An Overview Of The Comprehensive Menu System

Last Updated: 29th June 2003


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Menu GraphicLike almost every Amiga compatible application, IBrowse² sports a wealth of menus providing you with quick access to certain preference options, easy access to the different IBrowse² windows, and the usual file I/O options. This chapter documents each entry of the main menus (the FAB Menus are covered separately in the FAB Menu chapter) providing you a detailed description of all the options, even those not so immediately obvious ones.

Project
The Project menu contains all the options associated with the IBrowse² program operation.
New...  (RAmiga+N)
This menu entry will open a new window or a new browser, based on your Preferences » General » Default New method setting.
New window
This menu entry will open a new window explicitly, overriding your Preferences » General » Default New method.
New browser
This menu entry will open a new browser explicitly, overriding your Preferences » General » Default New method.
Open local file...  (RAmiga+O)
This menu entry will open a file requester where you can select a file to open in IBrowse². The file pattern will match that set in the Preferences » General » Directories » Def. file pattern setting.
About IBrowse  (RAmiga+?)
This menu entry will open the about: page in IBrowse².
About MUI...
This menu entry will open the MUI About requester on the public screen that IBrowse² is running on.
Iconify  (RAmiga+Y)
This menu entry will minimise IBrowse² to an icon on the Workbench. All IBrowse² windows will be minimised, and the screen closed if IBrowse² is running on its own public screen. Double clicking on the icon will re-open IBrowse², returning it to its previous state.
Close window
This menu entry will close the currently active IBrowse² window, including any open browsers within it. If this is the last IBrowse² window, then IBrowse² will also quit after closing the window.
Close browser
This menu entry will close the currently active browser tab within an IBrowse² window. If this is the last browser in the current window, then it will also close the window, and if that is the last IBrowse² window, it will also quit IBrowse².
Quit  (RAmiga+Q)
This menu entry will quit IBrowse², causing it to cancel any open connections, close any open windows, and perform its cache cleanup.

Edit
The Edit menu contains all the options associated with the system clipboard operations.
Copy URL to clipboard
This menu entry will copy the current URL shown in the Location gadget into the system clipboard. It can then be pasted into any clipboard aware application using the standard AmigaOS® RAmiga+V shortcut, or areas within IBrowse².
Paste clipboard to URL
This menu entry will paste the contents of the system clipboard into the Location gadget, and automatically try to load it.
! If the content of the clipboard is not a valid URL, you will get an error when attempting to load it.
Copy  (RAmiga+C)
This menu entry will perform a standard AmigaOS® copy function. This is required to copy text from web pages if Preferences » General » Auto copy on select is disabled.

Navigation
The Navigation menu contains all the options allowing you to navigate around the current web page, and the IBrowse² environment itself. The options only affect the current browser, so selecting Stop will not halt the transfers in all of the available browsers.
Back  (RAmiga+B)
This menu entry will return you to the previously displayed web page for the current browser, for the current session. By repeatedly selecting this option, you can keep stepping back through your history to the very first page for the current browser, unless the history has been cleared using the Flush browser history menu entry, at which point the option will be disabled.
Forward  (RAmiga+F)
This menu entry will return you to the last web page that was visited after the current web page (thus moving you forward through your history) for the current browser, for the current session. By repeatedly selecting this option, you can keep stepping forward through your history to the last page you visited for the current browser, unless the history has been cleared using the Flush browser history menu entry, at which point the option will be disabled.
Home  (RAmiga+H)
This menu entry will instruct IBrowse² to load the web page you have configured under Preferences » Network » Location.
Stop loading  (RAmiga+S)
This menu entry will instruct IBrowse² to stop the current transfers the current browser is performing, except for those being performed by the Download Manager.
View browser history...
This menu entry will open the Browser History window. The content of this window is the navigation history for the current browser, for the current session.
Flush browser history
This menu entry will flush the current browser history, clearing the list of previously visited web pages from memory. Doing so will mean you are unable to use the Back or Forward buttons, Back or Forward menus, or return to a web page you visited earlier in the session, via any of the history navigation options.
! This will not flush the history for any other browsers you have open, only the current active one.
Below the Flush browser history menu entry will appear the titles of the web pages you have previously visited in the current browser, during the session. Selecting an entry from this list will load the web page into the current browser.
! AmigaOS® has a number of limitations regarding menus, and IBrowse² obviously suffers from those. Only 55 entries can be shown in the Navigation menu, as IBrowse² itself uses the remaining 8.

