The main window's menus

Voodoo-X has three pull down menus that allow you to gain access to many more of Voodoo-X's features. This section describes what each menu item does.

Project menu

The first menu is the Project menu, this is the main menu.

About...

See some general information on Voodoo-X itself.

About MUI...

This gives you some information on the currently installed version of MUI.

About versions...

Use this menu item to gain access to the version information of the currently loaded external systems.

Show Errors

Opens up the error window, allowing you to browse through recent errors.

XAD client information...

XAD is the system used by Voodoo-X to decompress archives. Since XAD is modular you may need to view information on each of the currently installed XAD client modules. Each of these clients handles a particular file format (like LHA, LZX, DMS, ADF, etc.).

This menu item allows you to view information on each client.

To see a picture of the XAD client window, click on the thumbnail image below:

Picture of the XAD Client information window

Hide Using this, you can quickly hide the GUI from view.
Quit Need I state the obvious? :-)

Project menu

The second menu is the Archive menu, this menu allows you to manipulate the currently loaded archive(s).

Open...

Selecting this menu item allows you to open one or more archives for browsing. A multiselect file requester will be opened, after you have selected the archives you want to load, a progress window will be displayed and each archive will be added to the history list.

To browse the archives you've just loaded, press the history list popup button in the main window.

Open multipart...

Selecting this menu item opens up the multipart archive window, which looks like this:

Picture of the Multipart Archive window

The multipart window is used to open archives that comprise of two or more segments. For example, some archiver programs allow archives to be split over many floppy disks. Using this window, you can specify the location of each archive segment. Each of these segments are then merged as a single archive entity and added to the archive history list when you press the View button.

Because of the nature of most archive formats, XAD cannot determine the exact order of each segment, so you must arrange each archive segment to its correct order. You can use the drag and drop lister to do this.

Close

Selecting this will close the currently loaded archive, freeing some memory resources and unlocking it. if you have more than one archive loaded, then the contents of the next archive will be displayed.

Close all

Selecting this will close all opened archives. A requester will first be opened asking you if you'd like to keep the currently displayed archive opened.

Search...

Opens the Search window.

Copy to...

Sometimes it can be handy to make a copy of an archive. When triggered, this menu item will open a destination file requester. From here you can select a desination file, Voodoo-X will then copy the currently selected archive to this new destination.

Move to...

This is similar to the Copy to... menuitem, but the original archive is deleted after copying. Voodoo-X needs to rescan the archive after it has been moved to it's new location.

Delete from disk...

Extracted all of the file you need out of the archive and don't need it anymore? If this is the case, then you can delete the unneeded archive using this menu item.

This feature is especially useful for "download" directories, because you can quickly get rid of an archive after you've obtained it's contents.

Select all

Select all of the entries in the currently loaded archive.

Select none

Clear all of the selected entries in the currently loaded archive.

Select pattern...

This opens up a small window which gives you more control over file selection, using AmigaDOS wildcards. The window looks like this:

Picture of the Pattern window

The Select Pattern button will tell Voodoo-X to select each entry, depending on the contents of the Pattern string gadget.

Clear all is provided for convenience. Pressing it will clear all of the currently selected entries.

Extract selected...

Selecting this will extract all of the selected entries to the destination drawer.

Extract all

This is the same as Extract selected..., but instead allows you to quickly extract all entries to the selected destination drawer.

Clear archive history...

If you're getting a bit low on memory you can call this. It will clear the archive history list. It will also unlock all of the loaded archives, allowing you to delete them with another external tool, like a file manager.

The currently loaded archive will remain loaded.

Check for viruses

When activated, this handy feature will check every file in the archive for viruses. It will throw up a warning requester if it finds any.

For this feature to work, you need xvs.library installed. See the Requirements section for more information.

Click on the thumbnail image below to see an example of the virus checking progress window.

Picture of the progress window

Project menu

The third menu, called the Settings Menu, allows you to configure Voodoo-X.

Settings...

Opens the Settings Window.

Settings MUI...

Opens the MUI settings window. Please refer to the MUI documentation for more information on this window.

View mode

This allows you to change the archive view mode to Linear, Files+Dirs or Tree. Linear mode is where you to see every file with its full path (though viewing large archives with many files many be unpleasant), Files+Dirs mode allows you to view archive contents as if you were using a file manager (where you double click to get inside directories) and Tree mode lets you see archives as a tree.

Note that Tree mode requires Listtree.mcc to be in your MUI:Libs/mui drawer. Multiple select is currently not support in Tree mode.

Load settings...

Load and use a Voodoo-X settings file from an alternative location.

Save settings...

Save the current settings (to PROGDIR:Voodoo-X.settings).

Save settings as...

Save the current settings to an alternative location.