Image Surfer Pro Fusker Collection View

Overview

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The Fusker Collection View is the largest portion of the Image Surfer Pro application window, the portion between the Image Surfer Pro Toolbar and the Image Surfer Pro Statusbar. It is a graphical tree representation of your fusker collection. It should feel similar to a directory tree structure from Windows File Explorer. With some minor differences:

  • Files are shown within the tree not just directories
  • Connection type are shown above root directories and domains
  • The top level node is always the fusker collection

The scrollbars shown here will only be present if needed to see the entire fusker collection.

The icons shown in the fusker collection view tree represent the various portions of the image references stored in the fusker collection. You interact with your fusker collection by selecting a segment of the fusker collection tree and using the tree menu or toolbar buttons to perform actions on that segment.

Fusker Collection View Icons

Blow up of top level fusker collection segment The top level icon on the tree represents your fusker collection. The fusker collection holds a set of file references. The path to each file can be seen in the structure of the remaining segments. The fusker collection segment can be named but holds no other information.

Immediately below the fusker collection, the next layer of the tree segments represent the type of access needed to reference the files of the fusker collection. There are three different icons used to represent the relative access zones. It is possible to have a fusker collection which contains all three types of files. Because the fusker collection stores a reference to the file and not the actual image itself, it is important to understand that you may not be able to view the images in a fusker collection unless you have an internet connection or a connection to the local area network where the actual image data is stored.
Blow up of the Local Access segment The hard drive icon represents files which are located on the local computer. If you have mapped network hard drives, files on these drives will also be represented by this icon. Starting with Windows Vista and Windows7 you may need to turn off User Access Control and Protected Mode to access local files through generated webpages.

Blow up of the Network Access segment The network drive icon represents files which are stored on the local network but not the local computer. Files can be referenced on a trusted network through generated webpages with both User Access Control and Protected Mode turned on.

Blow up of the Internet Access segment The globe icon represents the various protocols used to access files on the world wide web. For most users this will be the most common and possibly the only Access icon they ever have in their fusker collections. The most common protocol represented by the icon is http though any protocol through which IE can connect to Internet content can be used.

Below the access type segment come the directory and file segments. Each of these segments can be fusked to create iterated segments. There are three different icons used to represent the different types of directories and files which may be referenced and each segment type may also be fusked. Fusked segments can be identified by the + in the top right corner of the icon.
Blow up of standard directory segment icon Blow up of fusked standard directory segment icon
The standard directory segment represents the familiar directory object in most file systems. These segments are terminated by '/'. Directories are used to organize the storage of files on servers and as such are often "logically" named based on the image files they contain.

Directories may be fusked in the same way image file names may be fusked. Both list and numeric fusks may be used when fusking a directory and often are.

Blow up of split directory segment icon Blow up of fusked spit directory segement icon In some cases you may wish to fusk more than one set of characters in a directory or a file howerver each fusker collection segment can have only one fusk - the solution is to split the directory or file into two segments. The top segment of the split will always appear as a split directory with a single child segment, either a file or directory depending upon which type of segment was split.

Split directory segments may be split multiple times and may also be fusked with either list or numeric fusker data.

Blow up of file segment icon Blow up of fusked file segment icon The final segment in most references is a file segment. The file represents the name of the actual file being referenced by the fusker collection entry. File segments are often fusked with either a list or numeric fusks.

Related User Preferences:

There are no user preferences which affect the way file references are represented in the fusker collection tree view.

Differences in Free and Full Versions

There are no differences in the way the free and full versions represent a fusker collection in the fusker collection tree view.