The menus
Project
Control
Cache
Navigate
Hotlist
Settings
Help
ARexx
Project menu
The Project menu offers functions to open or close windows, fetch
or save documents, or quit AWeb.
- New window
- Open a new window.
Only available in the registered version.
- Close window
- Close the current window.
Only available in the registered version.
- Open URL
- Clear the URL field () and activate it
so you can type a new URL.
- Open WWW
- Preset the URL field () with
"
http://www.
" and activate it for maximum convenience
if you want to load a WWW page.
- Open local...
- Opens a standard file requester. After you select a HTML file, the
file will be loaded in the current window.
- Search engines
- Opens the local page
extras/search.html
which
contains a quick interface to several search engines on the Internet.
- View source...
- Show the HTML source of the current page, using the viewer program
that was installed as HTML source
viewer.
- Save source...
- Opens a standard file requester. After you type a file name or select
a file, the HTML source of the current page is saved. If the selected
file already exists, you have the choice to:
- overwrite the old file,
- append the source to the old file,
- select another name, or
- cancel the save alltogether.
- About...
- Opens a window with version information. If the current window has an
ARexx port, the name is shown here.
- Quit
- Quit AWeb after confirmation. If you confirm, all pending network
operations are cancelled.
Control menu
The Control menu offers functions to control the operation of
AWeb, other than cache functions.
- Load images now
- Initiates the load of images in the current document.
This menu item has 2 sub-items:
- All images
- Initiates the load of all images in the current document that
aren't loaded yet.
Pressing the button will do the same.
- Maps only
- Initiates the load of all clickable maps in the current document
that aren't loaded already.
- Network status...
- Open the network status window, or bring it up
to front if it is already open.
Pressing the button will do the same.
- Reload current
- Reload the current document. The page is deleted from the cache, and
retrieved again.
Pressing the button will do the same.
- Cancel load
- Interrupt (cancel) the load of a page in this window. Background loads
cannot be cancelled by this menu function, use the cancel button in the
network status window instead.
Pressing the button, or pressing the
Esc key will do the same.
- Next window
- Activates and brings up to front the next window. Only available in
the registered version.
- Previous window
- Activates and brings up to front the previous window. Only available in
the registered version.
- HTML mode
- Select the way HTML should be interpreted in this window.
This menu item has 2 sub-items:
- Strict
- Let AWeb follow the HTML standard.
- Compatible
- Let AWeb be compatible with other
browsers that are buggy. Useful for viewing a page that was composed
with such a buggy browser.
- Disable proxy?
- If you have proxies configured, you can
select this menu item to toggle the use of proxies on and off. This
feature is included because some proxies tend to handle forms and
authorized requests incorrectly.
Cache menu
The Cache menu offers functions to flush the
cache, and to save or fluch the cached
authorizations.
- Flush images in current
- Inlined images that appear in the current document are deleted from
both the memory and disk caches. Note that if the image also appears in
another document, it is undisplayed in that document, too.
- Flush old images
- Inlined images that do not appear in any currently displayed
document are deleted from both the memory and disk caches.
- Flush all images
- The image cache is cleared completely. After this function, no
images are left in the cache.
- Flush documents
- All documents that are not currently displayed are deleted from the
cache.
- Save authorizations
- Save the current authorization details.
- Flush authorizations
- Forget all the current authorization details.
Note that this flushes the internal authorizations cache only. To flush
the disk cache too, you have to select
Cache /
Save authorizations
afterwards.
Navigate menu
The Navigate menu offers functions to navigate in the document
history.
- Back
- Walk back one document through the window history. The window history
contains all pages viewed before in this window.
Pressing the button, or using the
Alt + cursor left key combination, will do the same.
- Forward
- Walk forward one document through the window history. The window history
contains all pages viewed before in this window. Note
that the window history is currently linear, without branches. That means
that if you walk back a few steps, then retrieve another page, the window
history "after" that page will be forgotten.
Pressing the button, or using the
Alt + cursor right key combination, will do the same.
- Home document
- Retrieve the URL that is configured as your
home page.
Pressing the button will do the same.
- Window history
- Show the window history. The current document is marked.
Hotlist menu
The Hotlist menu offers functions to use the hotlist, or to
read foreign hotlists.
- Add to hotlist
- Add the current document to your hotlist. Currently, the hotlist is
linear, not hierarchical.
Pressing the button will do the same.
- Show hotlist
- Show the hotlist in the browser window.
Pressing the button will do the same.
- AMosaic (ARexx)
- Show the ARexx-based hotlist of AMosaic 1.2. AWeb expects it to
reside under the name
ENV:mosaic/hotlist.html
.
- AMosaic (2.0)
- Show the hierarchical hotlist of AMosaic 2.0 (pre-release). AWeb
expects it to reside under the name
ENV:mosaic/.mosaic-hotlist-default
.
- Other...
- Opens a standard file requester, from which you can select other
hierarchical hotlists. These include hotlists saved by older versions
of IBrowse, and other hotlists created by AWeb.
Settings menu
The Settings menu offers functions to configure AWeb.
- Image loading
- This menu item provides a quick way to set the
image loading. It has 3
sub-items:
with the same meaning as the choices in the
image loading chooser.
- Change settings...
- Brings up the settings requester.
- Save settings
- Save the current settings.
This function will take a snapshot of your window positions first.
Help menu
The Help menu offers you more information.
- Documentation
- Shows the AWeb manual in this window.
- AWeb home page
- Retrieves the AWeb Home page.
A TCP stack must be running, and you must be connected to the Internet
for this function to work.
- AWeb FAQ
- Retrieves the AWeb FAQ.
A TCP stack must be running, and you must be connected to the Internet
for this function to work.
ARexx menu
The ARexx menu offers functions to start ARexx macros. Currently
you can only start a macro from a file selector, but in the future you
can configure your own ARexx macro menu.
- Start ARexx macro...
- Opens a standard file requester. After you select an ARexx macro, that
macro will be executed with the original window as default port.