The menus

New window

Open a new window.

Close window

Close the current window.

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.

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.

Previous window

Activates and brings up to front the previous window.

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.

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.

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 requester.

Add to hotlist

Add the current document to the end of your hotlist.
Pressing the button will do the same.

Show hotlist

Show the hotlist in the browser window.
Pressing the button will do the same.

Maintenance...

Opens the hotlist maintenance window.
You can configure AWeb so that the button will do the same.

Save hotlist

Save any changes made to the hotlist now. Changes will be saved when you quit AWeb automatically, but sometimes you might want to save changes earlier.

Restore last saved

Reverts the hotlist to the last saved version.

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.

Image loading

This menu item provides a quick way to set the image loading. It has 3 sub-items:

• All images
• Maps only
• Off

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.

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.

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.

User-configurable items

The remainder of this menu contains a list of ARexx macros you can configure yourself. Use the ARexx macro menu settings page for this.