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# Main Window

PCOpus Mainwindow

General Information

- PCOpus has two directory windows and a command bar.
- The command bar can be configured freely.
- The size of the window can be changed in height and width.
- Files in the directory window can be selected by clicking on the entries with the mouse or by moving the cursor and pressing space. Furtheron the command Select can be used to select certain files. Also an option to select files using the Shift-key is available.
- When the desired files are selected a command can be used on them. Only the files in the active window are affected. I may forget to state this later on, since it is completely understandable.
- The active window is the one with the colored pathname. The active windows is also referred to as Source and the inactive window as Destination.
- If an operation has results (copy failed, pattern found) these results can be viewed. If you get no results after copying or moving files you can be sure that everything went fine (or no match was found).

Buttons and gadgets

- The button 'Menu' brings up the menu.
- Below the 'Menu' Button is a little checkbox. This checkbox activates the 'Always on Top' feature. When this box is checked, PCOpus will always stay on top all other windows open on your desktop. It may be freely switched on or off during runtime.
- Below this is the 'Always in Back' checkbutton. This keeps PCOpus always behind all other windows. Apologizes for the short flicker. Since this is a 'dirty hack' (if you can speak of a dirty hack when running windows) this sometimes has some problems, mainly if only one window is open together with PCOpus. Just click on the windows a bit, it will work correctly then. A single right-click on the 'Always in back' gadget puts PCOpus to the back one time.
- Below this on is an 'I' button. Clicking on this with the right button resets the window separator to middle position.
- Below this is a button labeled 'V'. Clicking on this button brings up the last list displayed. Works like the Review Command but is quicker and more convenient to access. If the last list displayed was the bufferlist you are not able to select a directory from this list.
- Unter the 'V'-Button is a checkbox that enables multitsking-copy when activated. You can continue to work when copying files. But you can not start a copy process as long as another is running. You loose some of the benefits, though. Error-files are not marked, for example.
- Below this is another checkbox. When activated, the mouse will be held inside the PCOpus window. This makes fast working easier, since the 'Parent'-function on the left and right are hit quite easily now. Pressing the right mousebutton over the 'Parent'- function on the far left and right will transport the mouse out of the window. Holding is activated again if the inactive side is activated.
- Under and below the 'I' and 'V' button and the checkboxes is the window separator. When the mousepointer is over the separator, the mouseicon changes and you can drag the separator to the position you like.
- At the lower side of the separator is another checkbutton that allows adjusting the handling of files in the Explorerlike Tree. Please see there for details.
- Above this is a checkbutton that activates filtering. Clicking with the right button on this checkbox lets you enter or change the current filter. This filter works for directory reading and for external commands with 'Recursive Dirs' set. This allows, for example, selection of specific files. You can now copy, say, all *.JPG or *.BMP files from all selected dirs and subdirs to the destination directory.
  The filter works this way:
  You can enter any combination of filters (*.JPG, *.BMP, A*.*, C* ...), divided by a space. An asterisk is the only wildcard allowed, no DOS-like ?-Jokers. The filters are OR'ed ! This means: a filter like '*.JPG *.BMP' will filter all files ending in JPG OR BMP ! Please keep this in mind if you think the filtered files are not as you intended. There are some special modes:
  '!Filter' means NOT, '* !*.jpg' will filter for all files except *.jpg.
  '>Number' or '<Number' will filter for all files greater or smaller than the given number. Due to the OR-nature of the filters, something like '>1000 <2000' will NOT filter for all files from 1001 to 1999 bytes, but will filter for ALL FILES, since a file will always be (bigger than 1000 bytes or smaller than 2000 bytes).
  '/Attributes' will filter for Attributes of files. Valid attributes are: RSHAC, rshac. The uppercase letters mean: attribute must be set, lowercase means must NOT be set. Combining in one filter is possible, for example '/RSh' will filter for all files with READ and SYSTEM bit set, but HIDDEN bit clear.
  Any combination of normal or special filters is possible. Using '>', '<' and '/' will slow down the filtering a bit, since more information has to be retrieved from the files themselves. Filter will not affect directories, all directories always fit the filter !
- Left of the left window and right of the right window is a hidden button that changes the mousepointer to an arrow if the pointer is over it. If you click on this button (with the mousepointer being an arrow) the parent of the related window is displayed.
- Just below each Directory window are the path gadgets. In these gadgets you can see the path of the currently displayed directory. You can enter another path here to go directly there. You will have to click on the gadget, though. You may enter the name assigned to a directory in Standard adjustments/Paths or you may use the drivename directly (i.e. your drive d: is named DATA, you can enter data or [data])
- Next to the path gadget is a button labeled ":\". Clicking this brings you directly to the root of the currently displayed drive.
- Next to the Root button are two buttons labeled "<" and ">". These buttons cycle through the directory buffers.
- Just below the vertical sliders are 6 buttons:

      Parent of left directory ->  P > P  <- Parent of right diretory
      Reread left directory    ->  R C R  <- Reread right directory

- 'C' clears all directory buffers not currently displayed
- '<' or '>' (this changes according to the active side) copies the left window to the right window ('>') or vice versa ('<')
- The Menu Line:
  - Menu
    brings up the menu
  - Max
    maximizes PCOpus in heigth
  - Min
    minimizes PCOpus in heigth
  - Redraw
    Redraws the window, should not be needed too often
  - Sort
    brings up a small window to change the sorting of the directory-entries (click on the buttons to change the order):
    - Display Directories first
      In the directory windows the directories are displayed first, then the files
    - Display Files first
      Otherway round
    - Mix Files and Dirs
      Does exactly this: it mixes files and directories
    - Sort by name
      Entries are sorted alphabetically
    - Sort by size
      Entries are sorted from largest to smallest file
    - Sort by date
      Entries are sorted from new to old
    - Sort by extension
      Entries are sorted by extension
    - Do not sort
      Entries are not sorted at all, they appear in exactly the same order as they are appear in the filesystem/DOS. This is considerably faster on larger dirs.
  - Refresh
    refreshes the internal drivelist (useful if drives have changed lately because of a subst for example) and rereads both directories in the directory windows.
  - Reselect
    Reselects all files that were selected before a command was executed. It is also possible for example to copy some files, activate the Destination and reselect all files that were copied TO this directory before.
  - Drives
    brings up the drive and directory list
  - Quit
    This button quits PCOpus
- Left and right of the command buttons are two sliders that scroll through all available commands.

The main part of the lower part of the PCOpus window is the button-bank. This button bank consists of 6x5 commandbuttons (at least if you did not change this to another value). Clicking on a button with the left mousebutton will activate the command. If it is possible to click on the commandbutton with the right mousebutton, you can see a little black line in the upper right corner of this commandbutton. If 'Shift' is held down when a button is clicked, some information about this button is displayed and the command is not executed.

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