next to the sort status line in the bottom of the browse window.
Double clicking a proof shows the image in a show window. The viewer used can be configured in the settings window. Double clicking an already selected proof does not affect its selected state.
The save status of a proof is indicated the following ways.
· A proof with bold text has been saved.
· A proof without bold text has not been saved.
· A proof without a red square in the bottom right hand corner has been saved.
· A proof with a red square in the bottom right hand corner has not been saved.
The load process can be stopped at any time by clicking the stop button in the bottom of the window or by closing the browse window. Loading can also be paused and resumed.
If the safety memory limit is reached while loading, the load stops, a low memory error is displayed and page gadgets appear in the bottom of the browse window.
PhotoFolio tries to guess how many pages of proofs are left. We must stress that it is only a guess because due to the Amigas multitasking ability, the amount of free memory can vary. For example you may launch another application while a page of proofs is displayed hence the free memory is lower than when you started and the page count will increase. Therefore don't count on the fact that a page will contain the same number of proofs all the time!
Right clicking on a proof shows the proof context menu.
Right clicking on an empty area of the browse window shows the selected proofs context menu. This menu contains operations that act on multiply selected proofs.
Proofs can be dragged from one browse window to another. To drag a single proof, make sure it is not selected and click and drag on the text below the proof. When a selected proof is dragged, all selected proofs are dragged.
To drag more than one proof, select the proofs to drag and then click and drag on the text of any one of the selected proofs. Dragging proofs shows in the image being dragged, the total number of proofs being dragged.
Proofs can be dropped in the following places:
· Browse windows
· Show windows
· Path list in the main window
The upper portion of the attribute selection area (current owner, group and category list) is explained fully in the change attributes window section.
After selecting categories in the list (use the shift key to select more than one), and choosing a match mode, proofs that match the category selection can be displayed.
The match mode specifies how the selected categories are applied during the selection process.
Update applies the category selection to the proofs visible in the browse window. This allows more specific category matches to be applied for proof display.
All redisplays all proofs in the browse window allowing a new selection set to be applied to all proofs in the browse window.
The browse window´s menu contains the following items that operate on the project, new windows, proofs in the browse window, browse window settings and program settings.
The project menu contains items that operate globally on the current project.
Opens the program About window.
Opens the about MUI window.
All PhotoFolio windows are closed and a PhotoFolio icon appears on the Workbench.
Double clicking on the iconified PhotoFolio icon reopens all PhotoFolio windows and continues operating.
If confirm quit is enabled, a requester appears asking for confirmation before quitting.
The window menu contains items that open new windows and manipulate the error window.
Opens a new empty browse window.
Opens a new empty information window.
The sub menu contains a list of image grabbing options that are currently available.
Selecting VLab opens a VLab grabbing window. This option appears ghosted if VLab hardware is not found or the VLab software is incorrectly installed.
Opens and closes the error window. The tick mark (Ö) indicates the current status of the error window (open or closed).
Displays errors generated from this browse window in the error window.
The proof menu contains items that operate on proofs in the browse window.
If proofs are hidden using hide questionable they do not participate in select/deselect operations.
Selects all the proofs currently displayed.
Opens a pattern select window, allowing selection of proofs using the AmigaDOS pattern matching system.
Deselects all the proofs currently displayed.
Selects all the proofs that have not been saved.
Toggles all the selected proofs to deselected and vice versa.
Shows all the currently selected proofs in a show window.
Copies all the currently selected proofs to a new location. If a file already exists in the destination directory, several options are presented as to how to overwrite now and for other files.
A progress window opens during the copy process.
Move all the currently selected proofs to a new location. If a file already exists in the destination directory, several options are presented as to how to overwrite now and for other files.
A progress window opens during the move process.
Corrects the gamma of all the currently selected proofs.
A progress window opens during the correct gamma process.
Changes the attributes of all the currently selected proofs using a change attributes window.
Saves all the currently selected proofs.
A progress window opens during the save process.
Saves all the images associated with the currently selected proofs.
A progress window opens during the save process.
Saves the images the proofs represent in a browse window that originate from Base64 or UUencoded files (e.g. from email attachments or NNTP servers) as decoded files. The ASL requester allows selection of a destination directory. The filename of the saved image is the name stored with the encoded data, not the filename of the proof.
A progress window opens during the save process.
Retargets all the currently selected proofs.
Non-linked proofs encountered during retargeting are skipped.
A progress window opens during the retarget process.
Opens a rename window where the selected proofs can be renamed. The browse window is unable to be used while this requester is open.
Clicking rename changes the name of the proof to the entered name. Skip discards changes in the string gadget and advances to the next selected proof. Show, shows the proof in a show window. Cancel closes the window; proofs renamed before cancelling remain renamed.
The progress bar beneath the string gadget indicates how many images have been processed out of the total number of selected proofs.
The displayed proof image has a context menu that contains show, to show the proof in a show window.
Deletes all the currently selected proofs.
A progress window opens during the delete process.
Selecting an item from the sub menu exports proofs in the browse window into that format.
Other PhotoFolio modules allow exporting in other formats. See the module´s documentation for further information.
Saves the proof image to disk in jpeg format.
If the export HTML module has been installed correctly, saves the proofs in the browse window as a clickable HTML page.
The browse menu contains items that control how proofs are displayed in the browse window. A tick mark (Ö) against a menu item indicates that the option is enabled.
Enable high quality scaling in this browse window for newly created proofs.
Any currently displayed proof that has the hide questionable attribute set is hidden from view in the browse window.
Hide the attribute selection panel in the browse window allowing more room to display proofs.
Disables further sorting of proofs in the browse window. If proofs have already been sorted, they will remain in their last sorted order.
Sorts all the currently displayed proofs ascending by filename.
Sorts all the currently displayed proofs ascending by file size.
Sorts all the currently displayed proofs ascending by file type. Filename extenders are used to determine the file type.
Sorts all the currently display proofs ascending using a natural sort algorithm. This allows filenames that would normally be separated to appear together. Numbers in filenames are sorted differently than they would be in a regular sort.
Removes all the proofs in the browse window (visible or not) and reloads the currently displayed path.
Set the path being browsed in the current browse window using an ASL requester.
The ARexx menu contains items that allow the execution of ARexx scripts.
Opens an ASL requester and executes the selected ARexx script.
The ARexx scripts selected for browse windows in settings are displayed here. Select the ARexx script from the menu to execute it. Keyboard shortcuts are automatically created for the first 10 scripts (Left Amiga 0-9).
The settings menu items configure the operation and appearance of PhotoFolio. Unless otherwise noted, when the settings window is opened from a browse window, the settings being changed are for this browse window only.
Opens the PhotoFolio program settings window.
Opens the standard MUI preferences window.
Opens an ASL requester allowing selection of a previously saved settings file to load.
Opens an ASL requester allowing selection of a file to save the current program settings as.
Saves the current program settings in the file PROGDIR:PhotoFolio.prefs.
Browse window context menus appear when the right mouse button is pressed while the mouse pointer is over blank space in the browse window (i.e. not over a proof).
The context menu items perform the same functions as items in the browse windows proof menu.