Overview
Image Surfer Pro allows you to save a reference to image files you find on the web or networked file system. References are shown in the form of a Fusker Collection in the Image Surfer Pro application window to the left of the Internet Explorer webpage view. The Image Surfer Pro Application provides two primary user interfaces:
The Image Surfer Pro application is an Internet Explorer extension which interacts with Internet Explorer as a toolbar. It extends the capability of Internet Explorer and is a managed Addon. The Image Surfer Pro window consists of the Title Bar, Image Surfer Pro Toolbar, Image Surfer Pro Fusker Collection View, and Status Bar.
The use of the Image Surfer Pro interface is intended to feel familiar – much like the standard Internet Explorer Favorites Toolbar. However there are several significant differences in the web references stored in the Favorites toolbar and those stored in Image Surfer Pro. While either interface can be used to store a reference to any type of file, Image Surfer Pro assumes the reference is to an image and that similar references are also valid. Through the Favorites interface you can access a single reference – a single image at a time. Through the Image Surfer Pro interface you can latterly access thousands of images at a time from different servers all across the World Wide Web.
Another significant difference between the fusker collection and the references in the favorites toolbar is the ability to save a group of common references in a fusker collection file and then switch between these fusker collections, share these fusker collections with other Image Surfer Pro users, and merge or append fusker collections of your friends.
Image Surfer Pro Title Bar
The Title Bar at the top of the Image Surfer Pro window identifies the Internet Explorer Add-on and provides a means of closing the Image Surfer Pro window. Right clicking on the Image Surfer Pro Title Bar will open a menu selection which provides much of the same functionality as the File Button.
Save Fusker Collection on this menu will perform the Save As function if your fusker collection has never been saved or read form a file or you have merged fusker collection files.
Image Surfer Pro Toolbar
Image Surfer Pro also has a tool bar which allows you to manipulate the web pages displayed by Internet Explorer and the image fusker collection.
The tool bar is divided into three sections. The first section provides an interface to create, save, and open Fusker Collection files. The second group of buttons allows you to directly reference images on the web, add an image reference to the fusker collection, and display web pages from your fusker collection. The final grouping of buttons provide a means of configuring your Image Surfer Pro preferences and accessing information about Image Surfer Pro on the web.
Image Surfer Pro Fusker Collection View
The Fusker Collection View displays the image references of your fusker collection in the form of a familiar directory tree. The directories represent the directories on the web server where the image was stored. A popup window appears when you right-click in the fusker collection view which provides an interface to modify the image fusker collection or view the images referenced by the fusker collection.
Image Surfer Pro Status Bar
The Status Bar at the bottom of the Image Surfer Pro window provides useful information about the fusker fusker collection based on the node of the tree you have selected. It reports the number of Pictorials and the number of Images contained in the fusker collection below the selected node. A pictorial is defined as group of images and is essentially the number of paths avaialbe in the fusker collection tree from the current selection.