Webpage
The Webpage menu contains all the options relating to the web page you are currently viewing.
Reload  (RAmiga+R)
This menu entry will instruct IBrowse² to reload the web page displayed in the current browser, from the originating location (web server, CDROM, hard disk etc), therefore avoiding the version in your local cache.
Stop GIF animations
This menu entry will instruct IBrowse² to stop any GIF animations on the web page displayed in the current browser, resulting in a single static image taken from the frame that was being displayed at the time this menu entry was chosen.
Load images  (RAmiga+I)
This menu entry will instruct IBrowse² to load any images on the web page being displayed in the current browser, that have not been loaded, or that have been flushed from display using one of the image flushing options found under Cache » Memory cache.
! This will not magically load any images that have errors. It is used to load images after browsing with Preferences » HTML » Images » Load images set to None or Imagemaps, as well as those that have been interrupted by using Stop, due to a network error or flushed from display using one of the image flushing options found under Cache » Memory cache.
Search...  (RAmiga+E)
This menu entry will open the Search Current Webpage window, allowing you to perform a word search on the web page displayed in the current browser. If the web page is frames based, the search will be performed on the current frame.
Print...  (RAmiga+P)
This menu entry will open the Print Manager window, which can be used to configure the settings and print the web page displayed in the current browser.
! Currently Graphical printing is not supported; only Text printing or PostScript printing is available. In order to print images displayed on web pages, you must print via the PostScript option direct to a PostScript printer, or via Ghostscript to a non-PostScript printer.
Save source as
This menu entry will allow you to save the source of the web page displayed in the current browser, or if the web page you are viewing consists of frames, then the currently active frame. You can save the source in one of the following formats:
HTML...
This menu entry will open a file requester allowing you to save the source of the web page as is, preserving the HTML.
Plain text...
This menu entry will open a file requester allowing you to save the source of the web page as plain text, stripping the HTML code from the file.
Save frame source
This menu entry will list the available parent framesets on the current web page displayed in the current browser. When you select the frameset you would like to save, a file requester will open allowing you to save the source of the frameset. Using the Save source as menu entry, you are only able to save the contents of the frame itself, so if you'd like to save the actual frame HTML, then use this option.
! As frame source is usually only made up of HTML, there is no option to save this as plain text, as it would not make much sense.
Display source...
This menu entry will open the Source window, with the source of the web page displayed in the current browser, or if the web page you are viewing consists of frames, then the currently active frame.
Display frame source
This menu entry will list the available parent framesets on the web page displayed in the current browser. When you select the frameset you would like to view the source for, the Source window will open with the frameset source with in it.

Bookmarks
"Bookmark" is the standard term for marking the URL of a given web page in a list for later access. IBrowse² itself supports two bookmarking systems, the built-in Hotlist Manager, and the third party application Contact Manager. Due to this, the previously named Hotlist menu and associated items have been renamed to Bookmarks to indicate that it affects both methods of bookmark management.
Add bookmark  (RAmiga+A)
This menu entry will add the current URL to the Hotlist Manager or Contact Manager, depending on your preferences for Preferences » General » Use Contact Manager for bookmarks.
View bookmarks...  (RAmiga+M)
This menu entry will open either the Hotlist Manager or Contact Manager window, depending on your preferences for Preferences » General » Use Contact Manager for bookmarks.
Below the View bookmarks... menu entry will appear the titles of the web pages you have bookmarked previously. Only entries with Windows » Hotlist Manager » Show in Bookmarks menu enabled will appear, or if you have enabled Preferences » General » Show new Hotlist Manager entries in menu, those that you have added.
! AmigaOS® has a number of limitations regarding menus, and IBrowse² obviously suffers from those. Only 60 entries can be shown in the Bookmarks menu, as IBrowse² itself uses the remaining 3. Of those 60, any number can be a sub-menu, but each sub-menu is limited to a single level. Additionally, only 31 items are allowed in each sub-menu, so the first 31 entries with this option enabled will be shown, with the remaining entities truncated from the list.
! If you have exclusively used Contact Manager with IBrowse² for your bookmarks, then you will not have anything listed in this area of the menu. However, if you have mixed your bookmarks with Hotlist Manager and Contact Manager, you may find some entries are listed in this menu, from the time you used the Hotlist Manager. Selecting an entry from this list will load the web page into the browser.

