What is a Segment?
Each Icon in the Image Surfer Pro Tree represents a segment of an Image Reference. See Image Surfer Pro Tree Overview for details on each possible segment icon. For example the following tree represents a reference to the image:
http://img0.gmodules.come/ig/images/weather_welcome_image.jpg
This image reference is stored in a Fusker Collection Tree as 5 segments.
The Top Segment: “http:” represents the type of URL Type of connection to a web server. In this case using the http protocol.'
The next three segments represent directories on the hosting server.
And the final segment is the image file itself.
The URL Type will be determined when you add an image reference to the fusker collection using
, and cannot be modified.
The directory and file segments are made from three individual parts:
- Pre Text:
This portion of the segment is a set of characters which represent the first characters in the segment’s text. - Fusk:
This is the portion of the segment which can be represented by a series of numbers or a list of strings. It is the portion of the segment which can reference multiple files with similar names. - Post Text:
This part of the segment is the character string which follows the fusk in making the full text of the segment.
In our example, the Directory Segment: img<0 – 24>.gmodules.com is made from the following data:
- Pre Text: img
- Fusk: number sequence from 0 to 24 with size one digit
- Post Text: .jpg
This effectively represents 24 related directories on the server: img0.gmodules.com, img1.gmodules.com, … img24.gmoudles.com
This segment has been Auto Ranged.