Toolbar Extension:
URL Capture Bar
When active the URL Capture Bar extension will display directly below the standard Image Surfer Pro toolbar. Unlike the Auto Range Override extension the URL Capture Bar does not override any user configurations.
The URL capture bar may be used in the following ways:
- Process the "Embed Code" from most top tier tube sites (such as YouTube)
- Directly add a captured image URL to your fusker collection
- Add any other URL to your fusker collection
Enabling The Bar
You may use the {Show URL Capture Bar at startup up} configuration on the General tab of
the 
User's Preferences to assure this control is visible each time a new Image Surfer Pro window is created.
You may mannually enable and disable this extension through the
Toolbars submenu from the
button.
Processing Tube Site Embed Code
Most top tier tube sites want you to embed copies of the videos they host on other sites in order to drive up the brand recognition of their site and increase traffic to their site. Thus they provide mechanisms for giving you code which can be embedded on a website to directly link to the video content.
As an example, YouTube provides this information on much of their content by right clicking on the video and selecting "Copy Embedded Code" from the popup menu. In this case we were watching the music video of Roundtable Rival by Lindsey Stirling
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The following is what was copied by this selection: <iframe width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jvipPYFebWc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> If you paste this code into the URL Capture Bar text field and click the 
a new Frame object will be added to your collection which when shown in visualization files will hold the music
video of Lindsey Stirling's hit single.
It is worth pointing out that videos displayed through Image Surfer Pro in this way typically do not have advertizement pre-videos. |
While not all tube sites provide this functionality in the same way most provide some way to get the Embed Code for their videos. It should be noted that choosing the "Copy Video URL" and "Copy Video URL at current time" essentially provide a link to the YouTube page and not direclty to the video. Pasting these values into the URL Capture Bar will not produce the results you are looking for.
Frame information added to your fusker collection in this way will not have Auto Ranging applied to the frame URL. In
most cases the URL itself isn't even a file but instead is a database index which will reference a stored video when
accessed within an active frame. However, frames added from the same tube site are likely to be grouped into the same
fusked frame segment if {Auto combine individual frames into fusked frames} is enabled on the Frames tab of the
User Preferences..
Copy Image URL
Installing Image Surfer Pro also installs an IE context menu extension for images. This extension allows you to quickly and easily copy the direct image reference of any image on a webpage by right clicking and choosing "Copy Image URL". This is ideally suited for use with the URL Capture Bar as you can copy the image URL and paste it to the URL Capture Bar to quickly add it to your fusker collection.
Adding an Image URL via the URL Capture Bar in this manner is essentially equivalent to using the
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button on a single image file. All of the auto ranging user configurations and the
Auto Range Override functionality apply to this use
of the URL Capture Bar. After auto ranging is applied, the image file may also be groupped with outher image files
if there are already image files from the same URL path in the fusker collection and the {Auto combine individual images into fusked images}
configuration is enabled on the Images tab of the
User Preferences..
Capturing Your URL
While the Caputre URL Bar is primarily used to add Tube Site video and images to your fusker collection it may be
used to directly add any type of URL easily. To add the desired URL to your fusker collection either paste or type the URL
into the text edit box and either hit the Return/Enter key on your keyboard or click
The large text edit area on the URL Capture Bar is meant for you to enter the text of the URL you wish to capture. It will expand to the full size of the Image Surfer Pro window. If you wish to see more of the text, simply resize the window by draging the edge of the window next to the IE display area. The text edit control accepts any standard key stroke when editing - including using Ctrl-V to paste text, home, end, arrow keys, Ctrl-Z to undo, Delete, Backspace, etc... If you wish the standard Windows text edit menu can be reached by right clicking in the box (useful for pasting with the mouse).
Your Auto Ranging configuration (including the Auto Range Override functionality will be applied to URLs added to your fusker collection in this manner.
If Image Surfer Pro doesn't recognize the file type of the URL you have enetered in the URL Capture Bar you will be presented the choice of how you want the URL added to the fusker collection via this dialog window. The full text of the URL will be shown in the box above the choice buttons. By default the Cancel option will be selected, choosing any other option will uncheck the cancel option and immediately proceed. You should base your decision upon how each of the file types are displayed:
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Image: Only actual image files should be displayed in this manner as Image Surfer Pro will
present them to IE as image files and IE will only display the data as an image if the data from the file
can be read as image data.
Video: Only MP4 video files should be displaed in this manner as Image Surfer Pro will present them to IE as an MP4 video file. If a URL does not resolve to an MP4 video file, the display will show a video box which says "Invalid Source". Page: Most URLs can be shown using this option, including images. Videos referenced this way will prompt you to "open" or "save" the file. However, this mechanism will not work with the YouTub "Copy Video URL" options and is inteneded primarily to directly reference webpages which can be displayed in an active frame. |
When you add a URL in this manner the Auto Ranging configuration (including the use of the Auto Range Override input is applied to the URL. After auto ranging is applied, the URL may also be groupped with outher files of the same type if there are files of the type from the same URL path in the fusker collection and the {Auto combine individual files into fusked images} configuration is enabled for the specific file type chosen.