Windows
The Windows menu gives you quick access to the majority of the sub-windows used in IBrowse², as well as the available browser windows opened during your browsing session.
Info Window  (RAmiga+W)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Info Window, which is used to display information about links and images.
Netstat Manager  (RAmiga+T)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Netstat Manager, which is used to monitor the connections IBrowse² currently has to the Internet.
URL Clipboard Manager  (RAmiga+U)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² URL Clipboard Manager, which is used as a quick "scratchpad" for temporarily storing URLs that you would like to check later.
Global History Window  (RAmiga+G)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Global History Window. The content of this window is the history for all of the browsers preserved between sessions. Links will be automatically purged from the Global History Window after the number of days specified in Preferences » HTML » Links expire after has passed, or immediately when Preferences » HTML » Expire now is used.
Cookie Manager  (RAmiga+K)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Cookie Manager, which is used to view and remove cookies from IBrowse².
Download Manager  (RAmiga+D)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Download Manager, which is used to control current, queued, complete and failed file downloads.
Below the Download Manager menu entry will appear the titles of the main browser windows you currently have open. Only the open windows are listed, not the actual browser tabs. The title of the entry will change depending on which browser tab is active at the time, and also based on the title of the web page you are viewing. Selecting the entry from menu will bring that window to front.

Cache
The Cache menu contains all your cache controls, for both the hard disk cache, and the memory cache used by IBrowse².
Cache Explorer  (RAmiga+L)
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Cache Explorer, which is used to manage your hard disk based cache.
Memory cache
This menu entry will allow you to flush the various data from the memory cache in use by IBrowse², therefore freeing the memory for use by the system. The options available to you are:
Flush cached pages
This menu entry will flush all the HTML data from the memory cache, which is not currently in use by IBrowse². This will not affect the Browser History, but revisiting one of the sites from the history list will mean the data has to be reloaded from the web server, rather than loaded from memory.
Flush all images
This menu entry will flush all image data from the memory cache, including those images in use by the web page displayed in the current browser.
Flush cached images
This menu entry will flush all image data from the memory cache, which is not currently in use by IBrowse².
Flush images in current window
This menu entry will flush all image data from the memory cache, which is used by the web pages displayed in all browsers in the current window.
Flush images in current browser
This menu entry will flush all image data from the memory cache, which is used by the web page displayed in the current browser.
Disk Cache
This menu entry will allow you to flush the data from the hard disk based cache in use by IBrowse². The options available to you are:
Flush
This menu entry will flush all data from the hard disk based cache. Doing so means that when you revisit web pages you have recently viewed, the data will have to be reloaded and re-cached.
Clean up
This menu entry will perform a cleanup operation on the hard disk cache, removing any temporary files IBrowse² has created during its cache operations. This operation is always performed automatically when exiting IBrowse², but using this menu entry will cause IBrowse² to cleanup without you having to actually exit IBrowse².

Macros
This menu will only appear when you have some macros set up in IBrowse², under Preferences » GUI » Macros. The entries shown here will be solely based on the names you provide in that section of the Preferences. Selecting an entry will perform that macro action.

