The menus

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Project menu

The Project menu offers functions to open or close windows, fetch or save documents, or quit AWeb.

New window

Open a new window.
Not available in the demo version

Close window

Close the current window.
Not available in the demo version

Open URL

Clear the URL field and activate it so you can type a new URL.

Open WWW

Preset the URL field with "http://www." and activate it for maximum convenience if you want to load a WWW page.

Open local...

Opens a standard file requester. After you select a HTML file, the file will be loaded in the current window.

Search engines

Opens the local page extras/search.html which contains a quick interface to several search engines on the Internet.
Not available in the demo version

Search...

Opens the search requester.
Pressing the search button will do the same.

View source...

Show the HTML source of the current page, using the viewer program that was installed as HTML source viewer.

Edit source...

Edit the HTML source of the current page, using the editor that you configured.
Not available in the demo version

Save source...

Opens a standard file requester. After you type a file name or select a file, the HTML source of the current page is saved. If the selected file already exists, you have the choice to:

overwrite the old file,
append the source to the old file,
select another name, or
cancel the save alltogether.

Print...

Opens a print parameters requester to allow a graphical print of the current document.
Not available in the demo version

Info...

Opens the Information window for the current document.
Not available in the demo version

About...

Opens a window with version information. If the current window has an ARexx port, the name is shown here.

Quit

Quit AWeb. All pending network operations are cancelled.

Control menu

The Control menu offers functions to control the operation of AWeb, other than cache functions.

Load images now

Initiates the load of images in the current document. This menu item has 2 sub-items:

All images: Initiates the load of all images in the current document that aren't loaded yet.
Pressing the load images button will do the same.
Maps only: Initiates the load of all clickable maps in the current document that aren't loaded already.

Play background sound

Plays the background sound attached to this page.
Not available in the demo version

Copy URL

Copies the current URL to the clipboard.
Not available in the demo version

Paste URL

Copies the current contents of the clipboard to the URL field.
Not available in the demo version

Copy block

Copies the currently selected text to the clipboard.
Not available in the demo version

Dragging

Toggles the ability to drag-select text for the clipboard on or off.
Not available in the demo version

Network status...

Open the network status window, or bring it up to front if it is already open.
Pressing the network status button will do the same.

Reload

Current document: Reload the current document. The page is deleted from the cache, and retrieved again.
Pressing the reload button will do the same.
Images in current: Reloads the images in the current document. The images are retrieved again from their original source.

Cancel load

Interrupt (cancel) the load of a page in this window. Background loads cannot be cancelled by this menu function, use the cancel button in the network status window instead.
Pressing the cancel button, or pressing the Esc key will do the same.

Next window

Activates and brings up to front the next window.
Not available in the demo version

Previous window

Activates and brings up to front the previous window.
Not available in the demo version

Disable proxy

If you have proxies configured, you can select this menu item to toggle the use of proxies on and off. This feature is included because some proxies tend to handle forms and authorized requests incorrectly.

Cache menu

The Cache menu offers functions to control the cache, and to save or flush the cached authorizations.

Cache browser...

Opens the cache browser.

Flush from memory

Flush one of the following from the memory cache. If the objects were also on disk, they will remain there.

Nondisplayed images: All images that are not used in the currently visible page(s) are flushed from memory.
All images: All images, including those on the current page, are flushed from memory.
Nondisplayed documents: All documents that are not currently visible are flushed from memory.

Delete from disk

Delete one of the following from the disk cache and also from memory if the objects are not in use. You will be asked for confirmation first.

All images: Delete all images from the disk cache.
All documents: Delete all documents from the disk cache.
Erase cache: Delete all images and documents from the disk cache.

Fix cache...

Synchronizes the cache registration with the files actually found on disk. Also, any files in the cache directory that don't belong to AWebs cache are deleted.

Save authorizations

Save the current authorization details.

Edit authorizations

Opens the authorization edit window.

Navigate menu

The Navigate menu offers functions to navigate in the document history.

Back: Walk back one document through the window history. The window history contains all pages viewed before in this window.
Pressing the back button, or using the Alt + cursor left key combination, will do the same.
Forward: Walk forward one document through the window history. The window history contains all pages viewed before in this window.
Pressing the forward button, or using the Alt + cursor right key combination, will do the same.
Home document: Retrieve the URL that is configured as your home page.
Pressing the home button will do the same.
Window history: Show the window history requester.

Hotlist menu

The Hotlist menu offers functions to use the hotlist, or to read foreign hotlists.

Add to hotlist: Add the current document to the end of your hotlist.
Pressing the add to hotlist button will do the same.
Show hotlist: Show the hotlist in the browser window.
Pressing the hotlist button will do the same.
View hotlist...: Opens the hotlist viewer window.
You can configure AWeb so that the hotlist button will do the same.
Hotlist manager...: Opens the hotlist manager window.
Save hotlist: Save any changes made to the hotlist now. Changes will be saved when you quit AWeb automatically, but sometimes you might want to save changes earlier.
Not available in the demo version
Restore last saved: Reverts the hotlist to the last saved version.
Not available in the demo version
AMosaic (ARexx): Show the ARexx-based hotlist of AMosaic 1.2. AWeb expects it to reside under the name ENV:mosaic/hotlist.html.
Not available in the demo version
AMosaic (2.0): Show the hierarchical hotlist of AMosaic 2.0 (pre-release). AWeb expects it to reside under the name ENV:mosaic/.mosaic-hotlist-default.
Not available in the demo version
Other...: Opens a standard file requester, from which you can select other hierarchical hotlists. These include hotlists saved by older versions of IBrowse, and other hotlists created by AWeb.
Not available in the demo version

Settings menu

The Settings menu offers functions to configure AWeb.

Image loading

This menu item provides a quick way to set the image loading. It has 3 sub-items:

All images
Maps only
Off

with the same meaning as the choices in the image loading chooser.

Backgrounds

This menu item provides a quick way to set the background colors and images setting.

Background sounds

This menu item provides a quick way to set the background sounds setting.

Browser settings...

Brings up the browser settings requester.

Program settings...

Brings up the program settings requester.

GUI settings...

Brings up the GUI settings requester.

Network settings...

Brings up the network settings requester.

ClassAct settings...

Brings up the ClassAct preferences requester.

Save current settings

Saves all current settings.

Save settings as...

Saves all current settings as another configuration. A file requester will pop up from which you can select the drawer where to save the settings. Usually you will save the settings in a drawer in ENVARC:AWeb3 so you can use the drawer name as CONFIG tooltype or argument when you start AWeb.

Load settings...

Load an alternate configuration. This will pop up a file requester in which you can select the drawer that AWeb should read its new settings from.

Snapshot windows

Saves the current positions of the first browser window and all requester windows. This function also saves the zoomed size of the first browser window.

Help menu

The Help menu offers you more information.

Documentation: Shows the AWeb manual in this window.
AWeb home page: Retrieves the AWeb Home page. A TCP stack must be running, and you must be connected to the Internet for this function to work.

ARexx menu

The ARexx menu offers functions to start ARexx macros.

Start ARexx macro...: Opens a standard file requester. After you select an ARexx macro, that macro will be executed with the original window as default port.
Not available in the demo version
User-configurable items: The remainder of this menu contains a list of ARexx macros you can configure yourself.
Not available in the demo version

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