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:
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 Icon
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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 text shown next to the icon is the Name of your fusker collection. |
| You may modify the name of your fusker collection via the tree menu Modify option. The collection segment can not be fusked and you can not roll up path segments into the collection segment. The collection name held by the segment is not used in the generation of URL references in any way. | |
Path Branch Icons
| Immediately below the fusker collection, the next layer of tree segments represents the type of access used 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. | |
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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. |
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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. However, you will need to set the security parameters for this Intranet zone to match those you use in the Internet zone. |
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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. |
| When merging fusker collections the path segments never combine information. They will match merging path segments which have both the same access protocol and text. You can not combine references across differing paths into the same tree branch, fusk a path segment, nor roll up a directory structure into the path segment. | |
Directory Branch Icons
| Below the access type segment come the directory segments. Each of these segments can be fusked to create iterated segments. There are two types of directory segments which provide you the flexibility to create virtually any type of fusked path. Fusked segments can be identified by the + in the top right corner of the icon. | ||
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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 with both list and numeric fusks. |
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In some cases you may wish to fusk more than one set of characters in a directory or a file however 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 either a file or directory child segment 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. |
| You may manually split or roll up directory and split directory segments. Merging directory segments is directional and the "level of roll up" in the existing fusker tree will be forced onto merging segments. If a file segment is rolled up into a directory or split directory segment the resulting segment will be a file. | ||
File Leaf Icons
| The final segment in most references is a file segment. File segments represent the end of a fusker tree branch. | ||
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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. |
| File segments never have child segments. Because of this files in the same branch can easily be combined into a single list fusked file segment. "Roll Up" is disabled when a file segment is selected - however they can be split and form a split directory segment with a file segment child to allow you to fusk more than one set of characters within the file name. During mergers file segments will combine based on the setting of the {Auto combine individual files into fusked files} configuration. | ||