Passwords
IBrowse² can optionally store passwords for sites requiring authentication, and this menu gives you access to options to manage this feature.
Password Manager
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² Password Manager, which is used to view and remove stored passwords from IBrowse².
Reset Authorisations
This menu entry will automatically flush all passwords saved by IBrowse², meaning you will have to re-enter the username and password for password protected websites.

Preferences
The entries in the first section of this menu, allow you to override the default settings for the current browser. Any browsers that you open after these changes have been made will also inherit the changes until changed back to defaults.
Image loading
This menu entry is used to override the main Preferences » HTML » Images » Load Images section. The options available are:
Load all
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Images » Load images setting to All. This will cause IBrowse² to load and display all images on the web page displayed in the current browser.
Load imagemaps
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Load images setting to Imagemaps. This will cause IBrowse² to only load and display any imagemaps on the web page displayed in the current browser. Image maps are often required for navigation around a website.
None
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Images » Load images setting to None. This will cause IBrowse² to load the web page in the current browser, without any images. The images can then be manually loaded one at a time via the Image FAB Menu, or they can all be loaded via the Load images button, or Webpage » Load images menu entry.
Default setting
This menu entry will tell IBrowse² to use the default setting that you have defined in the main Preferences » HTML » Images » Load images section.
Custom colors
This menu entry is used to override the main Preferences » HTML » Ignore custom colors section. The options available are:
Enable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Ignore custom colors setting, to instruct IBrowse² to display the web page using the colors defined in the HTML by the web page author (where applicable).
Disable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Ignore custom colors setting, to instruct IBrowse² to display the web page using the colors defined by you in the Preferences » HTML » Colors section.
Default setting
This menu entry will tell IBrowse² to use the default setting that you have defined in the main Preferences » HTML » Ignore custom colors section.
Frames support
This menu entry is used to override the main Preferences » HTML » Frames support section. The options available are:
Enable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Frames support setting, to instruct IBrowse² to use frames where applicable.
Disable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » Frames support setting, to instruct IBrowse² to not use frames when displaying web pages.
Default setting
This menu entry will tell IBrowse² to use the default setting that you have defined in the main Preferences » HTML » Frame support section.
JavaScript support
This menu entry is used to override the main Preferences » HTML » JavaScript support section. The options available are:
Enable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » JavaScript support setting, to instruct IBrowse² to use JavaScript where applicable.
Disable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » HTML » JavaScript support setting, to instruct IBrowse² to not execute JavaScript when displaying web pages.
Default setting
This menu entry will tell IBrowse² to use the default setting that you have defined in the main Preferences » HTML » JavaScript support section.
Proxy
This menu entry is used to override the main Preferences » Network » Proxy » Use section(s). The options available are:
Enable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » Network » Proxy » Use setting, to instruct IBrowse² to use the configured proxies when transferring data from the Internet.
Disable
This menu entry is used to override the Preferences » Network » Proxy » Use setting, to instruct IBrowse² to not to use any configured proxies when transferring data from the Internet.
Default setting
This menu entry will tell IBrowse² to use the default setting that you have defined in the main Preferences » Network » Proxy » Use section.
Settings...
This menu entry will open the main IBrowse² Preferences, which you can use to adjust the settings of IBrowse² to suit your own personal requirements.
MUI...
This menu entry will open the IBrowse² MUI preferences, which you can use to adjust the MUI settings of IBrowse² to suit your own personal requirements.
! The changes you make to MUI when launching them via this option will only affect IBrowse² and not your global MUI settings.
Load settings...
This menu entry will open a file requester allowing you to select the IBrowse² preference settings file you wish to load, therefore overwriting the current settings.
Save settings
This menu entry will save your current IBrowse² preference settings to the same name of the last preference settings file that was opened. By default, this will be PROGDIR:ibrowse.prefs, unless you have loaded some alternative preferences, in which case it will automatically overwrite that file, preserving the filename.
Save settings as...
This menu entry will open a file requester allowing you to enter a filename to save your current IBrowse² preference settings as a different name to the default.
Save settings as default
This menu entry will save your current preference settings to PROGDIR:ibrowse.prefs, which is the default IBrowse² preferences filename.

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